| Two recently released studies say more money and resources need to be made available to solve Alberta’s homeless problem.
The first study took a deeper look into the costs of operating emergency homeless shelters and found that most organizations lack the resources to fully understand homelessness. One of the study’s conclusions is that more money should be made available specifically to collect information on homelessness in order to better understand it.
The other study found that increased co-ordination between social agencies should be encouraged to better serve homeless people with substance addictions.
The studies were released by the Calgary Homeless Foundation, the Edmonton Joint Planning Committee and the government of Canada.
Local activists are planning a march to mark the anniversary of last year’s G8 Summit in Kananaskis.
The activists say the G8 has done little to follow up on the promises it made to address poverty in Africa last year, and are marking the day because they say problems surrounding the G8 still need attention. They are also using the march to express their opposition to the economic policies of G8 countries and to highlight Calgary’s resistance to democratic protest.
The march will take place June 26 at 9 p.m. at Millennium Park.
A new bylaw that prevents people from smoking on outdoor public patios will be debated once again by city council after a rash of complaints from restaurant and bar owners.
Ald. Madeleine King convinced council to revisit the bylaw because in some cases it allowed smoking inside restaurants but not outside on the patio.
The smoking ban is part of a larger bylaw phasing out smoking in public places over the next five years.
Council has agreed to discuss the issue at a meeting on June 23.
The federal government is said to be readying approval to spend up to $1 billion to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
The money will be used to develop technology and a major campaign to encourage average Canadians to reduce the emissions in their own life. The government has already earmarked money for the cause, but few details on how it will be spent have emerged.
Two Calgary writers recently took home prizes from the Alberta Screenwriting Awards.
Gordon Pengilly won first place in the Feature or Movie of the Week category for his screenplay Drumheller or Dangerous Times. That work also won him an award recently from the Writers Guild of Canada.
Clem Martini also took home an award. He won third place in the category of Half Hour Television Special for Children for The Sitter.
The seventh annual awards come with cash prizes.
For the second time in two years, a Calgary architect has been awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome award.
Andrew King, an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and an architect for the past 15 years, won the award based on his proposal to study the gates of Rome from an architectural, sociological and cultural perspective. Last year, Calgarian Marc Boutin won the award, presented by the Canada Council for the Arts. |
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