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Quebec’s transport ministry gave homeless people 10 days to vacate an area of land beneath the Ville-Marie Expressway to make way for maintenance work, and come Thursday morning, police will push the remaining people to leave. “Where are we going to go? In the park up the street and freeze?” said Lucy Partridge, who lives under the suspended road.

This past Monday World Homeless Day was marked around the world. We heard emotional pleas from the public and promises from politicians. The pleas are, as always, heart-rending. The promises,

The warming tent in Cabot Square is being taken down and the city is looking for more permanent solutions to help the homeless according to Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s office.

The warming tent in Cabot Square, used as shelter by Montreals homeless population, is coming down -- and advocates want a permanent structure to take its place.

Raphael Andres death a year ago made headlines beyond Canada, but those who work with the homeless in Montreal say there still arent enough services to keep them out of danger. Another man froze to death last week.

A memorial service in Montreals Cabot Square celebrated the life of Elisapee Pootoogook, who was found dead after seeking shelter at a construction site.

  MONTREAL -- The warming tent for people without homes in downtown Montreal’s Cabot Square will remain until at least May 17, after which the city says it will need to come down. It’s the third time the city has extended the deadline for the tent, which provides after-curfew shelter to close to 700 homeless people per week. “It’s a community in and of itself,” said Mary Martin-Goodleaf, one of the tent’s fundraisers. “It’s become a safe haven.” After curfew, she says, �...

The warming tent that has called Cabot Square home since February will close in a week and advocates warn that there is nothing set to fill its role serving Montreals homeless community.

  MONTREAL -- After many hours spent organizing and preparing, Tuesday marked the first night the warming tent in Cabot Square was open. The tent provides a warm place with food and drink for the homeless between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. It is also staffed by social workers like Jenny Hervieux, who says on the first night some people stayed the night while others had something to eat and left. “With the death of Raphael Andre, it was a definite emergency that we needed to do something,” said...

News quiz for local students-Week 4 31 January 2021 at 17 h 33 min Reading time: 2 min Record Staff For weeks now The Record has been testing the knowledge of young people in the Townships to see who’s keeping up with the news. Over the next three months, The Record will publish a quiz each week with five questions related to news that appeared the week before in the paper. Students at the elementary and high school level are invited to read through the paper to find the an...