Municipal government blocks handwashing and shower access

On October 27 we wrote about a grassroots shower initiative started by people fed up with governments' continued failure to make sure that people sheltering outside have access to showers close to where they're living. Raising their own money and doing their own construction, on Saturday November 7 the two community-built showers were taken to …

Handwashing…so basic and yet…

“A lot of services shut down and there are hardly any bathrooms available, and the bathrooms that are available are only during specified hours...If the city was going to respond you think they would put out handwashing stations, if the basic premise of this [emergency] is to fight COVID-19…right?” trish pal, Indigenous Harm Reduction Team, …