The tiny Northern Ontario Aboriginal community of Attawapiskat, the site of a long struggle to obtain an elementary school for local children, is facing a crisis.

How many other Aboriginal communities across Canada have been left to wither and die like this?

In other news, the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs is fixing to underbus a munchkin or two after it was revealed by APTN that his Ministry has been spying on Aboriginal children’s advocate Cindy Blackstock.

Is Stephen Harper working on a twenty-volume sequel to that apology of his?