Grandmother challenges Ottawa’s refusal to apply Jordan’s Principle to renovate mouldy home
Grandmother challenges Ottawa’s refusal to apply Jordan’s Principle to renovate mouldy home
Joanne Powless, 65 of the Oneida Nation of the Thames is the primary caregiver for her two granddaughters. The family has been fighting Ottawa for three years to fix their mould-contaminated home which has caused the girls, aged eight and 10, to suffer from severe asthma and multiple hospitalizations.

A woman from Oneida Nation of the Thames is appealing a decision that denied funding to renovate a mould-contaminated home that she and says contributed to severe asthma symptoms in her grandchildren.