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I have yet to see shelters like this in Toronto and Montreal. I am currently exploring Montreal and the city is ridiculously safe compared to Edmonton.
 
itom987 said:
I have yet to see shelters like this in Toronto and Montreal. I am currently exploring Montreal and the city is ridiculously safe compared to Edmonton.
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It's almost as if each city, and perhaps more specifically Province, has unique challenges and governance that may influence these things, and you're more likely to recognize and see the problem in your own city than when traveling. There are 49 shelters of varying types in central Toronto.
 
Possibly, but i walked in downtown montreal at night with my 14 yr old son and we did see homeless but none bothered us the way they do in Edmonton. At no time did i feel worried for myself and more importantly, my son. It was so safe that we saw women walking by themselves as well.
 
Larger cities have larger tourist areas which are often, but not always safer. In some cities low income areas are further away from the business core and tourist areas, or have been pushed further away.

Here the problems seem to seep into the downtown core more, partly due to proximity.
 
Was chatting with a couple senior staff members at Boyle this week. Sounds like internal plans are to be moved in and opening in September, but there was some skepticism that they will achieve that.
 
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‘We’re super excited’: Construction on King Thunderbird Centre halfway done

Boyle Street Community Services was excited to show off the progress on the King Thunderbird Centre Friday.
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Boyle Street Community Services was excited to show off the progress on the King Thunderbird Centre Friday.

The facility, also known as okimaw peyesew kamik, will replace the old Boyle Street downtown location as the agency’s home base.

“This is a project that has been almost a decade in us trying to find a purpose-built facility for our community,” said Aidan Inglis, the director of programs and partnerships at the centre.

“It’s somewhere where they’ll receive the services that they need and also feel proud and welcome to be in, and so we’re super excited.”

Friday, the construction at the new facility reached the halfway mark.

An important piece of the new centre is the Indigenous connection, as Inglis says many of the clients Boyle Streets serves are Indigenous.

“Having a building that is … inspired through ceremony, created through ceremony, where (clients) can see themselves, where we have access to cultural support services right when they come into the door, where we’re going to be able to provide that on a daily basis, that’s a big part of it,” he added.

“Also, we have more Western traditional (methods) that often come to mind when people think of healing, we have occupational therapists that are part of our dens, we have nurses and health teams that are on site.”

Some of the features of the new facility include an outdoor sweat lodge, firepits, a ceremony space, kitchens, showers and windows.

“Our past building ... it was an old banana ripening factory, so it wasn’t equipped for the work that we wanted to do, it didn’t have windows,” said Krysta Fitzgerald, the organization’s deputy executive director.



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