US EditionNeskantaga First Nation asks governments to respond to state of emergency after flood
- Chief Gary Quisess of Neskantaga First Nation declared a local state of emergency April 13.
- This event occurred after water with a strong fuel smell entered the local nursing station.
- The First Nation announced evacuation for about 130 people south to Thunder Bay requiring health services.
- These evacuees require "full and immediate access" to health services, according to statements.
- Chief Quisess requests governments mobilize emergency health care and provide a written emergency plan.
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Ontario First Nation asks governments to respond to flooding emergency
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, Ont. -- A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay.
Editorial: Neskantaga Deserves More Than Emergency Responses
THUNDER BAY – EDITORIAL – When the images of families evacuated from Neskantaga First Nation arrived in Thunder Bay again this past week, it was not just a wake-up call—it was a damning indictment of decades of federal and provincial inaction. The April 13 declaration of emergency—prompted by flooding that shut down the only nursing station—feels tragically familiar. Over 150 residents, many of them children and Elders, were evacuated to Thunder…
Neskantaga First Nation asks governments to respond to state of emergency after flood - The Turtle Island News
A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay. Chief Gary Quisess of Neskantaga First Nation called a local state of emergency on April 13 after water that had a strong fuel odour flooded into a local nursing st…
Neskantaga First Nation asks governments to respond to state of emergency after flood – 105.9 The Region
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. — A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay. Chief Gary Quisess of Neskantaga First Nation called a local state of emergency on April 13 after water that had a strong fuel odour…
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