More funding is desperately needed, as Winnipeg’s women’s shelters are exceeding their capacity. A UNBC professor receives a $50,000 grant to create a women’s cyber self-defense toolkit. The New Westminster crisis response project wants to tackle homelessness, mental health and substance abuse head on. Queens County fishermen head out early on Dumping Day, the first day of the Lobster Season! And the Canada Post strike is affecting many Canadian businesses, including Pontiac’s community newspapers.
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