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First Nation chiefs share safety concerns amid wildfire evacuations in northwestern Ontario
As wildfire evacuees from northwestern Ontario settle in at their accommodations in the southern part of the province, community chiefs are raising concerns about what happens next. Here's the latest on the evacuations in Waba...
#wildfire #evacuation #safety #northwesternOntario #Wabaseemoong #DeerLake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/northwestern-ontario-wildfire-evacuations-1.7550217?cmp=rss

High, extreme fire hazards remain in northwestern Ontario as wildfires rage on
Hundreds of evacuees from Wabaseemoong remain hundreds of kilometres from home due to Kenora 20, a wildfire in northwestern Ontario that's now more than 31,000 hectares large. Here's how one evacuee and her family are faring as the fire hazard r...
#wildfire #hazard #evacuee #emergency #northwesternOntario #Wabaseemoong
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/northwestern-ontario-wildfires-update-1.7540408?cmp=rss

Northwestern Ontario First Nation still facing fire threat despite cooler weather
While most residents of Wabaseemoong Independent Nations have been evacuated, some are choosing to stay in the community despite a serious threat from a nearby forest fire, the chief said.
#fire #weather #evacuation #NorthwesternOntario #Wabaseemoong #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wabaseemoong-evacuation-1.7538534?cmp=rss

Over 800 residents evacuated the Wabaseemoong Independent Nation because of the risk posed by a nearby wildfire.

The nation is located in what is commonly known as northwestern Ontario.

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/ontario/wildfires-force-more-than-800-to-evacuate-northwestern-ontario-first-nation/article_13e5e6ad-b5e4-5e2b-8baa-2c1cfed8bb97.html
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Plus de 800 résidents ont évacué la nation indépendante de Wabaseemoong en raison du risque posé par un feu de forêt à proximité.

La nation est située dans ce que l'on appelle communément le nord-ouest de l'Ontario.

// Article en anglais //

#Wabaseemoong #ONfires #FeuxON

Volunteers in Kenora, Ont., seeking foster homes for cats, dogs from Wabaseemoong
Volunteers in Kenora, Ont., are co-ordinating efforts to rescue cats and dogs from Wabaseemoong, a First Nation that's been under an evacuation order since Tuesday due to a nearby wildfire. Here's how community members are keeping track of the displaced pets until ...
#volunteer #animal #rescue #wildfire #Kenora #Wabaseemoong
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/animal-evacuees-wabaseemoong-1.7537579?cmp=rss

My personal #books #ReadingGoal this year is to find & read every book that Richard Wagamese wrote. I have read 3 of his books so far & loved them. He's one of my fave #Indigenous authors in #Canada.

Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost #IndigenousAuthors & esteemed public speaker & #storyteller. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist & reporter, radio & television broadcaster & producer, documentary producer & author of 14 titles from various #Canadian publishers.

He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. An #Ojibway from the #Wabaseemoong #FirstNation in Northwestern #Ontario, he became the first #NativeCanadian to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel, Keeper’n Me in 1994 & the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel Dream Wheels, in 2007. One Native Life was one of The Globe & Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008 & One Story, One Song was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011.

Indian Horse, the feature film, is based on his book of the same title.

If you haven't read any of his books yet, I highly recommend finding them at your local library 👍📚

‘We want the mill to shut down,’ #GrassyNarrows #FirstNation to #Ontario

After nearly 60 years of industrial poisoning, the northwest #Indigenous community continues to demand justice

September 17 2024
by Jon Thompson

"When members of #Asubpeeschoseewagong #Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) and their supporters arrive at Queen’s Park this week, they’ll be calling for the #DrydenPulpAndPaper mill that’s been poisoning their water with #neurotoxins for nearly 60 years to permanently close.

"'We want everybody to be compensated, we want the mill to shut down, and we don’t want no #mining or #logging in our territory. We just want it all to stop,' says #ChrissyIsaacs, lead organizer of the caravan.

"Isaacs has been a staple of the annual #RiverRun demonstrations since they began in 2010. She was a leader among Grassy Narrows youths who blockaded #LoggingTrucks from entering the nearby #WhiskeyJackForest in 2002 and is currently travelling 1,900 kilometres to Toronto from her community near Ontario’s western border to protest the downriver effects of #methylmercury poisoning.

"Staff at the upstream #ReedPaperMill in #DrydenOntario, about 150 kilometres east of Grassy Narrows, dumped nearly 10 metric tonnes of #mercury into the #EnglishWabigoon River system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mercury poisoned the #plants and #fish that the people of Grassy Narrows, and neighbouring #Wabaseemoong Independent Nation, were consuming.

"A half-century later, medical experts are finding that varying nervous and neurological health effects affect up to 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows residents.

Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation stopped to demonstrate outside of the Dryden mill before heading to Toronto for the annual River Run demonstration at Queen’s Park. There, they will call on the Ontario government to compensate the community for generations of industrial poisoning and call for the mill, now owned by First Quality Enterprises, to be shut down.

"The Grassy Narrows road blockade to prevent clear-cut logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories has stood for 22 years, and in that time Isaacs’s children have had children of their own. She says the conversation has never been transformed as much as it has this year.

"In May, scientific researchers released the revelation that #sulphate and organic matter in the #effluent that the mill is still releasing into the river is making methylmercury in the river system even worse, as opposed to diminishing over time as they were told."

https://ricochet.media/indigenous/we-want-the-mill-to-shut-down-grassy-narrows-first-nation-to-ontario/

#MercuryPoisoning #DirectAction #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericanActivism #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations

Missing Wabaseemoong man located deceased - Isaac MUCKLE - #Wabaseemoong #Ontario #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada

A 37-year-old man reported missing from Wabaseemoong has been located deceased. On Tuesday, March 7 members of the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), T3PS ERT, OPP K9 Unit, and members of the public conducted a search in the Turtle Lake area based on information obtained during...

More Info: https://missingpeople.ca/missing-wabaseemoong-man-located-deceased/

#Wabaseemoong

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