Harry Wabasse's home in Webequie First Nation is about 70 kilometres from Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining region. A nearby mine and a road to the region could change his life forever.
"They're private sector entities for whom their priority is to do what's best for their business. And that doesn't make them evil, but it does mean they don't belong here.”
The much awaited final episode in season two of Canada’s National Observer’s award-winning podcast The Salmon People dropped today. Throughout season two, investigative reporter Sandra Bartlett brings you the very best of what boots-on-the-ground Canadian journalism has to offer, taking listeners on an epic journey to the rugged shores of the West Coast, and into the next chapter of the battle to save wild Pacific salmon from extinction.In the final episode, Sandra examines the impact industrial fish farms closures will have on Indigenous communities and explores what other options are available to these First Nations.
Just days before Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray was expected to announce a decision on the closure of fish farms in the Discovery Islands, a last-minute study on sea lice shocked the scientific community.
