ATTAWAPISKAT, ON – Frustration is growing in Attawapiskat over the seeming indifference of Minister Seamus O’Regan to the state of emergency over the water crisis. NDP MPs Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay) and Tracey Ramsey (Essex) held a public meeting in Attawapiskat and met with hunger [Read more]
Province Supporting Indigenous Health Care Ontario is investing nearly $222 million over the next three years to ensure Indigenous people have access to more culturally appropriate care and improved outcomes, focusing on the North where there are significant gaps in health services. This investment [Read more]
ATTAWAPISKAT, ON – Since the declaration of emergency by the Attawapiskat First Nation, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) has and continues to respond to calls of emergency in addition to regular calls for service. Mental Health calls for service are being addressed with appropriate [Read more]
ATTAWAPISKAT, ON – May 20, 2014, Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Attawapiskat Detachment received a complaint about a fight taking place on board an aircraft in flight. Police attended at the Attawapiskat airport and commenced an investigation upon arrival of Air Tindi Flight 803. As a result [Read more]
Latest Update – May 19 at 10 p.m. At the request of leaders of the First Nation, Attawapiskat residents who had been evacuated to communities in Ontario and Québec over the last three days, will start to move back home on May 20. Community leaders and officials from the Ministry of Natural [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON -March 22, 2012, Nishnawbe-Aski Police members of the Attawapiskat Detachment with the assistance of the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Drug Enforcement Unit charged a woman under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act after receiving information about drug trafficking. Police located [Read more]
First Nation students picket John Duncan Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development in Thunder Bay THUNDER BAY, ON – The elected Grand Chief, Marsha Kennedy of Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School and the school leadership group are showing their support for Chief Theresa Spence [Read more]
AIAI GRAND CHIEF STATEMENT REGARDING CANADA’S RESPONSE TO ATTAWAPISKAT LONDON, ON –The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) is outraged by the Federal Government’s handling of the Attawapiskat Crisis. By suggesting that the current situation is exclusively the fault of the [Read more]
Thunder Bay, ON – The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service has received funding to provide summer employment for students within the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation communities that NAPS serves. The Youth In Policing Initiative (YIPI) will provide a safe and positive summer employment opportunity for young [Read more]
FROM: Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Headquarters Attawapiskat, ON – January 27, 2011, an agreement between the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) and the [Read more]
