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Developmentally Disabled People Are Being Pushed into Homelessness | The Tyee

Evictions, high rents and discrimination are behind the disturbing trend, a support centre says.

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Vancouver Island homeless population grappling with rare bacterial infection

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (HIB), which is not related to the influenza virus, has infected at least eight unhoused people on Vancouver Island and led to at least one death.

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