Eight Weeks in a Toronto Hotel, and Neskantaga's Repairs Have Only Begun

Neskantaga First Nation's most vulnerable members were sent to a hotel in Toronto nearly eight weeks ago. Remediation work on the nursing station that forced the evacuation has only just started, and some community members now worry they won't get home before the snow falls.

That gap — between the evacuation's speed and the repair work's pace — is the practical problem. Northern Ontario winter is the deadline nobody set.