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Letter: The Homeless at Our Door — Then and Now

Suzanne Sloan on her mother's Winnipeg house in the 1930s, the people who slept on its basement floor, and what that history asks of us now.

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The Owen Sound Current
May 25, 2026
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I commend Tamara Sargent on her letter to readers of The Owen Sound Current, concerning the conditions and challenges to our city’s homeless. They are not all miscreants, addicts, and wanton polluters as some wish to believe.

In fact, probably the majority are simply casualties of the times, just as we…

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