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September 29, 2023 | Vol.66, No.2
‘SHUT IT DOWN’
Jeferson Quiros-Vargas Politics Reporter
More than 6,000 people walked side-by-side from Grange Park towards Queen’s Park on Sept. 27 to raise their voices against the Ford government’s free entry policies on Indigenous territory. Chief Rudy Turtle of the Grassy Narrows First Nation said he has been fighting for decades to protect his land from unregulated corporations.
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“Fifty years later, that Indian problem is still here,” Turtle said. “It’s never been resolved. 50 years later, we’re still raising our voice and we’re still telling the governments, you need to clean the river up.” Chief Turtle was referring to the poisoning of the English-Wabigoon River. In 2019 the Supreme Court found the two companies responsible for contaminating the waters. Water levels continue to be poisonous.
Chief Turtle called upon the people who live in Fort Severn, Fort Albany, Ottawa, along the Hudson Bay and Lowlands to “defend our lands.” Chief Chris Moonias of Neskantaga First Nation spoke about the Ring of Fire in front of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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