Highlights

The incident occurred Sunday in the Sioux Lookout area.

Brittany Bembeneck has won the Jim Potts Award for contributions to policing in First Nations communities – and she's been promoted to Sergeant.

Ottawa is spending $281.5 million, delivered through the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc. fund, to help create more than 3,700 housing units across the country in urban, rural and remote Indigenous communities.

People use the free Wi-Fi and power provided by the town of Fort Frances and use the area as a public toilet—sometimes in full view of people working and shopping nearby.

If Minister Smith is sincere about mitigating the risk of forest fires, he needs to use the power he already has.

'This ship has come home to stay and will be here for people to enjoy and to learn about for many, many years,' Patty Hajdu said.

Thousands came out for the second day of Country on the Bay.

The First Nations include Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Kasabonika Lake, Wapekeka, Nibinamik, Wunnumin Lake, Kingfisher Lake, Neskantaga and the Landmark Group.

In 1888 Cst. William Sache moved to the North Bay area and became a pioneer resident in Widdifield Twp serving on the Twp council and school board. He died on the 17th of February 1924 and was buried in Union Cemetery in an unmarked grave