Yes, in my backyard: How a stranger's act of kindness has changed a homeless man's life

Ask David McDonald and Kim Cormier who’s getting the most out of their new friendship, and they’ll both point to themselves.

“I feel very blessed to have met David,” Cormier said from her home in the Skeleton Park neighbourhood of Kingston, Ont.

“I’m the blessed one,” corrected McDonald, sitting beside her.

It was a chance encounter this past July that brought them together.

McDonald, 46, who’s been intermittently homeless since 2016, was passing Cormier’s house on his e-scooter earlier this summer when he blew a tire. He asked Cormier, who was working outside on her laptop, if she would watch his belongings for him