Reading Time: 4 minutes Homeless make more than 26,000 visits to Alberta emergency departments each year
Tag: Homelessness
Should we still be celebrating Christmas?
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are many reasons why the answer is yes, but the best is that it gives us time to share with those in need
Tackling homelessness takes a community, says master’s grad
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sydney Stenekes credits her degree with giving her the confidence to engage with people of diverse cultures
Three potential solutions to Vancouver’s downtown east side
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fewer than 100 individuals generate almost all the burden placed on emergency services
Shedding light on injury-related ER visits for homeless
Reading Time: 4 minutes Detailed data will help community organizations in Alberta develop effective injury prevention programs
Pilot program offers hope for the homeless
Reading Time: 3 minutes May be a solution for most of the homeless people in Canada
Poverty, homelessness must be tackled by business
Reading Time: 5 minutes Not only does work help financially but it empowers people to take control of their lives and rise above poverty
Growing number of seniors lack support of family, friends
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unbefriended,’ these isolated seniors require more help to safeguard their access to basic daily needs, including companionship, and improve their quality of life
Vancouver’s bike-walk bias is costly and unjustified
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money budgeted for an elevated greenway for walkers and bikers should go to housing the homeless or easing traffic congestion
Blame the parents for suffering of children on the margins
Reading Time: 3 minutes Developmentally delayed children come into a failing welfare system due to irresponsible parents placing substance abuse ahead of their children