Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Andrea Woo
Publication Date: June 19, 2025 - 21:28
Victoria city council endorses plan to address homelessness, addiction and mental illness
June 19, 2025
The City of Victoria has endorsed a community safety and well-being plan aimed at tackling the complex and “entangled challenges” of homelessness, addiction and mental illness playing out on city streets.The report contains dozens of recommendations aimed at all levels of government across eight sectors, including housing, health care, service delivery, and policing and justice.
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This story was originally published by our friends at Narratively as “Dozens of Infants Died Mysteriously at a Top Children’s Hospital—I Wanted to Know Why.” It has been reprinted here with permission.
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