Collaboration needed to tackle ‘immense’ homelessness problem: joint statement

By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY – First Nations and city leaders say they are committed to working together on the homelessness crisis in the city following a meeting on Tuesday. “It was very collegial because we all understand how immense this problem is and that the only way of achievement in this is by large-scale community and regional cooperation,” Mayor Ken Boshcoff told Newswatch later that day. Boshcoff met with Chief Michele Solomon of Anemki Wajiw (Fort William First Nation) and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler to discuss the loss of life in the city’s homeless population after Solomon and Fiddler sent a letter to Boshcoff, urging the city to declare a state of emergency. “I think that all the groups who…

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