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Renovations at The Lighthouse

DeeAnn Mercier takes you on a tour of the renovations that are ongoing at The Lighthouse Supported Living right now.  Mental Health Services is providing funding for nine rooms to be renovated and then used for long term mental health beds.   It will provide increased stability for the residents which saves the system a lot [...]

Choosing to be homeless

A photographer tells the story of why her father chose to live on the streets on Montreal But the calm didn’t last. They moved to the country north of Montreal after college. Phil’s illness began to creep back. He started hearing voices, and his behaviour grew volatile and aggressive. He couldn’t hold down a job, [...]

Randy Quaid has lost it

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are on the run and living out of their Prius in Canada People started noticing there was something seriously amiss with the Quaids about three years ago, when Randy left the Broadway-bound musical Lone Star Love and was then banned for life from the Actors’ Equity Association, the stage [...]

It’s still chilly out there

I posted this over at the Salvation Army Community Centre’s blog and I thought I would link to it here.  There has been a lot of media reports about guys who are sleeping outside in –40 below weather.  I know some of them personally and the guys do have options for places to sleep.  If [...]