Dryden area: Red circles indicate where worker says he dumped mercury. Star reporters and volunteers from Earthroots took soil samples from behind an old paper mill, 100 kilometres upstream from Grassy Narrows, which revealed significantly elevated levels of mercury By JAYME POISSON and DAVID BRUSER ...
The federal government has a responsibility to clean up mercury in Grassy Narrows’ river from Grassy Narrows support The chief of Grassy Narrows sent three letters to the Prime Minister in the past year, urging him to take action to clean up the mercury in the English-Wabigoon river system. Yes...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times Students across Simcoe County could soon have a new daily ritual. A Simcoe County District School Board committee approved a plan Tuesday to formally recognize the area’s First Nations roots with a phrase students might eventually be asked to say every day...
Democracy Now On Sunday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the Dakota Access pipeline company a permit to drill underneath the Missouri River—officially halting construction of the $3.8 billion oil pipeline that has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota and mem...
October 17 update: Judge Rejects “Riot” Charges Against Amy Goodman in North Dakota Fear and loathing in North Dakota By Linda Solomon Wood National Observer October 14th 2016 On Monday October 17, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow! will turn herself in to North ...
WHEN Saturday October 15th, 2016 8:30 a.m.—12:00 p.m. (noon) WHERE Downtown Chimnissing Volunteers Needed! Light Refreshments Provided! TD’s flagship volunteer program invites TD employees, their families and friends, and community partners to plant trees in communities across Canada and to demonstra...
A Japanese research team, which examined dozens of people of all ages in both First Nation communities during a 2014 trip, found that nearly all those tested had sensory disturbance — a telltale sign of mercury poisoning By DAVID BRUSER and JAYME POISSON Toronto Star The young generations of Grassy N...
A new scientific report says adding more mercury to the area near Grassy Narrows First Nation is “irresponsible” and “shameless” By JAYME POISSON and DAVID BRUSER Toronto Star Top environment ministry officials had serious concerns that a plan to clear-cut log a swath of the boreal forest near Grassy...
By DAVID BRUSER and JAYME POISSON Toronto Star Grassy Narrows First Nation is demanding the federal government reveal the names of at least 143 of its residents who were identified at birth by federal health officials as being at risk for mercury poisoning. Health Canada has so far refused, citing pr...
from the Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre 16th Annual traditional Pow Wow – A Path to Health and Healing September 10 & 11 presented in partnership with Sainte-Marie among the Hurons Sainte-Marie Park – Highway 12 at Wye Valley Road, Midland, adjacent the Martyrs’ Shrine. Grand e...
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