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Attawapiskat: Baagwating Community Association, Ontario Volunteer Group Sending Aid

First Posted: 01/02/12 11:30 AM ET Updated: 01/04/12 03:50 PM ET

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TORONTO - A four-member volunteer team from Durham Region will deliver relief supplies this week to the northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat, which has a housing crisis.

Officials say members of the Baagwatting Community Association pledged $100,000 to help Attawapiskat residents and the aid will be delivered Thursday.

The aid includes 250 water purification systems, water purification tablets, 300 adult and child hygiene kits, medical supplies and 300 sets of thermal clothing.

The team delivering the aid will include a Durham Region police officer, two paramedics, one each from Durham Region and Toronto EMS, and a water technician.

They are members of the Ontario Volunteer Emergency Response Team, which operates out of Durham Region.

The Attawapiskat First Nation declared an emergency in October because 25 families were living in housing too flimsy to face the harsh winter.

Ottawa has placed the band's finances in the hands of a third-party manager, a decision that has infuriated band leaders and sparked a legal fight.

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TORONTO - A four-member volunteer team from Durham Region will deliver relief supplies this week to the northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat, which has a housing crisis.Officials say members of th...
TORONTO - A four-member volunteer team from Durham Region will deliver relief supplies this week to the northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat, which has a housing crisis.Officials say members of th...
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Northern ONT Teacher
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09:38 PM on 01/06/2012
That's Great that you are sending aid to Attawapiskat. Just make sure that it does go to the "right" people that really need it !
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Marg Wood
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11:20 AM on 01/03/2012
Good for Durham Region! It seems it's easier to condemn then to have compassion for those who need it, then to take action and not condemn! Durham volunteers you ROCK!
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originaldna
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03:45 AM on 01/03/2012
“Dominion of the British Empire. Aka white mans country policy.

The policy rested on two pillars. 1.The implantati­on of a demographi­c revolution­, where white settlers will eventually out number the natives. 2. The herding of the natives into reserves.

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia. Canada were the countries targeted.
South Africa and Zimbabwe survive this policy somewhat.

Public records of the Colonial office at Kew Gardens London England
for those who care to know more about this.

Until the natives of Canada unite and put up a fight like they did in Zimbabwe and South Africa nothing will change.Sto­p accepting hand out for your own resources by any means unnecessar­y.”
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CanadaStan
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01:12 AM on 01/03/2012
Why don't the band members do some of this themselves?
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TwoZeroOZ
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02:59 AM on 01/03/2012
If someone said "Here's 35 million dollars to spend as you please for the next two years", would you spend it on a new Escalade, or water filters?
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Raymond Hietapakka
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09:07 AM on 01/03/2012
...Because 3/4 of them have OTHER priorities, like eating Percocets like they're CANDIES...
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