If Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud had her way, she would be in a swimming pool almost every day.

The former head of Siloam Mission may be the province’s senior advisor on ending homelessness, but it’s not her dream job, she said.

“I really loved teaching aquacize,” Blaikie Whitecloud said. “It’s what I did in university. It was the best job I’ve ever had.”

If leading people in water aerobics was plan A, Blaikie Whitecloud chose plan B — working to house the unhoused — because she dreams of a world where chronic homelessness no longer exists.

“Homelessness should be brief and (nonrecurring) but it isn’t,” she said. “So I feel compelled to work towards that solution.”

Blaikie Whitecloud shared these words during a keynote address at the Jubilee Fund’s annual champagne brunch at the Leaf on Sa

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