Melanie Vautour is the executive director of Fresh Start, a non-profit organization that overseas the tent encampment on Waterloo Street in Saint John, N.B.
About a dozen unhoused people camping on Waterloo Street, including Robin Monks, whose tent was set on fire Sunday night, are hoping for safer temporary shelter when a pilot program launches in a few days. But not everyone is happy about the news.
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A private French school set to open its doors in Saint John's Market Square in September is no longer going ahead. Lycee International announced it is abandoning the project which would have been part of the Don Bosco network of schools due to total construction costs surpassing initial estimates by 50 per cent.
Less than three weeks after a homeless Saint John man lost his life in a tent fire, another is in hospital after losing his left leg below the knee and half of his right foot to severe frostbite.