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Lower Sackville neighbours band together to help residents of homeless encampment
Newly formed Gated Community Association started as a Facebook group and is now a registered non-profit For the people living in tents on a baseball field in Lower Sackville, N.S., a group of strangers has become a lifeline. Close to 40 tents are clustered around the field on Cobequid Road, providing shelter for people who have nowhere else to go. Some were recently evicted, some have been living in their vehicles for months and some have been on the streets for years. And as Halifax’s homeless population climbs beyond 1,000, members of the newlyRead more
Residents forced out of unsafe Edmonton condo building face uncertainty, financial strain
‘Thank God for the fire,’ engineer tells owners, tenants of Castledowns Pointe Residents of a northwest Edmonton condo building deemed at risk of collapse are demanding answers about how construction flaws went undetected for decades — and who can be held accountable. An evacuation order was issued this week at Castledowns Pointe at 12618 152nd Ave. after engineers investigating a March 2023 fire determined the entire four-storey structure lacked structural integrity. On Wednesday night, owners of the building’s 83 units attended an emergency meeting with property management and the engineersRead more
StatsCan to change how it counts non-permanent residents
Agency says it ‘stands behind its numbers’ estimating number of non-permanent residents Statistics Canada says it will publish new data tables next month estimating the number of non-permanent residents in the country after a major bank issued a report that said the agency may be undercounting them by more than one million. “StatsCan will publish new data tables on NPRs starting on September 27 that will be computed using a revised methodology and going back to 2021,” the agency said in a media statement. The new tables will be updated monthlyRead more
Residents near Gun Lake, B.C., ordered to evacuate immediately due to growing wildfire north of Pemberton
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District says order in place for areas surrounding Gun Lake and Lajoie Lake Regional officials say a wildfire north of Pemberton, B.C., is “critical” and have told residents they must evacuate immediately. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) says an evacuation order covers all properties around the Downton Lake fire in the Bridge River Valley north of Pemberton, which includes Gun Lake and Lajoie Lake near Gold Bridge, B.C. The blaze has more than doubled in size since Monday when flames raced eastward on the steep northern hillsides above Gun Lake and its more thanRead more