Edmonton's winter can be cold and uncomfortable for anyoner but for the homeless they can be tragic and deadly as has already been proved this month. At least 3 homeless people died in early November and there may be others whose deaths were not recorded.
There is widening gap between the number of homeless people and the total of shelter spaces which means 1000+ people are have no shelter even on the coldest nights.
"Don’t let anybody try to tell you that an investment of a few million dollars in shelter space is doing anything about the catastrophe of homelessness" says Jim Gurnett, of the Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness.