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Thunder Bay A photo that appears to show an Indigenous elder lying in the hallway of a hospital in Thunder Bay, Ont., raises concerns about the region’s treatment of Indigenous patients. The social media post with the photo comes on the heels of the Canadian Medical Association’s public apology for harmsContinue Reading

Thunder Bay Living on through DNA: Another crew member identified from the 1845 Franklin expeditionThe skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was identified in a joint study by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University. They were found to belongContinue Reading

Thunder Bay A group of women’s hockey players in Kenora, Ont., are threatening to take the city to court over its ice allocation policy — arguing they’re facing gender-based discrimination. The women say the 10 p.m. start times are too late when they are disproportionately burdened with household chores andContinue Reading

Thunder Bay About a dozen people from Grassy Narrows First Nation are driving in a caravan from northwestern Ontario to Toronto to raise awareness about the impact of mercury contamination, an issue in the community that dates back to the 1960s, ahead of a rally at Queen’s Park in TorontoContinue Reading

Family members who have been fighting for years to repatriate the remains of their loved one who was put in a residential school in Thunder Bay, Ont., say they’ve been denied federal funding because he died when he was an adult. Percy Onabigon was six years old when he was takenContinue Reading

Thunder Bay The man who oversaw the creation of thousands of forged artworks in Thunder Bay, Ont., that were falsely attributed to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, in a case investigators have called Canada’s largest art fraud investigation. David Voss, 52, was in ThunderContinue Reading

For years, Michael Baker has been a client at Path 525, the only safe drug consumption site in Thunder Bay, Ont., and says staff there have saved his life over a dozen times. Baker is also a volunteer at the site and says he, in turn, has helped saved the lives of a dozenContinue Reading

Thunder Bay Advocates in Thunder Bay, Ont., say the upcoming closure of the city’s only safe consumption site will lead to more overdose deaths in a community that’s had the highest opioid toxicity rate in the province for multiple years. Here’s why people in Thunder Bay say safe consumption servicesContinue Reading

Thunder Bay Doctors spread thin in remote Ontario communities, inquest for First Nation woman toldThe inquest for Ruthann Quequish from Kingfisher Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario has shed light on health-care challenges in remote communities, from doctor shortages to communication breakdowns and lack of resources. As the proceedings nearContinue Reading