Volunteers buy ice-fishing shelters for homeless people in Halifax during winter Story by The Canadian Press

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Volunteers buy ice-fishing shelters for homeless people in Halifax during winter
Story by The Canadian Press •

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HALIFAX — Volunteer groups have purchased ice-fishing shelters and a military tent to help homeless people brave the cold, wet weather in Halifax, which received its first significant snowfall of the season overnight Sunday.

Stephen Wilsack, who is a volunteer at the encampment across from Halifax City Hall, says he bought 10 tents himself and was reimbursed by "Good Samaritans." Ten other tents were donated, he said in an interview Monday.

"This is necessary at this time because there are unhoused individuals that are literally walking the streets with no shelter," he said in an interview Monday.

"This is by no means a solution. The bigger issue is that there's a housing shortage and this has to be addressed immediately. We have people in encampments all around Nova Scotia."

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1. MEANWHILE: Pair found dead in tent at Point Douglas park sparks fear for homeless as winter looms

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The deaths of two people in a Point Douglas park have neighbourhood residents, homeless advocates and government officials concerned about the toll the recent cold weather is having on the city's most vulnerable.

Paramedics were called to Joe Zuken Park following a report of two people in cardiac arrest in a tent Monday afternoon. By the time they arrived, the two people were dead.

The Office of the Medical Examiner is investigating the deaths, but a cause of death will not be released publicly because it is private medical information, a representative told CBC News on Tuesday.

Bernadette Smith, Manitoba's housing and homelessness minister, in tears following an announcement of government support for addictions services, said the provincial government is trying to expand outreach resources to people who aren't using shelters.

"It really was tough this morning, to see that people have lost their life to this," Smith told reporters.