The hunger strike prompted an investigation by a health panel that looked into issues in the Sioux Lookout region and “recommended solutions to improve health-care delivery."
As food banks in Ontario face record-breaking demand and hunters wind down hunting season with freezers full of deer and moose meat, some advocates for food access are calling on the province to allow food banks to accept wild game donations.
Over five years ago, the Ontario government vowed to build 76 long-term care beds in Sioux Lookout, which serves as a health-care hub for dozens of remote First Nations. Now running out of room for everyone who needs care, the community is ramping up efforts to get the province to deliver on its promise.
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With millions of Ontarians already not having a family doctor, provincial medical leaders are warning the situation will only get worse in the coming years.