Critical Perspectives and Reflections

(By a research team comprising Patrick Carpenter, Angela Johnston, Neil Joseph, David Neshinapaise, Charnele Sondezi, Jim Ward, Loretta Watetch) August 2016 1.    Introduction We are Community Health Worker students taking courses at Anishnawbe Health Toronto.  Our class in the Introduction to Social Sciences course has six students, all of whom are Indigenous.  The instructor for the course (Jim Ward) is not.  One aspect of this course is to study methods of social research and a practical aspect is for us to conduct our own study.  As a class, we decided to do an exploratory study on homelessness.  All members of the research team, including the instructor, have experienced homelessness in the past.  The study topic grew out of this experience and a general interest in finding out what the current situation is in Toronto. At the  outset, all seven team members carried out archival research regarding what are seen to be th...