October 3 2024
First Nations opposing nuclear waste burial in northwestern Ontario are growing in number and are now mobilizing across the region.
A fledgling movement of Indigenous leaders hosted a small rally with non-Indigenous allies in Thunder Bay on Wednesday, with a refrain of “Gaa-Wiin,” the Anishinaabemowin word meaning “no” to nuclear waste burial.
The demonstration followed a letter signed by nine chiefs last week, asking the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to respect their will not to bury Canada’s most radioactive nuclear waste in a deep repository site between the town of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway First Nation.