Between flooding that occurred in 2014, 2017 and 2022, a total of 784 people have been unable to return home, mainly due to a significant lack of housing in the community.
Peguis First Nation declared a state of emergency Tuesday over a housing shortage that has prevented hundreds of people forced out during a series of floods from returning to the Cree and Ojibway community in Manitoba's Interlake.
The new chief of Manitoba's most populous First Nation wants to know why riverfront property it purchased in one of Winnipeg's most desirable residential neighbourhoods was flipped to a private developer instead of becoming part of its reserve lands.