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Webinar: HSJCC (Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee) on Addiction on Jan 12, 2017
This is the first of a three-part series on Addiction: Overview of Addiction and Substance Misuse. It takes place January 12, 2017 between noon and 1 pm, and is presented…
Overt environmental injustice’ continues at Grassy Narrows, medical journal concludes – CBC
New medical research looks at ‘interwoven history of mercury poisoning in Ontario and Japan’ Dec 21, 2016 A medical student at Queen’s University says he was surprised to discover the…
Provincial Government Provides Details of Harvard Professor’s Role in Forthcoming Methylmercury Study
October 20, 2016 The Provincial Government is clarifying the role of Harvard Professor Dr. Elsie Sunderland in a new methylmercury study announced yesterday as part of a series of enhanced…
Canada Invests $4 million to expand the Safe Water Project in Northwestern Ontario First Nation Communities
October 13, 2016 – Dryden, ON – Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada All Canadians — including First Nations —should have access to safe, clean and reliable drinking water. Yesterday, the…
Ottawa promises to build new treatment plant for reserve plagued by brown water – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 4, 2016 ST. PETERS, N.S. _ The federal government is promising to build a new treatment plant at a First Nation in Cape Breton, where residents say their…
Band councillor decries brown, smelly water pouring from taps on N.S. reserve – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 3, 2016 ST. PETERS, N.S. _ A councillor from a Cape Breton native reserve says residents are fed up with the thick, brown water pouring out of their…
Sustainable Solution Provides Fresh Produce to North Caribou Lake First Nation
September 21, 2016 NORTH CARIBOU LAKE FIRST NATION: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Derek Fox says a community garden shows how First Nations are beginning to regain food…
Neurological and birth defects haunt Wabaseemoong First Nation, decades after mercury dumping – CBC
Sep 20, 2016 People in community born without toes, an extra thumb, but few are compensated Forty-five years ago, mercury pollution from a pulp and paper mill poisoned hundreds of…
Canada and Ontario reach agreement under the new Clean Water and Wastewater Fund
41 projects approved for funding Toronto, Ontario, September 14, 2016 The governments of Canada and Ontario are making investments that will help create jobs and grow the middle class now while building a…
Millbrook First Nation: Approval of Glysophate Aerial Spraying
Sep 08, 2016 September 1, 2016 Dear Minister Miller: Re: Approval of Glysophate Aerial Spraying I am writing, having only recently become aware of an approval granted under your authority…
