Widening Plan For Kakabeka Falls Area Highway Stalled
No design contract awarded yet for a 26 kilometre widening of Highway 1117 west of Kakabeka Falls. Transport Ministry says preliminary design not complete and information centres are not planned. locals see safety benefits but doubt rapid progress. MPP Holland stresses need for safer traffic flow and existing planning since the 1970s.
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Diane Harrison
Kakabeka Falls
Kevin Holland
Thunder Bay-Atikokan
Holland
Conmee Township
Ontario
Ottawa delays after First Nations chiefs reject child welfare deal
Indigenous Services Minister Hajdu says the Assembly of First Nations must return with a clear plan on how to proceed after chiefs in Calgary voted down a 47.8 billion ten year child welfare reform agreement. AFN National Chief Nepinak and Woodhouse are listening closely as Ottawa weighs options to keep negotiations moving.
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Ottawa
Indigenous Services
Patty Hajdy
Assembly of First Nations
Hajdu
AFN
Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak
Calgary
Canada
Woodhouse Nepinak
Cindy Blackstock
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society
Caring Society
Human Rights Tribunal
Power line set for worst location on She Bandowan Lake
A small group of camp owners near Three Mile Bay on She Bandowan Lake asks the province to enforce a conservation plan guarding the area from development and power projects such as the Wansigan Transmission line. Brant Muir notes an alternative corridor already exists and questions the chosen site.
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Shebandowan Lake
Wansigan
Brant Muir
Three Mile Bay
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