A lodge that houses First Nations people from across northern Ontario who travel to Thunder Bay, Ont., for medical treatment is headed toward bankruptcy, according to its executive director.
Wequedong Lodge is a 110-bed facility that has been over capacity for years. It spends about $1 million per month on hotel rooms for those it can’t accommodate, and at its peak, it served more than 500 clients in one day.
Meanwhile, it’s been receiving complaints about long wait times for intake and rides, and phone calls left unanswered, “which are all a result of lack of capacity to serve the ever-growing number of clients,”
