Young Indigenous basketball players from across the province will be hitting the court in Thunder Bay this spring. The fifth Ontario Native Basketball Invitational (ONBI) will take place in the city in April, and will bring up to 16 basketball teams to the city, said Mark Laliberte, president of Indigenous Sport and Wellness Ontario (ISWO), which hosts the tournament. Some of the teams are affiliated with schools — for example, Laliberte said Thunder Bay's Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School is entering a team — and some will be community-based teams. "We want the youth that visit Thunder Bay to get a sense of what our city's about, and an appreciation for what Thunder Bay has to offer." Games will be played at three Thunder Bay high schools: Westgate, Hammarskjold, and Superior CVI, Laliberte said.

Source: CBC News February 25, 2019 12:56 UTC