Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Friday that another northern First Nation community along Ontario’s James Bay coast which once made national headlines over its own crisis would be getting money for houses.
While the housing crisis in Attawapiskat has the country’s full attention, it was an event on March 5, 2005, that pushed the community toward its current dire state of affairs.
The housing problems in First Nations go far beyond Attawapiskat.
Manitoba chiefs called for “action” against existing oil pipelines on a day of heated words at a special chiefs assembly in Ottawa that heard from embattled Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and saw an impromptu march to the doors of Parliament Hill that ended with police intervention.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo called the Attawapiskat crisis a “national disgrace” and said First Nations people have “reason to feel angry and betrayed,” during his opening speech to chiefs gathered for a special assembly in Ottawa Tuesday.
Housing conditions on Attawapiskat are capturing the headlines.
APTN National News Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says that being placed into third-party management while…
The situation in Attawapiskat shouldn’t come as any surprise to Canadians.
-With cries of political outrage over the Attawapiskat crisis still echoing off Parliament Hill’s sandstone walls, Prime Minister Stephen Harper invited television cameras into his wood-paneled office before his meeting with Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo Thursday to announce a “historic” meeting between his government and First Nations leaders.
