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Publication Date: July 21, 2023 - 20:05
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'Being on the street isn't easy': Arizona nonprofit helps homeless couple get first apartment
July 21, 2023
The couple who has been together for 8 years on the streets, escaped the Arizona heat and moved into their first apartment thanks to nonprofit Phoenix Rescue Mission.
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OTTAWA — Housing Minister Gregor Robertson tabled legislation on Thursday to establish the federal government’s new affordable housing agency, but acknowledged Build Canada Homes has no set targets on how many homes it will build.
“There aren’t top-line targets set for the number of homes to build,” said Robertson, during a press conference on Parliament Hill. “There is $13 billion allocated in Budget 2025 to Build Canada Homes and Canada Lands Co. combined that will be leveraged for maximum delivery of affordable housing.”
Build Canada Homes was introduced by the federal government...
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The Ontario NDP is demanding urgent changes to hospital funding after the Investigative Journalism Bureau reported hospital operating budgets were in deficit to the tune of more than half a billion dollars in the last fiscal year.
“When our hospitals cannot make payroll and have to go to the bank in order to be able to pay their employees, there’s something drastically wrong,” said France Gélinas, the NDP health critic, in a press conference Thursday. “The government knows this. The minister of health knows that. And yet, nothing is done. This is completely unacceptable.”
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