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As a drop-in for homeless women prepares to open in the Old East Village, Councillor Susan Stevenson said questions about the facility remain unanswered. “There was no information on the services that were going to be offered, the timelines, or how the $650,000 is going to be spent,” Stevenson said during Tuesday’s council meeting.

An hour-long question period failed to provide a trio of councillors many of the answers they were seeking.

One month after the Winter Response to Homelessness officially launched, expanded shelter spaces in place, but not always able to accommodate the number of Londoners seeking warmth.

City hall finally provided a rationale why specific city parks were selected to be on a list where homeless encampments are proactively removed.

Not permitted to set up tents in more than a dozen core area parks, some Londoners are choosing riskier locations on steep riverbanks and in wooded areas. The removal of encampments from city parks has become more compassionate following August’s hunger strike by The Forgotten 519 outside city hall, but encampments are restricted in a small number of parks.

When The London Free Press began asking questions in February about the change in management of a winter homeless shelter, city hall manager Kevin Dickins…

City council is being urged to lobby the provincial and federal governments to extend special funding aimed at addressing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The governors of New York, Maine and New Hampshire have issued orders mobilizing teams of the National Guard to assist hospitals and other health care facilities with managing the present record surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

A short distance from some of London’s highest priced real estate, an all too common scene played out in an encampment beneath a bridge.

Prime minister Boris Johnson's UK government has made a Plan B for dealing with rising cases of Covid this winter - but was is it?