Quebec ramping up support for households, months ahead of moving day
April 23, 2024
With a housing crisis and low vacancy rates, Quebec’s minister responsible for housing has announced an additional $7.8 million to help support people looking for a new place to live.
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Nova Scotia’s failure to meet its deadline to halt new admissions of people with disabilities into large institutions has left some disability advocates feeling betrayed.After a landmark 2021 legal victory that found systemic discrimination against people with disabilities who are seeking housing in the community, the provincial government accepted a proposal to help people move out of institutions.Part of the five-year plan released in April 2023 called on the province to end new admissions to the facilities, known as adult residential centres and regional rehabilitation centres, by...
May 8, 2024 - 20:43 | Lyndsay Armstrong | The Globe and Mail
Another round of construction in the Glebe begins Thursday afternoon, when mostly familiar crews set out to build a unit fit for the road to respectability out of TD Place. Read More
May 8, 2024 - 20:31 | Don Brennan | Ottawa Citizen
The Upper Nicola Band in B.C.’s southern Interior says construction crews building a new community centre have discovered human remains.The band says in a news release that police were contacted immediately after crews unearthed the remains, which were determined to be “not recent.”It says construction was stopped after the discovery, and security was brought in to protect the remains at the site, located in the community of Quilchena, about 25 kilometres northeast of Merritt.
May 8, 2024 - 20:26 | | The Globe and Mail
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