Carl DeLine

The Homeless: City shelter hit with rising demand

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Tonight, as families embrace in front of warm fires and Christmas trees, there are more homeless people in Calgary than ever before. Social agencies and church officials estimate that at any time up to 400 people may be living on the streets. “It’s usually between 100 and 150, but that rises to up to 5,000 […]

The Homeless: Get involved, churches urged

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Increased charity from churches is hopefully the first step in helping the plight of the needy in Calgary, says Carl DeLine, director of The Back Door youth employment project. “Tonight many people will sleep on the streets,” says DeLine. “We need to find out why they are homeless, so that we can attempt to do […]

Mayor sets holiday feast for street kids

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Mayor Al Duerr has decided $2,500 set aside for wining and dining local media could be better used this year by street youth. For the first time in at least 10 years, the mayor’s Christmas party for up to 100 local television, radio and newspaper journalists will be cancelled to help the growing number of […]

Street-wise youths shown path to better life

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A few months ago, Bev Collin was just another tough, hungry kid living by her wits on the streets of Calgary. But the 18-year-old decided to ditch her dead-end lifestyle. Now she has a boyfriend, a baby and a home. These days she’s facing another challenge–entering a competitive job market with little education, skills or […]

Too soon to link 3 slayings, RCMP say

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Speculation that three recent slayings in Calgary are the work of a serial killer does more harm than good, says the head of the RCMP’s investigation into the latest death. In the past 21 months, three teenaged girls have been found dead on the outskirts of Calgary. Each victim was known to have been living […]

Scott wants Child Act review

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Alderwoman worried kids will end up on the street The needs of children are being sacrificed to keep dysfunctional families together under provincial child welfare legislation, says Ald. Barb Scott. Scott, who chairs city council’s community services committee, says she was appalled during a recent visit to a home where an alcoholic father was neglecting […]

Church aid sought for inner city

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Campaign launched to help social programs A suburban Baptist minister has launched a campaign to get Calgary’s 400 churches more involved with the inner city’s poor and disadvantaged. Rev. Steven Berg has launched an appeal to raise about $500,000 for four social services agencies that work with unemployed youth, street people and women with crisis […]

Funding announcements deserve second look

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Family violence is a major problem in this community and our society. Therefore, this newspaper has made it an important journalistic priority this year to describe and define the human and political dimensions of the problem. The effort has included extensive news coverage of the mayor’s task force on community violence and political reaction to […]

Street youth violence targeted

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The Back Door trying to unite parents and kids Authorities tell a street kid to return to her home and she struggles to find a way to tell them that she can’t–her mother passes her around as a sexual favor to her boyfriends. A different mother calls the Back Door, an agency for street youth, […]

Back Door looking for open doors

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Counsellors at The Back Door are developing a directory of affordable housing for participants in their programs. Worrying about accommodation, finding employment and the next meal are all part of the daily challenges facing 135 youths at The Back Door, a private organization working to get young, hard-core street kids back into society and a […]

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