Shamattawa First Nation has not had landline telephone service since July 3. Since then at least one elder home alone has had a medical emergency and was left desperate for help, said Chief Jordna Hill.
The City of Thompson and Keewatin Tribal Council are taking a historic step towards the biggest planned new development in the city in the past 50 years by signing an agreement at St. Lawrence Hall o.
The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is sounding the alarm and calling on government to take immediate action to address the remote community's isolation from the larger world, which he says is playing a role in its youth either taking their own lives or attempting to.
The federal government has recently been operating these stations with only two-thirds of the nurses that are required, response to an order paper question from an NDP MP shows