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Hots Docs Q&A: Filmaker Explores Troubling Reality of Homeless People Who Own Dogs

Hots Docs Q&A: Filmaker Explores Troubling Reality of Homeless People Who Own Dogs Quebec-based director Hélène Choquette’s A Dog’s Life follows homeless people who own dogs — photo courtesy of GAT PR. Of the hundreds of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs documentary film festival – happening in Toronto April 28 to May 8 – few will be as…

Music Exec Expands CITYPAK Project To Help Homeless Survive Street

Music Exec Expands CITYPAK Project To Help Homeless Survive Street The CITYPAK Project distributed 2,000 bags to Austin's homeless, including these four people, last March in partnership with SXSW and the city's music community — photo courtesy of CITYPAK Project.Ron Kaplan, co-founder of the Monterey International booking agency — representing such top…

Event Gives Homeless and At-Risk Eye Exam, Haircuts, Foot Care & More

Event Gives Homeless and At-Risk Eye Exam, Haircuts, Foot Care & More Dental screening is among the services offered at Homeless Connect Edmonton and the upcoming Homeless Connect Toronto event — photo courtesy of HCT.The homeless and vulnerably housed can use all the help they can get. So the opportunity to tap into multiple social services such as…

Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls

Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls (L to R): Joshua Stern, Daley Douglas, Joye Dunkley, Nicole Stiletto and Neddy Nyce outside Toronto's Salvation Army Maxwell Meighen Center during the Kool Kicks shoe drive initiative.For most people, January is a time of resolutions though few survive past the end of the month. But there is one thing folks…