John Bonnar

In the summertime, most people are preoccupied with their vacation plans. But death never takes a vacation. Particularly for homeless people who are far more likely to die prematurely.

On Saturday, Yonge Street was closed off to traffic between Gould and Queen Streets for the annual Live Green Toronto Festival.

Both men died on the same day. At the same shelter. Of unnatural causes. Because there was nothing natural about a 52-year-old and a 69-year-old dying in a men's shelter in downtown Toronto.

A documentary project team has allegedly obtained 30 hours of "haunting" footage from inside the G20 Eastern Avenue Detention Centre.

On Monday, health care professionals in 17 cities across the country held their third National Day of Action to oppose the cuts to refugee health care imposed by the Conservatives two years ago.