Chief Glen Hare, Ontario's Regional Chief with the Assembly of First Nations, drove a cube van across Ontario last week, packed full of clothes and cold weather supplies for homeless people in Thunder Bay, Ont.
OTTAWA An Assembly of First Nations regional chief is calling for the federal government to invest more money into searching the sites of residential schools for unmarked graves. Assembly of First Nations Ontario Regional Chief Roseanne Archibald told CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Tuesday the process across the country could require $100 million or more from the federal government. “We have to get light on what has happened in residential schools across Canada,” Archibald said. She said the federal government is a key player in the work to find the children who never came home from residential schools.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
A sign pleading for help in Neskantaga First Nation.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC)
Members of a First Nation that has been under a boil-water advisory for longer than any other in Canada are hoping to return home before Christmas to clean running water for the first time in 25 years.
Neskantaga, accessible only by air and an ice road in winter, sits about 450 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont. where nearly 300 of its members have been living in a hotel since an oily sheen in the reserve s reservoir on Oct. 19 triggered their evacuation.
Now, final tests are taking place to determine whether Neskantaga s water is safe enough for the community to use, weeks after members originally were scheduled to fly back and two years after the reserve s water treatment plant was supposed to start producing clean drinking water.