Canadian women’s shelters brace for end of emergency pandemic funding

During the pandemic, women’s shelters in Canada received millions of dollars in emergency funding, but that money is set to end in September. We discuss what it will take to keep the lights on in these shelters, with Dawn Ferris, executive director of Cumberland County Transition House Association in Amherst, N.S.; and Danica Hoffart, executive director at the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter in Red Deer, Alberta.