Community members in Saint John, N.B., say they are devastated after two people died in a tent fire at a homeless encampment on Monday the second and third unhoused people to be killed by fire this year in the same area.
A moment of silence was held for Peter ‘Evan’ McArthur in Saint John’s Kings Square on Tuesday night, with about 300 people attending a vigil calling for immediate action on the city’s homelessness problem.