Status Updates From Homelessness: How To End Th...

Comedian George Burns once said that it was "too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are all busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." Every cabby I ask has the solution to the housing crisis: "Why don't they just roll up their sleeves and get some housing built?!" Answering the cabby's question is painfully easy in most Canadian communities today: no one is charged with the responsibility.

My ancestors would not have survived without the generosity of the Mi'kmaq during that long, cold winter,but homeless people today are left to die in the Canadian winter...Two centuries later, descendants of the generous Mi'kmaq can be seen huddling over vents in the middle of downtown sidewalks, vents that discharge excess steam from overheated buildings.