'Have a heart': Advocates, Health minister urge Yellowknifers to support downtown shelter
CBC
If just one resident, one business or the city of Yellowknife opposes the "only" suitable proposed day shelter location, unhoused residents displaced by the latest COVID-19 outbreak will be cut off from the services they need most, according to Health Minister Julie Green.
In an open letter published Monday, and anticipating public opposition, Green implored residents to support the establishment of a temporary day shelter by October in the former Legion building on Franklin Ave.
"There are no other options left to explore," wrote Green.
She said Yellowknifers should show the same solidarity when it comes to the shelter, as they did when they marched this summer in honour of children who died at residential school.
At a march in June, a woman who is homeless in Yellowknife, wept into the microphone about her daily struggle to find a place. The premier and several support people encircled the woman, consoling her.
By August, she was still sleeping rough.
"Now is not the time to look away from the homeless, the grieving, the addicted. Now is the time for concrete acts of reconciliation," Green said in her letter.
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