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The Treaty 3 Police Service has entered into an agreement with Chief Randy Fobister and the rest of Grassy Narrows to help control the amount of alcohol flowing into the First Nation in an effort to promote the overall health of the community.
Following a decision from earlier in the month, Treaty 3 police will now enforce
Alcohol Inagonigaawin, a new inherent law intended to punish people who might bring excessive quantities of alcohol into Grassy Narrows’s reserve. Those who break the law will, with the help of the police, be brought before a community justice panel and likely face fines and other punishments. The process will also be overseen by the Kaakewaaseya Justice Department of Grand Council Treaty 3.
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As Wabaseemoong Independent Nations grapples with a significant COVID-19 outbreak, the local health unit has received reports of businesses in Kenora refusing service based on someone’s race.
Dr. Kit Young Hoon, the Northwestern Health Unit’s medical officer of health, said that no formal complaints have been made but pointed out that any refusal of service based on someone’s race is a violation of the human rights code.
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“We don’t actually collect comprehensive data on that so I don’t have a good understanding of how widespread that issue is,” Young Hoon told reporters on Tuesday.