Shelters for the homeless: “Why do we have to act urgently instead of planning?”
The cold spell is causing an increase in traffic in homeless shelters, which have had a busy and difficult weekend.
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At Mission St-Michael's in Montreal, the number of places has been increased and is now 48 due to the weather, and the shelter was full this weekend.
All the shelters in the city therefore joined forces to find out in real time which places had places available.
"The community has come together to be able to help customers, and I think we manage to do well, but it's complicated," explained to LCN the director general of the St-Michael's Mission, Chantal Laferriere.
However, the shuttle servi...
