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Homeless woman chooses bus shack over refuge in shelters, despite 'brutal, brutal' cold


Posted: Feb 12, 2021 11:34 PM CT | Last Updated: February 13
Kathleen Napokesik stays in bus shelters to keep warm, sometimes sleeping there overnight. During the day, she and her friends ride Winnipeg Transit to escape the brutal cold.(Gary Solilak/CBC)
Armed with a pile of blankets and a backpack on her lap everything she owns Kathleen Napokesik is taking shelter inside a freezing, unheated Winnipeg bus shack, even though she knows she might die there.
No income, no place to live, just homeless … and it hurts. Especially being in a wheelchair, she said.
The 47-year old has a spinal cord injury and trouble moving her legs. It s –30 C, but she and her nephew have already spent several hours huddled together inside the bus shelter on Portage Avenue in front of the Mountain Equipment Co-Op.   ....

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