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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

'Everybody is a fighter in Grassy'

William Bill Fobister remembers when things changed, seemingly overnight. The 79-year-old had grown up fishing across the sprawling English-Wabigoon River system. And the deep blue waters that lap the shores of his Ojibwe community - Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek, better known as Grassy Narrows - had fed his people since time immemorial. [My dad] was a commercial fisherman, and I helped him. That's how we survived, Bill recalls, sitting at a yellow picnic table in his backyard on a rainy August morning.
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fromwww.cbc.ca
4 months ago

Protester gets on Ford Fest stage in Etobicoke at annual Ontario PC event | CBC News

A protester confronted Premier Doug Ford during a celebratory event, emphasizing issues faced by Grassy Narrows while Ford emphasized peace and infrastructure development.
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