By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY — Councillor-at-large Rajni Agarwal says the city is better off chasing a potential $60 million from the federal government to build permanent housing rather than using the $2.8 million the province has committed for a temporary shelter village. The agenda for council’s Tuesday meeting included a notice that Agarwal’s motion to remove the temporary village from the city’s 10-part Human Rights-Based Community Action Plan, which will be up for debate on Oct. 21, but it won’t be discussed in council until then. Just days before the debate on the Hillyard site, Ottawa announced $13 billion Build Canada Homes Fund and set aside $1 billion for homelessness initiatives, said Agarwal in an interview with Newswatch ahead of Tuesday’s meeting. She said…
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