Newly-opened Queens Manor gives those with less a home

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Jack Knox shares takes a look at the newly opened Queen’s Manor and homelessness in Victoria.

Someone stole Wade Churcott’s stuff. Two big black garbage bags, crammed with everything he owned: clothes, a couple of books and four blankets – two to sleep under, two to place between himself and the bone-chilling concrete. He had stashed them in some bushes. Gone.

Read the article: Newly-opened Queens Manor gives those with less a home

Source: Times Colonist

Author: Jack Knox

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