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Indigenous-led solution to First Nations’ power woes in the works

Indigenous-led solution to First Nations’ power woes in the works

Relief is on the horizon with recent announcement that the Ontario government has designated Wataynikaneyap Power the transmission company to build an ambitious 1,800-kilometre power line linking 17 remote First Nations communities to the provincial power grid. Last December, the electricity grid in Margaret Kenequanash’s home community of North Caribou …

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First effort failed to stop outbreak at Toronto shelter

First effort failed to stop outbreak at Toronto shelter

Testing and treatment of residents at the men’s homeless shelter seemed to be working until more cases in June. Toronto Public Health thought in May it had tamed the group-A strep outbreak at Seaton House shelter that has sickened 37 people, but was forced to call outside experts when the …

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Survivors recount scene at Quetta hospital blast

Survivors recount scene at Quetta hospital blast

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – The Latest on the bombing at a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta (all times local): 1:40 p.m. A Pakistani man who survived the bombing of a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta describes a horrifying scene, saying there were “bodies everywhere” after …

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