By Mike Stimpson  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter THUNDER BAY- Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) chiefs declared a “winter roads state of emergency” in the concluding statement for their 2024 Chiefs Winter Assembly. The communique, released Thursday at the end of the three-day summit, also declared a “health state of emergency.” The mild winter has given Ontario’s northern remote communities little to no winter road season so far, Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said. As a result, those communities haven’t received essential supplies that normally come in during winter road season. “The heavy tankers that deliver gas, they haven’t even been able to go up to any of our communities,” he told Dougall Media. What can’t be trucked in will have to be flown in, “and that’s way more expensive,” he said. NAN

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