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A memorial service in Montreal's 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, “everyone else has a place to go … We have forgotten people who are out on the street.”
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 Montreal's 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 Native Women's Shelter of Montreal Executive Director Nakuset, referring to the Innu man who froze ...
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 answers and then send them by email to our editorial team. At the end of the month, any students who p...