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After an out-of-the-blue phone call, it took just two weeks for two of Montreal’s most dependable non-profit community groups to hatch a plan to feed up to 370 homeless people a night, every night, until a temporary emergency shelter at Hôtel Place Dupuis downtown closes.
The first of 2,600 snack boxes per week, sourced, cooked and packaged by the Depot Community Food Centre, arrived at the shelter run by the Welcome Hall Mission last Wednesday, ensuring that vulnerable Montrealers seeking a warm bed also have something in their stomachs.
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MONTREAL This week, amid an outcry over the policing of homeless Montrealers sparked by a man’s death, one of the city’s biggest day shelters laid off 11 of its front-line staff then promptly hired some security guards. The guards aren’t meant to replace front-line workers, says the director of the Accueil Bonneau shelter. But the move, according to many in the sector, is part of a longer-term trend that has accelerated during the pandemic and won’t be going away afterwards, and it has many social workers worried. “This clientele often already has a bad relationship with people in positions of authority,” such as police and security guards, said one recent worker at Accueil Bonneau.
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Christian Villeneuve steeled his resolve Tuesday for a moment one of his friends didn’t live to see.
Clutching his health information form, he inched his way through a lineup of homeless Montrealers ready to roll up their sleeves to receive the vaccine against the coronavirus.
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Villeneuve, 42, said he knows several people who have contracted COVID-19 within the last few months. Most survived. But one didn’t make it.
“I’m nervous. But it’s preferable to get it than not have it,” he said. “I hope it helps.”
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