The dog that helps the homeless

Two men are hunched over on chairs at a downtown homeless shelter, talking quietly and looking a bit beaten down, when a two-year-old Labernese approaches and sits before them.
First, there are smiles. Then, unprompted, Argon extends his right paw to one of them. The men look at each other. Laughter erupts.
“This dog blows me away,” Yvan Lafleur, 52, says a few minutes later.
The first time he met the dog, Lafleur says, Argon came up to him without hesitating, sat between his fe