Donor pledges C$380,000 for suicide prevention in First Nations community

Wapekeka First Nation were denied federal funds to hire mental health workers months before declaring state of emergency over suicides of two 12-year-old girlsA private donor is being lauded by aboriginal leaders for stepping in “where the government of Canada has failed” after anonymously pledging C$380,000 to provide mental health workers for a suicide-stricken First Nations community in northern Ontario. Related: Death strikes First Nations community, once a leader in suicide prev