Exploring Stakeholder: "Fed. Govt"

Toronto rally calls for compensation to people affected by Grassy Narrows mercury poisoning CBC News: People from the community of Grassy Narrows in northwestern Ontario held a rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto Wednesday to raise awareness about the impact of mercury poisoning in the area. As CBC’s Ali Chiasson explains, they’re calling for compensation...

Maclean’s – Shoal Lake 40 grabbed national attention when its members used a brassy campaign tactic, protesting outside Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights in 2014 to point out a glaring contradiction: the water flowing through the museum’s taps came from an isolated community without clean water and a road. Hundreds marched on the city’s...

CBC – It took the federal and provinvial governments 100 years to re-connect Shoal Lake # 40 First Nation to the mainland after construction of an aqueduct in 1919 resulted in flooding that cut them off from the mainland and eventually from their own source of drinking water. Winnipeg gets its drinking water from Shoal...