Remembering Dans la rue founder Pops: 'He reached out when no one else did'

Ashley Smith was a junkie desperate for her next fix when she first met Father Emmett Johns, the kind-hearted priest who befriended thousands of marginalized youths in Montreal.
Johns looked at the holes in her arms, and sensing the pain in her heart, assured her everything was going to be OK.
The two crossed paths often during the year Smith spend on the streets in 2006. They chatted at the Dans la rue day centre, and Johns would give Smith clean socks, a hot dog and a kind word when his van wo