Pikangikum

Attawapiskat isn’t a hopeless slum because we haven’t been paying enough attention, says Scott Gilmore. It’s because of its location and its infrastructure.

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.

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.