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Kashechewan

Floods To Blame For More Evacuations

CBC | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada

Rising waters and spring flooding are to blame for more evacuations in the James Bay community of Kashechewan. There are plans to have ap...

Sewage Floods Force Evacuations In Attawapiskat And Kashechewan

CBC | Posted 05.02.2013 | Canada

A partial evacuation was underway Wednesday in the Kashechewan First Nation, and some frail and elderly have already been flown out of Attawapiskat Fi...

Two Reserves Declare State Of Emergency

CBC | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Politics

A partial evacuation is now planned for the Kashechewan First Nation, as flood problems worsen for communities on the James Bay Coast in northern Onta...

Attawapiskat Neighbour In Dire Straits

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.01.2013 | Canada Impact

OTTAWA - A year after the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat jarred the country's conscience with its deplorable housing conditions, the reser...

State Of Emergency Declared In Two First Nations Communities

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.25.2012 | Canada

FORT ALBANY FIRST NATION, - Two First Nations communities in northern Ontario have declared a state of emergency and are evacuating residents as ice b...

Northern Reserves No Strangers To Crisis

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

If the news of squalid housing conditions in the northwestern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapaskat sounds familiar, it should. Here are jus...