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Six Nations can’t drink their tap water

There is a community outside Toronto where most people can’t drink their tap water. Patience is running out. Jaela Bernstien reports for CBC on water insecurity in Six Nations of the Grand River. Six ...
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Court challenge for Lake Winnipeg

Canada’s Southern Chiefs’ Organization says it’s taking Manitoba Hydro and the provincial government to court in a Charter challenge to have Lake Winnipeg given all the rights and pr...
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Canada: Water for indigenous people!

UN expert @SRWatSan urges #Canada Image removed. to step up efforts to eliminate discrimination and marginalisation, particularly of its Indigenous Peoples & fully uphold the #HumanRight to water ...
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Canada: Alberta First Nation goes to court

The Ermineskin Cree Nation in Alberta has revived a lawsuit it launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water. They say, Ottawa̵...
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Alberta: mercury not monitored

As the Canadian CBC reports, a hazardous waste processing facility owned by the government of Alberta, Canada, was granted permission by the same government to operate without mercury monitoring equip...
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