Attawapiskat Chief Spence takes battle with Ottawa to court
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she’s going to court against Aboriginal Affairs to challenge the department’s decision to impose a third-party manager on her community.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she’s going to court against Aboriginal Affairs to challenge the department’s decision to impose a third-party manager on her community.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Friday that the housing crisis gripping the northern Ontario First Nation of Attawapiskat is partly of its own making.
The Canadian Red Cross is expected to intervene in the crisis gripping the northern Ontario First Nation community of Attawapiskat where families live in tents, others in shacks with no running water and human waste is dumped from buckets into ditches.
Shelters for homeless people are meant to be safe places where street people get a night’s rest.
A coroner’s ruling in Northern Ontario is supporting the claims of First Nations in the area that juries are excluding Aboriginal people.
Thunder Bay, Ont., is considered a hub for as many as 49 First Nations in northern Ontario.
A body pulled from a river in Thunder Bay, Ont., was that of a 15 year-old Aboriginal youth who had been missing since February.
The search continues for a young First Nation man who vanished in Thunder Bay, Ont.
It has been 29 days since Jordan Wabasse went missing.