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As temperatures drop in Montreal, homeless shelters are overcrowded and warming stations — furnished with chairs, not beds — are at capacity. Unhoused people wander around subway stations, while others sleep standing up in 24-hour restaurants. Many are pitching tents to survive the winter.

An extreme cold snap that is forecast to bring a risk of frostbite and hypothermia with temperatures of -27 C Friday night has shelters in the Montreal area fearing for the vulnerable homeless population.

The family of a 93-year-old Quebec woman who died after spending about 36 hours inert on her balcony at a seniors' residence wants to see better surveillance for the elderly in such establishments.

A 93-year-old woman whose body was found in the snow outside a Montreal seniors residence on Sunday, January 20, 2019, was the mother of former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.

An Ontario software developer has become the first Canadian to successfully swim across the Strait of Magellan.

Family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women sobbed, fought back tears and expressed anger on Mon. Oct. 16, 2017, as they recounted what happened to their loved ones.

It was just a matter of time until an aslyum seeker died trying to illegally cross the border into Canada, the reeve of Emerson, Man, said on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.