On Monday, Union Gospel Mission fed 3,240 people Thanksgiving meals. Two days later (October 12), UGM released a major report on homelessness and housing insecurity, in conjunction with the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research of BC. Both events…
Raised in foster care, a child of alcoholic parents and residential school survivors, 47 year old Loretta John is no stranger to pain. But after overcoming alcoholism, addiction, homelessness and poverty, and after enduring decades of back-breaking labour work, Loretta…