A group of advocacy groups in Nova Scotia says 20 provincial inmates who shifted to community housing during the COVID-19 crisis could lose their residences by the end of the month unless a fresh source of funding can be found. Lawyer Emma Halpern, representing the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, talks with reporters after a deportation hearing by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S. on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan