Human Needs Task Force News Today

Read the conclusions that city of Ottawa auditor general Nathalie Gougeon reached in her investigations into the handling of the Freedom Convoy.

“We wouldn’t have gotten out of it with just the isolation measures we had.”

An Ottawa women's emergency shelter has just over three weeks to find a new home as the lease on its current location is getting cut short.

  OTTAWA -- The city of Ottawa says all parties are working "tirelessly" to find a new temporary location for an emergency shelter for women, after the lease for its current location at the University of Ottawa was cut short by a month. Cornerstone Housing for Women says it has three weeks to find an interim site for its emergency shelter, or more than 100 vulnerable residents will lose their shelter. The shelter opened its site at the University of Ottawa in December 2020 after the city ...