By Kenneth Jackson APTN As The Killers played their last song Sunday wrapping up another year of the massive WayHome music festival, the event’s legal troubles played on. The township says it is investigating the festival for allegedly breaking its permit for the second year in a row, allowing 35,000...
The steady drip of the neurotoxin mercury has percolated through river sediment, the food chain and generations of Grassy Narrows First Nations residents for more than four decades, killing a community’s livelihood and then contaminating its people By David Bruser and Jamie Poisson Toronto Star GRASS...
A new report examining impact of mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation says obvious symptoms are the “tip of the iceberg” By Jayme Poisson and David Bruser Toronto Star The level of mercury found in the umbilical cords of babies in Grassy Narrows First Nation was high enough to affect thei...
Did decades of mercury poisoning play a role in Azraya Kokopenace’s suicide? By Bernie Farber NOW Toronto Her name was Azraya Kokopenace, and she was only 14 years old when she took her life. Police had left the Grassy Narrows First Nation youth at the hospital in Kenora on April 15. She was fo...
Statement from Grassy Narrows Support A few minutes ago, supporters of Grassy Narrows First Nation created a chemical dump on the front steps of Queen’s Park, shutting down Premier Kathleen Wynne’s front door. We are calling on Ontario listen to Grassy and immediately commit to cleaning up the Wabigo...
Mill worker confesses to burying 50 gallons with mercury poison upstream from Grassy Narrows From Grassy Narrows Support Last summer Kas Glowaki, a former Dryden mill worker, made a shocking confession. He admitted to participating in the shallow burial of 50 barrels of salt and highly toxic liquid ...
A retired labourer says that more than 40 years ago he was part of a small crew that “haphazardly” dumped drums of mercury and salt into a pit near Grassy Narrows First Nation where water and fish have long been contaminated by the toxic metal By Jayme Poisson and David Bruser Toronto Star The Ontari...
from the Barrie Native Friendship Centre Saturday June 11, Sunday June 12 – Gshkoziwin:Awakening at Springwater Park June 11 Grand entry: 12 noon and 7 pm / Community Feast 5:30 pm June 12 Grand entry: 12 noon Admission: $5 pp MC: Meeg Snake & Serge Gagnon Rough camping available. No pets ...
Grassy Narrows: The most toxic community in Canada, says scientist By Barb Nahwegahbow Windspeaker “I would say 100 per cent of our people are poisoned by mercury,” said grandmother Judy Da Silva speaking about her community of Grassy Narrows First Nation. “Some of our people don’t even understand t...
By Gisele Winton Sarvis Barrie Examiner Christian Island’s 800 residents have no way to transport vehicles and heavy goods now that its car-carrying ferry the M.V. Sandy Graham has been taken out of service. Transport Canada deemed the ferry unsafe May 7. During testing, it no longer met safety requi...
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