"...a young adult who previously had both legs amputated below the knees because of frostbite showed up again with frostbite on their hands. Several fingers were amputated."
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“You have a policy that absolutely makes it impossible to set up a decent camp. The result is what we have now — people just curled up under almost nothing, under cardboard, under a tarp,” he said.
“They’re just lying in doorways and behind garbage containers and in bus shelters with a bare tarp or a little blanket wrapped around them.”
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“Any suggestion that these deaths were individuals facing homelessness or that this is the cause of their death is complete speculation,” Wishloff said.

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Frostbite injuries up for Edmonton's homeless; advocates suspect link to encampment removals

Frostbite injuries for people "with no fixed address" jumped in the Edmonton area in early 2024, with advocates drawing a link to increased encampment removals

^{Lauren Boothby (Edmonton Journal)}