Yellowknife tries to get numbers on homelessness
Yellowknife tries to count homeless
Poverty
Trying to feed hungry Yellowknife children when school doors close
Some schools in Yellowknife have breakfast and lunch programs for their students.
First Nation water woes caught in Ottawa, Manitoba jurisdictional limbo
Last week APTN National News aired a story on internal federal government documents that suggest there is no plan to increase the funding to provide proper plumbing and housing on some of Manitoba’s poorest reserves.
Winnipeg has a predator problem
In the wake of the shocking attack on Rinelle Harper, the head of an organization that works with at-risk youth says Winnipeg has a serious problem with sexual predators and warns of more victims to come.
Baby boom causes Long Point First Nation housing crunch
There’s a housing crisis in northern Quebec.
Poverty continue to afflict First Nation children
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a troubling report this week.
Consensus on tackling poverty hard to come by in Nunavut
Nunavut’s political system is built around consensus.
'Homeless' Dave begins hunger strike over Vancouver poverty
In one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods, a former homeless man stopped eating food last Friday at noon.
In Pelican Narrows chief makes $300,000, others lack running water, 6 children crammed into one home
Hundreds of kilometres to the west of Ottawa in North-Eastern Saskatchewan, a housing crisis on one small reserve has citizens frustrated and desperate.