Martin spends night in cardboard box, Brown raises $70,000, Sen. Campbell writes about Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Published November 23, 2009

NDP MP Tony Martin, who represents the northern Ontario riding of Sault Ste. Marie, spent a night sleeping in a cardboard box.

He was participating in a fundraiser with 200 others for the Sault Ste. Marie Soup Kitchen Community Centre on Friday, Nov. 13 to draw attention to the problem of homelessness in his riding. Mr. Martin told HOH that the weather was about seven degrees and luckily it didn't rain. He was dressed...