By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, SNnewswatch.com GINOOGAMING — Why does Ginoogaming First Nation have security checkpoints with drug-detecting dogs? Because “we have to do more,” Chief Sheri Taylor told Newswatch during the first week of the new protocol at the bridge into Ginoogaming. The First Nation has contracted a Moosonee-based company to deploy highly trained drug-sniffing canines at the bridge connecting Ginoogaming to Longlac, and at a road entrance to the south. A sign before the bridge warns that drivers may be asked to “present identification or verify business when entering the Ginoogaming First Nation homeland.” It also says they may be subject to a search, and that “police will be notified” if illegal substances or weapons are found. The community was shaken last Oct. 8 by the…
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