As northern Ontario First Nations flee, exposure to alcohol, drugs and other dangers lead to new safety risks.
Eve Wesley hadn’t slept in days. Anxiety kept her awake over her niece’s disappearance outside of a Toronto hotel that housed Cat Lake First Nation evacuees seeking refuge from the northern Ontario fires.
It wasn’t until two days later that she was finally able to rest, she says, upon discovering the 22-year-old was found alive near the CN Tower, after wandering around with nothing to eat.
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First Nation chiefs and community members are highlighting the dangers that follow evacuees after they have fled northern Ontario…
THUNDER BAY - The smoke that blanketed Whitesand First Nation became thicker, darker and more acrid within hours.
Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat
Community members spoke to the Star at the largely deserted reserve, home to more than 300 residents in homes lined up on a…
Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.
Neskantaga First Nation evacuated vulnerable residents not because of advancing wildfires, but because road closures cut off…
