By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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Grand Chief: ‘Third-world’ conditions should be election issue in Manitoba
Sun, Oct 2
WINNIPEG (CP) — One of Manitoba’s aboriginal leaders says the lack of clean running water and the third-world living conditions of Manitoba’s First Nations should be a central issue in the provincial election.
Grand Chief David Harper, who represents the province’s northern First Nations, said many communities in the northeast have been neglected for years.
“Here we are sitting in northeastern Manitoba and it’s in a third-world state,” he said in a recent interview. “There is a lack of running water, no running water. This coming winter, some kids and elders in that area, will not have any clean drinking water. Yet every flu season, it seems to happen that people are dying.”
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