New shelter spaces for women aim to tackle capacity issues for the Mustard Seed

The Mustard Seed is opening 40 new shelter spaces for women only with help from the province on Monday. At a news conference early Monday morning, the beds were made available right away. “That means that we should have enough emergency capacity to be able to deal with winter inside both of our largest cities, which will free up some time for us to actually focus on long term housing solutions,” said Jason Nixon, minister of seniors, community and social services. The 40 spaces are f