In today’s print edition of @WinnipegNews there’s a project that’s been a year in the making.
On and off for the past 12 months, my colleague John Woods and I have been doing our best to document life on the streets of our city.
On and off for the past 12 months, my colleague John Woods and I have been doing our best to document life on the streets of our city.
John is a very fine photographer and his pictures alone are worth the price of admission.
With the writing, I’ve tried to, at times, zoom in and examine the lives of people experiencing homelessness under a microscope; at times take a step back and look at the big picture.
With the writing, I’ve tried to, at times, zoom in and examine the lives of people experiencing homelessness under a microscope; at times take a step back and look at the big picture.
There will be nine chapters in this series.
You can read chapter one here. It’s a feature on a young couple living on the streets of Winnipeg who we spent last New Year’s Eve with.
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You can read chapter one here. It’s a feature on a young couple living on the streets of Winnipeg who we spent last New Year’s Eve with.
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You can read chapter two here.
It's a profile of Chris Hauch, who wrote two ethnographic studies on life on the Main Street strip from 1976-1984. What Hauch came to realize is much of what had been written about homeless people in Winnipeg was wrong.
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It's a profile of Chris Hauch, who wrote two ethnographic studies on life on the Main Street strip from 1976-1984. What Hauch came to realize is much of what had been written about homeless people in Winnipeg was wrong.
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Chapter three looks at early efforts by the City of Winnipeg to dismantle homeless encampments.
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Chapter four looks at the work of the Salvation Army's outreach team during the early stages of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Chapter five returns to Desirae down at one of the camps off the Main Street strip.
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Chapter six looks at later efforts by the City of Winnipeg to dismantle homeless encampments.
It also looks at the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples among the homeless and how this can't be untwined from Canada's history of colonialism.
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It also looks at the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples among the homeless and how this can't be untwined from Canada's history of colonialism.
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Chapter seven is now live too. It looks at the work of the Love Lives Here mission, which twice a week serves free meals out of a trailer down on the strip.
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