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As Camp Marjorie enters its second month, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling on all levels of government to help the over 100 people who are sleeping in tents in Pepsi Park this fall.

More than 150 people rallied at two separate events in Regina and Saskatoon to demand changes to the government's new social assistance program.

A group opposing changes to Saskatchewan’s social assistance program protested in front of the Sturdy Stone building in Saskatoon on Wednesday morning.

As the first day of the fall legislature was set to begin, a group of protestors gathered outside to call on the province to reverse recent changes to social assistance.

A group opposing changes to Saskatchewan’s social assistance program protested in front of the Sturdy Stone building in Saskatoon on Wednesday morning.

”Some are staying in camping trailers or abandoned houses because there is nowhere for them to go," Shannon Harvey-Benoit said.

Saskatoon landlords and advocates say changes to Saskatchewan's social assistance program are fuelling a worsening homelessness crisis in the city.

We need less talk and more solutions from a government that cant quite seem to get its head around social issues worsened by this pandemic.

We need less talk and more solutions from a government that cant quite seem to get its head around social issues worsened by this pandemic.