TORONTO: Winter starts early this year...
Graeme Bacque (gbacque@idirect.com)
Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:48:04 -0400
October 3, 1998
DEATH PROMPTS APPEAL
By SCOT MAGNISH -- Toronto Sun
The private sector is being asked to open its doors in the wake
of the city's first cold-weather-related death of the season.
A 30-year-old homeless man found suffering from hypothermia
at Dundas and Huron Sts. died in St. Michael's Hospital of a
heart attack, police said yesterday.
The man's identity is being withheld until next-of-kin are notified.
Councillor Jack Layton said the man's death on a night when the
temperature reached a low of 6C should serve as a wake-up call.
Layton said Toronto's 5,000 hostel beds were filled to capacity
as of two weeks ago.
"The city has funding and can even pay to lease space," he said.
"We just need buildings and are making an urgent appeal to the
private sector to come forward with possible sites."
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