Photo: Country food benefits Montreal shelter for native women

Chef Joey Flowers (in red), a McGill University law student from Kuujjuaq, serves up braised bison at a March 20 fundraising dinner at Montreal’s Le Nouveau Palais restaurant to raise money for the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. Nunavut-donated Arctic char and Makivik Corp.-donated shrimp were also on the menu of this fundraiser, called Mamu chu chi nan (“together we are strong” in Naskapi). Flowers and a team of volunteers, including his mother, Emily Mesher, fed about 70 people and raised $12,000 for the Native Women’s Shelter, which was forced to cut back programs last summer when its Aboriginal Healing Foundation money came to an end. (PHOTO BY ALLISON FLOWERS)