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Resilience Montreal will stay close to Cabot Square, as the day shelter has secured the funding it needs to purchase a building in the area.
Citing an urgency to act, Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière announced on Monday that the province was giving the shelter $3 million. Resilience will get another $1.5 million from the Fondation du Grand Montréal.
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The shelter serves a clientèle of homeless people predominantly from the Indigenous community, most of whom tend to stay near Cabot Square. It has been operating out of a former Japanese restaurant on Ste-Catherine St. W at Atwater Ave., but the lease on that space is due to expire in the spring.
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Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he would have liked to have seen more flexibility on the part of Premier François Legault, when it comes to the curfew and homeless people.(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
The federal government is adding its voice to those calling on Premier François Legault to relax how curfew rules are applied to homeless people in Montreal, after a man died over the weekend, just steps away from a shelter that was closed for the night.
On Wednesday, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said the death could have been avoided and joined Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante in asking Quebec to be more lenient with the city s homeless population.
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QUEBEC - The Quebec government introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow relatives of Indigenous children who disappeared or died after being admitted to health-care facilities to obtain information about their loved ones.
Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafreniere speaks at a news conference after he was sworn in on October 9, 2020 at the legislature in Quebec City. Quebec s Indigenous Affairs Minister is tabling a bill that would allow relatives of Indigenous children who disappeared or died after being admitted to health-care facilities to obtain information about their loved ones. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot