{"id":37918,"date":"2020-10-20T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=37918"},"modified":"2020-10-20T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:04:09","slug":"mamakwa-demands-support-for-neskantaga-evacuation-during-public-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/20\/mamakwa-demands-support-for-neskantaga-evacuation-during-public-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamakwa demands support for Neskantaga evacuation during public health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35566\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sol_mamakwa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35566\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sol_mamakwa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sol_mamakwa.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sol_mamakwa-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sol Mamakwa, (Kiiwetinoong)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sol Mamakwa, NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong, is calling on Doug Ford\u00a0to make every effort to\u00a0support the residents of Neskantaga\u00a0who are being evacuated due to the\u00a0complete shutdown of all running\u00a0water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cDoug Ford must ensure that the provincial government supports the evacuation of elders, children and the most vulnerable in the community who need assistance immediately.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Losing running water to the entire community during COVID-19 is a disaster, and can put the lives of residents at risk.\u00a0 All services have been shut down\u00a0due to the public health emergency,\u00a0including health services and schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>After 9,393 days (over 25 years) without clean water, the community now has to endure no-water-at-all.\u00a0What will it take for the Ford government to take action?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Would this be allowed to happen to non-First Nations communities? Are we less than human in the premier&#8217;s eyes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Doug Ford must support the evacuation of\u00a0 Neskantaga now and then help solve the clean water issue in the community once and for all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sol Mamakwa, NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong, is calling on Doug Ford\u00a0to make every effort to\u00a0support the residents of Neskantaga\u00a0who are being evacuated due to the\u00a0complete shutdown of all running\u00a0water. \u201cDoug Ford must ensure that the provincial government supports the evacuation of elders, children and the most vulnerable in the community who need assistance immediately.\u00a0 Losing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":35566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 17:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37919,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918\/revisions\/37919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}