Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says the woman was trying to navigate the system of youth support after she was no longer involved with the Children's Ministry.
RCMP say a 61-year-old man called 911 around 11 p.m. Thursday to report being assaulted but when officers arrived, they found an 81-year-old woman suffering from significant head trauma, five broken ribs and bruising all over her body.
Twenty-five-year-old Philicity Lafreniere of Prince George faces five criminal charges
The 19-year-old looks over at the source of the sound, just like the dozens of others in the cafeteria of Thunder Bay's largest homeless shelter
The average wait time was 39 days nationwide and in Alberta, which has been hard hit by the slumping price of oil.
A look at Vancouver's safe-injection sites as Toronto considers the health benefits of integrating supervised injection into existing harm-reduction programs.