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Outreach workers will be checking on homeless campers and agencies are distributing warm winter coats, hot drinks and even fire extinguishers as temperatures drop and brisk winds bring . . .

“This allows everybody to safely support Our Place by taking a walk around their own neighbourhood,” said Julian Daly, executive director at Our Place. “This walk allows the community to come together and show how much they care about the most vulnerable members of society.” The walk in the cold gives people an opportunity to experience what so many people without homes endure every night, Daly said. “On the coldest nights, we try to get as many people indoors as possible. But, ­u...

Mayor Maja Tait called donors’ ­generosity a “virtual hug for the ­community.” “Sooke is a resilient community, with so much heart,” she said. “ As we look ahead to a new year, what a way to show heart with residents supporting each other through this campaign and contributions to the Sooke Food Bank.” •To learn more about the Sooke Food Bank, go to foodbanksooke.org. Find how how you can take action to help British Columbians living with dementia during Alzheimer’s Awarenes...

Boudreau’s neighbour, contractor Reece Tibbitts, built the structure, which is modeled after the free little libraries dotted around Victoria that invite residents to take a book and leave a book. Boudreau is hoping people who have something to spare will leave non-perishable food items, while those in need will find some help filling their cupboards. Particularly useful are peanut or nut butters, canned fish, dried or canned beans, rice, pasta, oats, baby formula and baby food. “It’s ...

A couple of volunteers will be on site at the intersection of Yates and Wharf streets to light candles commemorating lives lost, and while people can’t gather for an event, they’re invited to call in to ask that a candle be lit in honour of ­someone they’ve lost. Abells, who has volunteered with the committee for a decade, said it was important to find a way to commemorate people despite pandemic restrictions, noting the life expectancy for people who experience chronic homelessness in...

Building on the success of last year’s gift card program, Cool Aid is again offering its Everyone Deserves Joy program, which allows people to buy online gift cards for people in need. “The people who serve, especially those staying in a shelter, they just have so little,” said Lori Angelini, Cool Aid’s manager of philanthropy. “So getting these gift cards, knowing there there are people out there who do care about them, is very meaningful.” She said the gift cards are an importa...

And also, i understand when people say okay, dont insult the voter. dont you have to have some tough love and tell people, hey, know youre wrong. people are lying to you and youre believing crap thats not real. >> its a come to jesus memo. we need to have with people. trump said it on tv. white house are leased a transcript. showing that he did this. and mick mulvaney chief of staff admitted it. on tv. get over it. and still people have the audacity to look at us and lie to us. and i dont know i...

Message. im not sure she solved that problem. she had good moments in the debate. she had a bad moment which was the yes, we can. to joe biden about guns. it was inappropriate and the laugh was inappropriate. she had good moemtds including the last answer she gave. whats missing is the coherent message she drives throughout. and you see it in elizabeth warren. you dont in kamala yet. >> i want to go back to chief political correspondent. and cnn anchor with cory booker. >> thank you. thank you s...

You drank the cool aid. ticket sales are down. people are tired of these remakes. lets be honest. >> lets see by the end of this year, by the end of december, lets talk again. >> well have the receipts. thank you, guys. still ahead, the racial divide and 2020. is the presidents latest controversy surrounding the squad an attempt to rev up his base. whats behind it? plus mysterious murders of a couple found on the side of a canadian road. one of them an american woman. f canadian road. one of...

Thats what theyre doing. not what hes doipg. >> hes making it crystal clear to anybody that hasnt drunk the cool aid that is he is focussed. im glad youre focusing on the lies hes telling about the women. with focus on the racist statements. go back where you came from and the chants. yourt right hes smuggling in lies and are e peting them. and everyone repeating them and spreading the narrative for them. that the women hate america and they think that israel is evil. and support al qaeda. these...