Youth4Lakes walkers talk about experience
A group of walkers from Manitoba are took a well-deserved day off Tuesday.
Water
Courts asked to force immediate hearing into Tyendinaga's water issues
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News The mother of a child who died of leukemia…
Tyendinaga parents refuse to hand over medical files to doctor
The parents of three children diagnosed with leukemia on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory are refusing to sign a waiver allowing a doctor to examine their medical records for possibly links.
Tyendinaga hands water files to feds, province
The Tyendinaga band council has handed over copies of reports completed on it’s drinking water to provincial and federal agencies, including Health Canada, to determine the toxicology levels of chemicals found in test wells around at the controversial landfill.
Lake St. Martin residents demand to go home
It’s been nearly two years but thousands of First Nation flood evacuees are still waiting to go home and people are asking one question of the Manitoba government – what are they prepared to do?
I should never have come here five years ago: Tyendinaga mom
The Tyendinaga Mohawk police have been asked to investigate whether the band council has been criminally negligent in its handling of the on-going water crisis where children have recently been diagnosed with cancer and developed body sores.
The battle for water hits Vancouver
A delegation of First Nations people traveled from northern British Columbia to Vancouver this week.
PM's ex-aide Bruce Carson facing 5 day trial next summer
Bruce Carson, a former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, will face trial next summer on an influence peddling charge linked to an Ottawa water company’s attempt to sell water filtration systems
Women need to reclaim traditional authority to protect water, says elder
We often hear about the lack of access to clean drinking water in Aboriginal communities and the right to access traditional waterways.