First Nations issues and heart-stopping highway videos got CBC Thunder Bay readers clicking in 2014.

Read on for our annual wrap-up:

No. 5

Thunder Bay resident Greg Ulok and his daugher Xenia were recently bumped from a Porter Airlines flight. They were headed to Toronto for one of Xenia's cancer treatments. (Jeff Walters/CBC) One of CBC Thunder Bay's last stories of the year proved to be one of its most popular.

When Thunder Bay resident Greg Ulok and his 16-year-old daughter Xenia were recently bumped from a flight to Toronto, he brought the public's attention to the matter.

The pair were on their way for Xenia's cancer treatment, when they were told they were being bumped because they paid the lowest fare for their seats.

But his daughter could not miss the chemotherapy appointment, Ulok said, and he thought someone else might have been willing to take a different flight.

Read the original story here, and a follow-up story here.

No. 4

Back in March, a video of a crash between two vehicles on Highway 17 west of Kenora, Ont., helped Ontario Provincial Police lay a charge of distracted driving against a Manitoba man.

Christopher Lord, 36, of La Broquerie, Man. was charged with failing to yield to traffic at an intersection — as well as operating a motor vehicle with a handheld communication device — in the aftermath of the March 1 collision. (Ralph Ireland/Facebook) Kenora OPP said Christopher Lord, 36, of La Broquerie, Man. was charged with failing to yield to traffic at an intersection — as well as operating a motor vehicle with a handheld communication device — in the aftermath of the March 1 collision.

The crash happened at the west intersection of Highway 17 and 17A near Kenora, and was recorded by a dash-cam in the eastbound vehicle. The video shows a northbound pickup truck failed to stop for the stop sign.

Kenora OPP said video provided "further evidence" to assist in laying charges against Lord.

Lord was treated at the scene for minor injuries and the driver and a passenger in the eastbound vehicle, Ralph and Ifka Ireland of Sioux Lookout, Ont., were transported to the Lake of the Woods District Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Video of the collision went viral, garnering thousands of shares on Facebook.

Ireland said he's lucky to be alive after the crash.

"Had I not hit the brakes, he'd be dead. And we might be as well."

Ireland said he and his wife were heading home after a trip to Winnipeg when they collided with the truck.

WARNING: Explicit audio.

Fast forward to the 1 minute mark to witness the collision.

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No. 3 & No. 2

The second and third most popular stories on CBC Thunder Bay's website in 2014 involved a hair-raising dash-cam video recording and the police investigation that followed.

Ontario Provincial Police managed to track down a truck driver they believe was involved in a near-crash on a highway near Nipigon, north of Thunder Bay, on Jan. 4, 2014

(YouTube)

The video, which was recorded by the northbound driver, showed him being forced to steer his transport truck into guardrails alongside Highway 11 to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming tractor-trailer that was in the process of passing a snowplow.

The driver of the oncoming transport truck continued south on Highway 11.

After examining and enhancing the video, OPP were able to identify the vehicle involved in the incident.

OPP ended up charging Akmal Hayat of Milton, Ont., with careless driving. The 31-year-old was also charged with failing to remain and report.

In a news release, Nipigon OPP detachment commander Staff Sgt. Randy Bye said "it was obvious from the video ... that this incident could have easily resulted in much more tragic circumstances."

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Art Ginter, the driver whose dashboard camera captured the event, said he doesn't "like a lot of attention, but when this happened I was not really left with much choice but to do what I did."

Identifying the driver helped Ginter with his insurance claim, he said.

No. 1

Darlene Necan is hoping she won't become homeless again. Ontario says she's built her home on crown land. But the Aboriginal woman says her family has lived there for years. 6:00 CBC Thunder Bay's top news story for 2014 involved a First Nations woman in northern Ontario who was issued a stop-work order and faced the possibility of thousands of dollars in fines for attempting to build a cabin in the place where she grew up.​

Darlene Necan, a member of the Ojibways of Saugeen First Nation, said she has been unable to acquire housing in that community, about 400 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, since the reserve was created in the late 1990s.

In 2013, Necan began building — with donated materials — on land where her family home once stood, 20 kilometres south of her reserve, in the unorganized township of Savant Lake, Ont.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry charged Necan with breaches of the Public Lands Act that carry potential fines of up to $10,000, and up to an additional $1,000 fine each time she is caught continuing to build.

A spokesperson for the ministry later said it offered Necan a chance to buy the land where she's building a house, prior to charging her with violations of the Public Lands Act.

Enforcement officers tried for nine months to come to a mutually agreeable solution, said Todd Lane, press secretary to Natural Resources and Forestry Minister Bill Mauro, but Necan did not accept any of their offers.

A group of 49 Ontario residents wrote a letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne in November, urging her to do something about Necan's situation.

But the response from Wynne's office has left their questions unanswered.