Homelessness Archives - Queen's Journal

Hockey Helps the Homeless raises more than $30,000 for Kingston Youth Shelter

Written on March 13, 2020. Posted in News.

Queen’s Hockey Helps the Homeless raised more than $30,000 for the Kingston Youth Shelter at its annual tournament on Feb. 28. Andrew Worling (ArtSci ’21), co-chair of Queen’s Hockey Helps the Homeless, called the event a success in an interview with The Journal. “It has been our smoothest-run...

Kingston leaves homeless women in the cold

Written on November 16, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

A person sleeping on a bench or asking for change doesn’t capture the full scope of homelessness. It’s largely an invisible issue, spread over rural and urban areas alike and often masked by persistent stereotypes. But this vulnerability persists for a variety of reasons, especially for women in...

Canadian homeless connect through radio

Written on February 27, 2015. Posted in News.

Over the course of 15 hours, CFRC played host to the stories of homeless people from across Canada, taking their experiences and broadcasting them from Kingston to a national audience in a quest to raise awareness. Kingston became the third Canadian city to host the annual Homelessness Marathon from...

City not sleeping on shelter issue

Written on March 21, 2014. Posted in News.

In order to reduce homelessness and focus on permanent housing, the City of Kingston is cutting shelter beds. On March 14, the City released a public notice stating their plan to reduce homelessness through the implementation of a 10-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan. Over the next three years, shelters...

On the outside looking in

Written on November 22, 2013. Posted in Features.

Eleven years ago, Scott fell off a 12-storey roof. It happened in London, Ont., where he’d taken a covert roofing job to compensate for a lack of hours and pay with a landscaping company. He survived the plummet, but shattered his entire left ribcage, smashed his solar plexus and cracked his left...

Homeless for five days

Written on March 16, 2012. Posted in News.

Once youths turn 16, the government of Canada is no longer obliged to provide them with financial aid. It’s one reason why 13 Queen’s law students have chosen to live outside without any resources to take part in the national campaign dubbed 5 Days for the Homeless. Twenty-four other Canadian universities...

Would-be homeless policy problematic

Written on January 27, 2012. Posted in Editorials.

A paper commissioned by the University of Calgary suggests that paying people who own or rent property would combat homelessness. The proposal, authored by Columbia University economist and professor Brendan O’Flaherty, is rife with flaws and would do little to alleviate the underlying causes of homelessness. The...

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Hockey Helps the Homeless raises more than $30,000 for Kingston Youth Shelter

Kingston leaves homeless women in the cold

Canadian homeless connect through radio

City not sleeping on shelter issue

On the outside looking in

Homeless for five days

Would-be homeless policy problematic

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