This weekend marks the first cold weather stretch of the season in the province, and as colder and snowier weather is expected to arrive in B.C., concern grows for those without shelter to keep warm.
Janice Szostak lived on the streets of Vancouver for a decade, using the money she earned as a sex worker to buy drugs and alcohol. On Saturday she was handing out warm meals from behind a Plexiglas screen to the hundreds of people who showed up at the Union Gospel Mission for Thanksgiving dinner.