You would think that in a city like Ottawa, when a vulnerable citizen faces a crisis and loses their housing, there would be a system in...

Some people have a policy to only give food to panhandlers. Some even get offended if the panhandler rejects the offer of food. For these...

Last week, I was doing outreach downtown when I came across Ben. Ben is one of the “oldtimers” – one of several men who have been on the...

Shane’s Story is a eight episode blog post where Shane tells her story in her own words.  Each week in December, on Mondays and Thursdays...

This episode of ‘Stories from the Street’ is a little different, because it is not a verbatim story told by a street-friend. Instead,...

The Street Outreach team met Bess and Ken near Confederation Park near the first of September.  They came up to us asking for sleeping...