Canada’s homelessness strategy gets $5.3M boost

refugees and asylum seekers from its at-capacity shelters since June, referring them to federal programs and arguing it needed more money from the federal government to accommodate the influx.

Newly elected Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow pressed Ottawa for an additional $160 million last week, calling the crisis a federal responsibility. The federal government said Friday that the responsibility of housing and support for asylum seekers lies with provinces and municipalities.

On Monday night, a growing group of refugees were moved to a North York church for shelter after spending days living on the sidewalk outside a downtown Toronto shelter intake office.

The federal government says increasing global migration has led to a rise in the number of asylum claimants in Canada. City News Montreal