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Winnipeg Free Press Main Street Project offers warm place for city's homeless, but pandemic creates new level of agony By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 Save to Read Later When the temperature drops below -30 C overnight, Sean will be safe and warm inside Main Street Project, having traded a bus shack for a shelter bed two nights ago after the cold snap descended on southern Manitoba. Winnipeg Free Press When the temperature drops below -30 C overnight, Sean will be safe and warm inside Main Street Project, hav...

MONTREAL — The Quebec government came under pressure Monday to ease lockdown restrictions, from the opposition who called for the homeless to be curfew exempt, to regional mayors who said the rules are unjustified in their towns.

When the curfew was put in place, the Legault government insisted police would use tolerance and common sense when enforcing the decree, especially when it came to homeless people. But Monday, lawyers from the Mobile Legal Clinic brought forward the case of a 38-year-old homeless man, who suffers from alcohol addiction and schizophrenia. Lawyers said the man was given two $1,500 tickers last week, and in one case, he had to go to Sainte-Thérèse because no shelter in the city would take him because of his addiction. When he arrived in Sainte-Thérèse, lawyers said police arrested him, a...

MONTREAL -- How much do homeless Montrealers really need to fear being fined? This week, in the wake of a homeless man's death while he may have been hiding from police, Quebec Premier François Legault said that when it comes to the province's COVID-19 curfew, he trusts police to use common sense and not ticket the homeless for being out after 8 p.m. "They won’t give them tickets for fun," he said Thursday. "Their responsibility is to help [the homeless] and guide them to a shelter." Whether or not they're using those guidelines right now, however, a study released this month from the...

  MONTREAL -- Over 100 new beds for Montreal's homeless will be made available in an East End community centre as of Friday afternoon. In a statement jointly issued by Quebec junior minister of health and social services Lionel Carmant, who is also minister responsible for the Montreal region Chantal Rouleau and Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante, it was announced that 112 beds for homeless men and women would be placed in the Pierre-Charbonneau Centre. The centre will be open seven days a week, 24 hours per day starting at 4 p.m. The emergency shelter will be managed by CAP St-Barnabe and Ca...