Posted: Feb 10, 2021 12:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 10
Rose McLean shows where she keeps the hot meals she s made just hours earlier. Almost 70 brown bags are packed with hot turkey soup, chili and bannock.(Darin Morash/CBC)
Jeremy Duck fishes out a handful of candy bars and a Coca Cola from a small vending machine in a hotel lobby. This is his second night here. Before that, he was sleeping in a bus shelter at Confusion Corner.
Now he, and 14 other people who were previously living outside, are staying at a downtown Winnipeg hotel thanks to a small church group. I thought it was a little overwhelming for a group of strangers to offer that, said Duck.