Nunavut kids in care face loneliness, despair as millions spent to send them south – Global News

March 4, 2024

On the line was a representative from a company operating group homes for youth in southern Ontario, more than 3,000 kilometres away.

She said the caller had a request: they wanted kids from Nunavut.

“They would call up and go like, ‘We’ve got three empty beds,’” said MacIntosh, who was a supervisor for Nunavut’s Department of Family Services between 2012 and 2017 and is now retired.

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