Photo: Alain Décarie INVISIBLE HOMELESSNESS Out in the regions, you seldom see homeless people begging at the corner. But they really are there, and their cases are more and more complicated. Since the deinstitutionalization of hospitals, people with mental health […]

Photo: Alain Décarie PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO FIT THE MOULD One day not long ago, Geneviève woke up on a park bench, her stomach growling, with not a clue where she could go. She was spending her nights hanging […]

Photo: Jacques Nadeau Feeding the soul The housing crisis in aboriginal communities has amplified the problem of homelessness in urban settings. First Nations people come to big cities hoping to find better economic conditions, but like all visible minorities, they […]

Photo: Alain Décarie ALTERNATIVE HEALTH-CARE PRACTICES It’s Friday evening. The sun has just gone down. Marc-André Coallier is helping nurse Louis-Thomas Moisan restock the mobile clinic with sterile materials. Many homeless people don’t have health-care cards and don’t go to […]