News

A Toronto city councillor is slamming the Crown corporation that helps sell federally-owned properties for trying to sell a prime parcel of downtown land without ensuring the redevelopment will be used to create new affordable housing. Coun. Joe Cressy is now trying to make sure the Canada Lands Company pumps the brakes on any sale of its property at 200

For years, Canadians have watched our cities climb the wrong kinds of global lists – the ones ranking the most expensive cities in the world to live in. Our fears have only been fuelled by our daily experiences: people bounced from rental to rental because of landlords’ or investors’ bottom-line desires. We’ve worried that even rental housing has grown out

After Smith found out she was pregnant in October 2018, she entered a women’s shelter that referred her to a recovery house for young moms in Kelowna. Her son Taysen was born healthy on June 9. She is now in recovery and devoted to caring for her child. She has reconnected with family, grateful they never gave up on her. She

Vancouver’s mayor says its time for Ottawa to step in as a growing homeless camp in the city’s Downtown Eastside has ignited safety concerns and calls for social housing. The Oppenheimer Park encampment has been growing for more than a year. RCMP advised the public to steer clear of the area following a shooting near the park last week. While

Three Carleton University research projects on recruiting global talent, ending youth homelessness and increasing the well-being of rural communities have been supported at almost $200,000 each by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Carleton’s Martin Geiger in the Department of Political Science, Jacqueline Kennelly in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Paul Peters, Department of Health Sciences, received Partnership Development Grants. “The social sciences and