As cold weather moves in, Montreal enacts measures to help unhoused people

The city of Montreal is taking measures to help unhoused people face the coming cold snap, including opening a temporary 135-space shelter in the downtown YMCA building. Speaking at city hall Thursday, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada called on residents across the city to show tolerance as the cold weather threatens the city’s most vulnerable. “Winter arrived much too fast,” Martinez Ferrada said, flanked by members of her newly formed “crisis unit” to address homeles