By Steve Lambert THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG-First Nations leaders are renewing their push for an all-season road on the east side of Lake Winnipeg that would connect several remote communities to goods, services and health care in the south. They are calling on the federal and Manitoba governments to pay for a 252-kilometre road that would run from Berens River in the south, where the existing year-round road system ends, to St. Theresa Point in the north. St. Theresa Point is part of the Island Lake region, which has more than 10,000 residents in communities including Wasagamack and Garden Hill. The region is currently accessible only by air and, for a few months each year, by winter road. “Our proposal and plan is an affordable solution that provides immediate benefits,”…
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