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Advocates for unhoused people in Toronto presented their own winter homelessness plan on Friday, saying the city isn't doing enough to address the need for safe indoor spaces for people who have nowhere to go.
Toronto city council will ask the federal government in a letter on Thursday to open its armouries immediately for use as emergency shelters for refugee claimants as winter approaches.
Faith leaders are calling on the city to open more spaces in its warming centres this winter, saying unhoused people should not be shut out in the cold in Toronto.
Cathy Crowe is calling for a "wartime effort on homelessness" as she closes the book on a career that has lasted decades.
An average of 40 people a night were told there was no bed available for them in Toronto homeless shelters in the last year and a half, newly released city data shows.