Fresh Tracks: Hunting down Edmonton s newest music edmontonjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edmontonjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A temporary 24-7 homeless shelter at the Edmonton Convention Centre closed Friday morning, reducing overnight capacity across the shelter system by 300 spaces.
Tipinawâw, Cree for sheltered from the outside elements, has been operating out of the Downtown convention centre since October to provide more space during the COVID-19 pandemic and provided meals and essential services to more than 600 people daily as well as 300 overnight sleep spaces. The shelter cost $13.9 million, with $2.5 million in funding from the city. With its closure, capacity in the shelter system has been cut and residents will need to find somewhere else to go.
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A temporary 24-7 homeless shelter at the Edmonton Convention Centre closed Friday morning, reducing overnight capacity across the shelter system by 300 spaces.
Tipinawâw, Cree for sheltered from the outside elements, has been operating out of the Downtown convention centre since October to provide more space during the COVID-19 pandemic and provided meals and essential services to more than 600 people daily as well as 300 overnight sleep spaces. The shelter cost $13.9 million, with $2.5 million in funding from the city. With its closure, capacity in the shelter system has been cut and residents will need to find somewhere else to go.
Community members raise questions over police response to former Rossdale homeless camp edmontonjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edmontonjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Clean up of tents, needles and debris at the Rossdale green space that morphed into a large homeless camp last year cost the City of Edmonton an estimated $50,000 to date and remains fenced off to the public for the “foreseeable future.”
Camp Pekiwewin popped up near Re/Max Field last July to provide vulnerable Edmontonians a place to stay. As time passed, hundreds of people called the camp home as tents and other temporary shelters were erected.
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