The city of Toronto has been issued an extreme cold weather alert to trigger additional homeless services as the temperature drops to –15 C overnight.

"Alerts are typically called in the morning for the coming overnight period so that community agencies have sufficient time to call in extra staff to provide enhanced services," a release from the city read Saturday.

Toronto usually adds 172 shelter spaces during an extreme cold alert. Shelters will be asked to relax any current restrictions. If no beds are available, they must allow clients to stay there until a bed can be found elsewhere.

At some drop-in-centres, TTC tokens are made available so people can get to other shelters.

The warning remains in effect until further notice.

The weather warning comes a day after men and women took to city hall to protest the shortage of beds in homeless shelters.

Brett Thomas knows where he will spend Saturday night with some peace of mind.

“I came last night and I got a bed here at Good Sheppard. As long as I’m here at 5:30 p.m. to keep my bed and that’s the important thing,” Thomas said.

There are 91 beds at the Good Sheppard — a shelter on Queen Street East where people can get a warm meal, sometimes clothing and a bed for the night.

With Saturday’s extreme cold temperatures, all the beds are likely to remain full.

Despite 172 new beds being added during the alert, many say there is still a vast shortage for Toronto’s homeless.

Kenton Calbert, who has stayed in shelters, says the Good Sheppard is always full. On cold nights, people have had to go elsewhere, or else would only have to sleep on the floor.

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  • Cat vs. Bunny in the Snow

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  • PJ in the Snow

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  • Mark McMorris, of Regina, falls on his landing during the Big Air event at the FIS Snowboard World Championship in Quebec City, Saturday, January 19, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

  • Ice Cold

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  • Don Decker starts to clean up during the first major snowstorm of the season, in St. John's, N.L., on Friday Jan. 11, 2013. An estimated 40cm have fallen. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly

  • Toronto

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  • Swan Hills, Alberta

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  • An employee of the Saddledome uses a leaf blower to clear snow from the steps of the arena as a light snow falls in Calgary, Alta., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

  • Residents in downtown St. John's try to dig out in the aftermath of a snowstorm that dropped over 40 centimetres of snow by Friday morning, Jan. 11, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly

  • The chapel of the Quebec city Ice Hotel is pictured in Quebec city Sunday January 6, 2013. The first ice hotel in North America, L'Hotel de glace de Quebec is located in Quebec borough of Charlesbourg, 10 km from downtown. The Canadian Press Images/Francis Vachon

  • The Wave

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  • Winter in the North

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  • Frosty window in Toronto

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  • Frozen falls

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  • The Road Home

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  • Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba — a prairie sunset in the winter. Photo Courtesy of <a href="http://hikebiketravel.com/">Leigh McAdam</a>

  • Winter Wonderland

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  • Lighted trail

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  • Off Leash in the Ravine

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  • Peachland, BC Canada Jan 18th 2013

    Peachland, BC Canada January 18th 2013

  • Leo and Mount Orford

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  • Ice Soldiers

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  • Peachland,BC Christmas Day

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  • Port Dover after winter storm

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  • Peachland,BC Canada

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  • Sampson

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  • Snowy Aurora

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  • Winter Light

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  • Beautiful Buck!

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  • Snowed in

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  • Snowshoe in Rogers Pass

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  • Oliver Horses

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  • White Tuesday in Toronto

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  • <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraKirk/status/293814583569813504/photo/1">@DebraKirk: Lake Scugog, Ontario</a>

  • Bitter Cold

    A woman walks through a ravine in Toronto's east end on Tuesday January 22, 2013 as the city issues an extreme weather warning after temperatures drop to minus 24.

  • Sunset in Atlantic Canada

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  • Montréal dec. 27th

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  • The Plow

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  • South Okanagan Vineyards

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  • Blanket of snow

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  • Winter view

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  • Oliver Benchland

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  • Niagara Falls 2013

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  • <a href="https://twitter.com/jaclynmtersigni">@jaclynmtersigni</a>: This is near Dupont and Spadina (in Toronto).

  • Made it through the winter.

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  • Snow falls at near the McGillivray Pass Lodge located in the southern Chilcotin Mountains of British Columbia, Canada on Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)