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Two daytime warming centres are expected to open in Victoria later this week if temperatures dip to zero or below as forecast. The centres are at James Bay United Church on Michigan Street and Sanctuary Youth Centre on Humboldt Street.
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Central Park will be closed to 24/7 camping as of Jan. 4, the City of Victoria announced Tuesday, following last week’s decision to move dozens of people without homes from the flooded park to the. . .
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the long-term future of the park, including whether to allow camping, will be decided by council. About 31 tents have been erected on wooden platforms inside a fenced area of the Royal Athletic Park parking lot. Since Dec. 23, volunteers with the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, the Greater Victoria Extreme Weather Protocol and the North Park Neighbourhood Association have been helping people without homes move to Royal Athletic Park, providing them with new sleeping bags, cots, tents and tarps. Jen Wilde, co-ordinator with the Extreme Weather Protocol, said B.C. Housing staff have been on site checking people’s housing applications and have found housing for one person.