The number of homeless people jumped from fewer than 8,000 in 2021 to more than 15,000 in late 2024.

The Toronto youth homelessness sector is issuing an urgent call for youth-specific interventions and prevention efforts to address the growing youth homelessness ...

The slaying occurred in downtown Toronto. A homeless man was identified Tuesday as the victim of a fatal "swarming" attack police allege was committed by eight teenage girls in downtown Toronto last ...

Toronto authorities have identified the homeless man stabbed and beaten to death in a “swarming” attack carried out by a group of teenagers. Ken Lee, 69, was violently attacked just after midnight on ...

According to a recent City of Toronto report, in October 2024, there were an estimated 15,400 people experiencing homelessness in the city — more than double the approximately 7,300 homeless in April ...

Covenant House says with more than 1,500 youth facing homelessness on a given night, more action must be taken to curb and ...

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Harris was inspired to lend a helping hand after he helped former Mighty Ducks star Shaun Weiss, who also struggled with ...

Recently released data from Toronto Public Health (TPH) revealed that 216 people experiencing homelessness died in the city of Toronto in 2021. The annual death toll among the city’s homeless has more ...

On Jan. 5, the temperature in Toronto set a record low at -23 degrees Celsius, or -9.4 Fahrenheit. Environment Canada advised those outside to cover up; at that temperature frostbite occurs within ...

The rapid spread of Omicron across Canada is taking an especially terrible toll on the homeless population, with major outbreaks reported in shelters in Toronto and British Columbia in recent weeks.