Webequie youth taking action against suicides
Create: 08/02/2017 - 23:59
News of missing youth and youth suicides in remote Northern Ontario First Nations is spurring one Webequie First Nation youth to take action. Twenty-six year old Leslie Spence wants to start a youth council in his community. Spence held a meeting on July 20, 2017 at Webequie’s Band Hall to recruit other youth for the council.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...