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Less than a month after its executive director was placed on leave, five members of the senior leadership team at Lighthouse Supported Living have been let go.

OTTAWA — Staff at shelters and homeless agencies are struggling to support people living on the streets as the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant sweeps through communities.

OTTAWA - Staff at shelters and homeless agencies are struggling to support people living on the streets as the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant sweeps through communities.

Article content Saskatchewan’s government and a Saskatoon non-profit are considering offering drug-checking services after repeated reports of powerful opioids being laced into substances like crystal meth, sometimes with fatal outcomes. Saskatchewan Mental Health and Addictions Minister Everett Hindley said the government will incorporate drug-checking services into mobile harm reduction vans that it plans to base in Prince Albert, Saskatoon and Regina. We apologize, but this video has faile...

Pacik said local police officers, firefighters and staff from community organizations like Prairie Harm Reduction (PHR) — which operates the provinces only supervised drug consumption site — were among those to receive a shot. "To be able to share that gift with the folks that support our programs and our people here, it gives you such a wonderful feeling," she said. "Its just a win, win, win all around." Anna Pacik, the organization’s manager of fundraising and communications, says sha...

By News Room Photo Courtesy: CJWW Anna Pacik, Communications Manager at Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living, says if their staff didn’t have Naloxone training, they’d have seven dead people at the facility. A guest resident in Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living independent tower alerted staff that six people were overdosing and staff rushed to help. Pacik says at the same time there was a person in one of their supported programs who overdosed as well. A res...

Article content 2020 has been an unprecedented year. As it comes to a close, StarPhoenix staff take a look back at some of the top stories in the city and province. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Top stories of 2020: City Centre Inn shut down, evacuated amid pandemic Back to video The mayor called it “troubling.” The fire chief described it as “deplorable.” The Saskatoon Tribal Council chief likened it to a third-world country. All thr...

  SASKATOON -- As Saskatoon sinks into a deep cold with temperatures dipping to -35 degrees, shelters in the city including The Lighthouse Supported Living Centre are filling up fast.  According to the shelter, it’s nearing capacity since the drastic drop in temperatures. But the organization is just recovering from a COVID-19 outbreak last week, where it had to close for two weeks because of a spike in cases at the centre. The Lighthouse said because of COVID-19 distancing and capacity...