Residents in the Ritchie and Old Strathcona neighbourhoods are again trying to prevent Boyle Street Community Services from opening an overdose prevention site on 81st Avenue and 101st Street.
The City of Edmonton spent just over $9 million addressing the drug-poisoning crisis in 2023 including nearly 16,000 calls to overdose or drug poisoning incidents costs municipal leaders say shouldn’t be theirs to carry.
An Edmonton city councillor is asking for a review of public subsidy to the Katz Group after its Ice District development took a homeless agency to court as part of a funding dispute.
Edmonton Police Service tore down a camp Wednesday, as temperatures dropped below -20 C, and Mayor Amarjeet Sohi called on council to declare a ‘housing and houselessness emergency’
People who use Boyle Street Community Services in downtown Edmonton are concerned about the social agency's move to temporary, scatter locations while a new main centre is renovated.