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Some Saskatoon residents question the proposed location for a new homeless shelter
Residents who live near the proposed site of a new homeless shelter in Saskatoon are raising concerns about the project. The city recently announced a permanent, 60-bed shelter is slated to be built on 31st Street E., just off Idylwyld Drive. The provincial government, which will be funding part of the development, finalized the decision to build the shelter there, based on a recommendation from the city. Ty Johnston lives in the neighbourhood next to the proposed new shelter site and is the communications coordinator for the Caswell Hill Community Association. He said the location was chosen without consultation with the association. "Regrettably, we don't have any legal recourse because the project doesn't affect any zoning laws and technically it falls outside of our neighbourhood boundary, although Caswell will obviously be the most impacted neighborhood." He said the community has raised some issues with the city and is still waiting to get some answers. The association is concerned about safety, security, health and wellness supports and longer-term solutions among other things. "We truthfully still have more questions than answers," Johnston said. Lesley Anderson, director of planning and development with the City of Saskatoon, said that they're working through feedback from the neighbourhood. "We've been working through this jointly with the province," Anderson said. "It will transition to the province leading the majority of the work regarding the construction and progress on that." The new shelter will be operated by the Mustard Seed, a Calgary-based, Christian, non-profit organization that operates in seven cities across Western Canada. It currently runs the temporary shelter on Pacific Avenue, which opened in April and will be replaced by the new shelter. According to city officials, there was no community consultation prior to the location recommendation being made to the province due to the sheer amount of sites being considered. However, some residents such as Joanna Latimer, who has lived in Caswell Hill for 15 years, believe that the province shouldn't have the final say on such matters. "Why are we not able to vote on this?" she asked. "Maybe the city should stop recommending sites that already have three homeless shelters … The city of Saskatoon does not just have a homeless population issue on the west side. There's also homeless people on the east side." The number of homeless people in Saskatoon has been increasing. A point-in-time count on Oct. 8, 2024, identified 1,499 people experiencing homelessness, nearly three times higher than the previous count in 2022, which identified 550. The city is working on developing a Saskatoon Homelessness Action Plan, which passed the committee stage last month and is expected to be considered for approval this fall. Brent Trask, the chief impact officer for the Mustard Seed, oversees all shelters, food services and housing programs for the organization. "We will be happy to serve wherever the city and the province and the citizens agree that would be appropriate," Trask said. "I think it's normal to have the service provider involved in community engagement in advance and we're definitely doing that."
CBC
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Norway House med student, part of new U of M class, hopes to help fill 'dire need' for northern docs
Social Sharing More than 100 of Manitoba's newest medical students were cloaked in fresh white coats on Wednesday, including one student from northern Manitoba who says his dream is to serve people in remote and undeserved communities in that region. "I want to eventually get back up north," said first-year University of Manitoba medical student Jesse McGregor, who is from the Norway House Cree Nation, after receiving his white coat during a ceremony in Winnipeg. "I want to be able to help the people that built me into who I am today." The ceremony is part of a time-honoured tradition that welcomes students to their first year at university's college of medicine. McGregor said he knows his home community, about 460 kilometres north of Winnipeg, and other northern communities often struggle to recruit and retain physicians, and he hopes to one day be part of the solution to that problem. "It is a community that is in dire need of adequate health-care services," McGregor said. "Over the years it's really improved, but I want to contribute to that overall mission of increasing adequate health care in the north." McGregor now joins 136 students set to begin studying medicine at the university, says Peter Nickerson, the dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and the Max Rady College of Medicine. "It's a very diverse class. They're from all over the province, and there's a few students from out of province," Nickerson said. Among the students getting their white coats Wednesday were 10 Indigenous students, said Nickerson, and he hopes to see those numbers rise in the coming years. "We always like to have more and more Indigenous students. We recognize that's a major gap that we have in our cohort," he said. "We know that the Indigenous population is around 20 per cent, so we expect to have 20 per cent of our students be Indigenous, so that we can actually serve the communities that we represent. "This class is putting us on that path that we're trying to achieve." Manitoba has struggled to attract and retain doctors. In 2023-24, the province saw a net increase of 133 physicians — the largest on record, according to Doctors Manitoba — but a report from the advocacy group, citing Canadian Institute for Health Information data, said the province still ranks second-last among physicians per capita in Canada, with 219 physicians per 100,000 residents. Nickerson said he hopes many students in the new cohort, who will begin classes next month, will stay and practise in this province once they graduate. "It's a long journey," he said. "But along the way they'll be seeing patients, providing care and being part of the communities here.
CTV News
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Teachers negotiating deal ahead of possible strike
Students are getting ready to return to school as teachers negotiate a new deal with the province, with the threat of a strike looming. CTV News Edmonton's Evan Kenny reports.
