Living and dying in Pikangikum
Maclean’s recently visited Pikangikum, an Ojibwa community of about 2400 in northwestern Ontario, which is thought to have the highest suicide rate in the world.
Martin Patriquin
Martin Patriquin writes about Quebec and sometimes everything else.
Canada: Home to Pikangikum, suicide capital of the world
In Pikangikum, gas sniffing is rampant and young people are taking their own lives at a shocking rate. A 2012 feature report by Martin Patriquin.
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