October 13, 2020

Hunger strike after family services agency cancels Thanksgiving weekend

An Eagle Lake First Nation great-grandmother is on day four of a hunger strike. She started it last week when Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services canceled Thanksgiving weekend with her four great grand-children who are in foster care with non-Indigenous families.

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