{"id":925325,"date":"2026-10-08T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925325\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:18:09","slug":"man-59-dies-while-homeless-in-granby-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925325\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 59, dies while homeless in Granby, Que."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A 59-year-old man died while homeless in Granby, Que., earlier this week, according to the municipality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Around 8:15 p.m. on Monday, police were called to assist a man who was found unconscious behind a commercial building on Principale Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The man was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A police spokesperson said the man was known to them for having no fixed address. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The coroner&#8217;s office will be investigating to determine the causes and circumstances of his death, which police believe was not criminal in nature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">On Wednesday, another individual, a woman in her 50s, died<a class=\"link-_o8iA html-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/homeless-encampment-fire-montreal-nord-9.7372216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> after a fire gripped an encampment<\/a> in Montr\u00e9al-Nord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Montreal&#8217;s mayor has said she wants to work with the provincial government to confront the &#8220;urgent homelessness crisis.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-925325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}