People marched from the Peace and Friendship Park to the Central Library in Halifax on Tuesday to call for better treatment of Indigenous people in custody, justice reforms and a Mi'kmaw-led fatality inquiry into the deaths of Sarah Rose Denny and Peter Paul.
Temperatures across the province are expected to go into the negative double digits this weekend. Community organizations, shelters, and warming centers are ramping up their services so people without homes will have a place to go.
Housing support workers say a payment being offered to income assistance recipients in the wake of post-tropical storm Fiona is being denied to some unhoused people.
Many unhoused people across the province are starting over with no supplies or possessions after post-tropical storm Fiona devastated their camps. Some were able to get inside for shelter, but had to leave their belongings behind.
A British Columbia judge has overturned orders evicting people living at a homeless encampment in downtown Vancouver, which law experts and advocates say could carry precedent and lessons for Halifax.