First Nation

Indigenous Activist Disrupt PDAC2017 Mining Conference in Toronto (VIDEO)

David Gray-Donald — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:18:36 +0000

[Subtitled version available via facebook, click here]

Q&A with Grassy Narrows youth, Iruwa Da Silva

David Gray-Donald — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:05:23 +0000

On why she journeyed 1700 km from home to Toronto

Around 40 community members from Grassy Narrows First Nation are in Toronto to demand their waterways be cleaned of mercury, and clear-cutting on their lands stopped.

Pressure Mounts on Ontario Government to Remediate Grassy Narrows' Waters

David Gray-Donald — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:18:50 +0000

New study outlines possible remediation method; community and supporters take to Toronto streets on Thursday

“The first protest had been in 1975," says Judy Da Silva of Grassy Narrows First Nation. That was just a few years after a pulp mill in Dryden stopped dumping mercury into Grassy Narrows' waterways. By that time, Japanese researchers had come to study the impact. "[Community members] went with the Japanese people and they protested there [at the Dryden mill].