Halifax Indigenous homeless shelter not properly serving community, to close Dec. 31 – The Star

HALIFAX – A Halifax shelter for Indigenous people experiencing homelessness will close at the end of the month because it’s not properly serving the city’s Indigenous community, the centre’s administration said Tuesday.

Some of the shelter’s staff, however, say the closure is a response to a unionization drive that was recently started.

Pamela Glode-Desrochers, executive director of the shelter’s parent organization, the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre, said that despite attempts to outfit the facility with the appropriate cultural resources, the majority of the shelter’s residents are non-Indigenous.

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