Rally Around Homelessness

12/17/2025

Just over 15 months ago, Operation Fresh Start began as a grassroots initiative on a hope and a prayer. It was 100% donor funded before it even fully launched, and today, we’ve got a full year of costs in the bank ready to be deployed in the upcoming year.

The program has $0 overhead, and it has picked up the attention of CAA Magazine, the public school system, public libraries and more.

Several community members are now committed monthly donors. Sasktel Pioneers and many more have kept the liquid detergent and Tide pods coming! 😊

None of this is taken for granted.

Clean laundry is dignity. Clean laundry is healthcare. 🫧

Reflecting back, all we can say is THANK YOU.

Thank you to every partner, collaborator and friend. Thank you for making fresh laundry more accessible. And thank you to Seaspray! ❤️ Their staff time and support has been fully donated in-kind.

12/03/2025

11/27/2025

Why would the Sask government push through involuntary treatment while simultaneously admitting out loud that people are often on — not one — but MULTIPLE wait lists?

11/19/2025

“You’re mentally ill, you’re addicted — kill yourself and save us money” is coming.

This is not a drill. 🆘 MAID is expanding to include mental illness as the sole criteria, at the same time involuntary treatment is rolling out.

This isn’t hyperbole. This isn’t sensationalism. Governments are lining up all the pieces.

The irony? It will cost more. It will destroy more. It will absolutely wreak more havoc.

We need you. Help. Please. 🙏

11/13/2025

Subject: Rob Kraushaar (Regina Street Team)

Dear Councillor,

I am writing to you with urgent concern for the future of the Regina Street Team, following the sudden dismissal of Rob Kraushaar, a leader whose presence has been absolutely vital to some of the most vulnerable people in our city.

The individuals served by the Street Team are human beings living with trauma, homelessness, addiction, and overwhelming systemic barriers. Many have been let down by institutions for years. When someone finally earns their trust, that bond is everything.

Rob earned that trust through lived experience, compassion, consistency, and genuine human connection.

During the recent discussion with Council, Judith Veresuk highlighted how difficult it is to find people with lived experience to do this frontline work. Yet in that same presentation, the fact that Rob — one of the only leaders with meaningful lived experience — had already been dismissed was never disclosed to Council. This raises serious concerns about the information provided.

The Street Team is not just a program. It is a lifeline. And Rob was the heart of it.

The relationships he built over two years cannot be simply replaced. Without him, the people he supported will suffer the most: individuals who cannot easily advocate for themselves, who will now feel abandoned by yet another system.

I am asking you to:

1. Request full transparency about the decision to dismiss Rob and why this information was not shared with Council during the BID discussion.

2. Ensure lived experience is not merely a talking point, but a valued and protected qualification in this program.

3. Advocate for a Street Team model rooted in compassion, harm reduction, and meaningful human connection — the values Rob built into its foundation.

4. Acknowledge Rob’s contributions and recognize the significant impact his absence will have on vulnerable community members.

If it is “hard to find lived experience,” then dismissing someone who embodied it is a question this community deserves answers to.

Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,
[Name]
Resident of Regina

11/12/2025

Six figure experts firing a guy who single handedly provided overnight security AS A VOLUNTEER in a 100+ person encampment those same decision makers never once stepped foot in is peak Elite Regina Syndrome.

11/12/2025

Step 1: Get rid of the people who know too much. Who speak truth. Who say what needs to be said.

Nothing will change so long as systems prioritize comfort politics.

11/12/2025

They gutted the Regina Street Outreach Team and hung them out to dry.

10/25/2025

Tomorrow’s meeting will start at 10:30 in the Heritage Community Association Boardroom

1770 Halifax Street

On the agenda:
🫧 Laundry Program - Operation Fresh Start (Updates, Guidelines and Sustainability)
👻 Spooky Scary Politics - New assaults on harm reduction and the starvation of voluntary treatment
📕Citizens of Regina Book Club Launch
🎄Christmas Meal Planning

Goal: 6 new attendees and 6 return attendees. Let’s fill the table with friendly faces.

10/24/2025

The Premier and Minister of Justice had the audacity tonight to tell people at the Premier’s Dinner that the current system meets people where they are at and is focussed on getting people into voluntary treament as soon as they ask.

Quick question:
In what universe? 🦄 🐖🪽

When are we going to get Provincial leadership that is ready to level with reality?

Is it too much to ask?