By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Thunder Bay Source THUNDER BAY — About 200 delegates from First Nations across northern Ontario gathered in a local hotel Tuesday for three days of discussion on an agreement with the federal government to reform First Nations child and family services in the province. “We haven’t been able to get across the finish line on that agreement,” Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said in his opening remarks. The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is still “standing in the way” but its appeal to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal could be resolved soon, he said. Representatives of NAN member nations are in Thunder Bay “to talk about the implementation of the Ontario Final Agreement,” he told Newswatch after his…
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