Housing Shortage: Theresa Spence

Theresa Spence: She is hopeful that the extra money will help ease her reserves chronic housing shortage, according to CBC. Spence, 49, fended off three contenders in the band council election for another three-year term in the remote James Bay community in northern Ontario and Theresa Spence is putting new revenue-sharing deals with the federal and provincial governments, as well as mining companies, on the top of her agenda after being re-elected as chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Tuesdays election. She is also counting on the expansion of a neighbouring diamond mine to generate more revenue for the band and create employment for people in Attawapiskat. Theresa Spence shakes hands with a voter. Erik White/ (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.