The local New Democratic Party is planning a rally outside the counties council chamber next Tuesday morning to coincide with crucial discussions on the fate of a Brockville homeless shelter.

The NDP is the latest organization to join calls to keep the Co-Operative Care Centre open, as it faces the loss of counties funding at the end of the year.

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“We just want to show the community is behind this,” Chris Wilson, president of the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes provincial NDP riding association, as well as its federal counterpart, said Thursday.

The Co-Operative Care Centre is a 25-bed overnight warming centre for homeless people located on the grounds of the Brockville Mental Health Centre, run by the Brockville Housing Partnership, a coalition of l

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