First Nation chiefs in northern Ontario rally around Neskantaga amid ongoing evacuation

First Nation chiefs in northern Ontario rally around Neskantaga amid ongoing evacuation

It’s been nearly eight weeks since Neskantaga First Nation’s most vulnerable members were sent to a hotel in Toronto, but remediation work on the nursing station that forced the evacuation has only just begun. That's left some community members worrying they won't get home before the snow falls. The remote Ojibway community, some 440 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont., declared a state of emergency on Aug. 4 following a sewage spill at its nursing station, the only health-care facility in the First Nation. Here's the latest on the situation.