#mattagami

The forest fire season is ramping up in northern Ontario, prompting evacuations in Mattagami First Nation. The fire hazard is currently rated extreme across a large area running from Sudbury to Dryden. One fire in particular, Timmins 9, is 464 hectares in size and is located 10 kilometres north of Gogama, eight kilometres west of Highway 144, and 14 kilometres west of Mattagami First Nation. Jennifer Constant, chief of Mattagami FN, confirmed to CTV News that evacuations of about 160 people by bus began Wednesday morning because of Timmins 9. The fire is about 13 kilometres away.

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Eye-popping essay on Indigenous-settler relations written in 1912. Wrapped up in very familiar racist stereotypes and Canadian historical revisionism, the essay centres upon Canada "paying rent" to "the silent and servile landlord of the Dominion of Canada".

"For Nature has decreed that the Indian race must cease to be. Gifted with many strong characteristics, he lacks the saving quality of adaptability, and has assimilated only the baser attributes of the Caucasian."

@ONgov ignoring #EnviroDisaster in Gogama video @NickelBelt @OntarioNDP @envirodefence @environmentca @Water @IndigenousON @UN4Indigenous @Kathleen_Wynne @OntLiberal @environmentca

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19807208/Q5_G%C3%A9linas_09-14-16.mp4 QUEEN’S PARK, ON – Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas called on the Wynne government to stop ignoring the ongoing environmental disaster in Gogama and order CN to remove all of the oil from the water.  “The people of Mattagami First Nation and Gogama were promised that their natural environment would be brought back to what…