‘Frostbite capital’: Efforts to reduce amputations underway in Edmonton

The Hope Mission says the shelter has had to hire more nurses in recent years because a majority of frostbite procedures ...

Emergency shelters aren’t full. So why is Edmonton pushing for more space?

To get a better sense of where shelter capacity stands in Edmonton this winter, CBC News dug into the numbers and spoke to agencies and advocates in November.
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Edmonton took down 9,500 homeless camps last year — 40% more than in 2023

Edmonton police and city crews removed nearly 9,500 homeless encampments in 2024 — up more than 40 per cent from the 6,700 they took down the year before, city data shows. Costs to clean up sites went ...
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Opinion: Next-level collaboration needed to fix Edmonton's social ills

Few understand the magnitude of our correctional footprint. Edmonton hosts one of the largest clusters of institutions in the ...
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Opinion: Edmonton's tuberculosis outbreak shows need for housing

If you are one of the many people who thought tuberculosis just wasn’t a thing anymore, you were practically right — it ...

Efforts to reduce frostbite amputations underway in Edmonton

Statistics from Alberta Health Services show the number of amputations due to frostbite saw a stark uptick last winter in ...
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'Frostbite capital': Efforts to reduce frostbite amputations underway in Edmonton

Trevor Logan winces in pain as a nurse cleans the blistered middle finger on his right hand, swollen to twice its size due to ...