NAN welcomes upcoming inspection of Thunder Bay Police Service Nishnawbe Aski Nation and family members of two Indigenous individuals who died in the city are welcoming an inspection of the Thunder Bay Police Service by the Inspectorate of Policing. The Inspector General of Policing, Ryan Teschner, announced last week that he will be conducting an inspection of … Read more
Grassy Narrows on the cusp of a housing boom Chief Rudy Turtle disclosed on YouTube recently that his First Nation northeast of Kenora has secured a federal commitment for scores of new housing units in the next few years. A meeting last month with Indigenous Services Canada produced a $24-million pledge to fund 50 new … Read more
First Nations take a stand against nuclear waste in the North Pays Plat First Nation member Sharlene Bourdeau Waboose was clear about her reason for participating in Wednesday’s rally at Waverley Park. “Because Pays Plat is against the burial of nuclear waste in the North,” she said just before the rally got underway. Leaders “have … Read more
First Nations oppose potential arrival of nuclear waste Fort William First Nation and Gull Bay First Nation are among a dozen regional Indigenous communities that are formally opposing a plan to transport spent nuclear-fuel rods to a potential underground storage facility near Ignace. In a letter to Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) president Laurie Swami … Read more
Infrastructure funding will aid Thunder Bay in reaching housing targets Just in time for the city to start preparing their 2025 budget, MPP for Thunder Bay-Atikokan Kevin Holland announced that $10.4 million in additional funding will be allocated to Thunder Bay’s Interocean Development Servicing Program under the Housing Enabling Water System Fund (HEWF). “It’s a … Read more
TBTnews coverage of the Harm Reduction Industrial Complex’s Awareness Day held at Waverley Park. Lives were at stake because of the Ontario Governments closure of many Harm Reduction Centres across Ontario. I believe that the people, the Industrial Complex that has flourished around the addiction crisis, whose very income is depended on perpetual government … Read more
We the Nuclear Free North receives support from council Members of We the Nuclear Free North held a peaceful rally at city hall and spoke before council before receiving a favourable result on Monday. Charles Faust, founding member of We the Nuclear Free North, said he thinks the ask was realistic. “We’re asking council to … Read more
City council to vote on new housing incentives Thunder Bay councillors will discuss a report on Monday outlining new incentives to increase the number of housing units being built in the city. The report will recommend the Housing Community Improvement Plan be adopted, that the entire city be designated as a community improvement project area, … Read more
Another example of how the Indigenous chiefs and community only care when members of their community are in prison, are killed or go missing. Up until then, nobody seems to care. Bruce Wallace Frogg was a member of Wawakapewin, an Oji-Cree First Nation and remote fly-in community about 350 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout. … Read more
There is a hypothesis that the continued weakening of the planet’s magnetic field is allowing more radiation and other crap emitted by the sun to get down to us and is screwing up our brains. Making people act crazy. I am starting to believe that is true. The world has gone off the rails. … Read more