It’s a responsibility she takes seriously. “Our infrastructure is just too old…All we can do is monitor. Are your kids drinking lead tainted water? Women from Oneida Nation of the Thames and several other First Nations marched through Oneida to bring awareness to what the women are calling a growing drug problem. “A number of women gathered and said we need to take back our community because of the behaviour of our men and the state of emergency. We’re just lucky that nothing has happened.”, READ MORE: January 10, 2017 - 11:11 am by Dawn Doxtater, December 17, 2016 - 12:28 pm by Lloyd Switzer, Personal Health Information Protection Act, Any information held by Oneida Nation Council should, in general, be available to the public, Any exemptions from the right of access to information should be limited and specific, Any person may make a request for information held by Oneida Nation Council. The Oneida Nation Council establishes a general right of access to records held by Oneida Nation Council, boards and commissions using these principles: The Oneida Nation Council holds or has control of a wide number of general records and personal information banks. couples left in the lurch, out thousands after adoption agency closes, Canadian couple forced to quarantine at home after being denied entry at U.S. border, SNL cold open spoofs VP Debate with Jim Carrey as the fly on Mike Pence's head, Footage shows packed dance floor at Saskatoon nightclub, RCMP directive eliminates wearing of ‘Thin Blue Line’ amid public conversations regarding 'the role of police', Fire in Montreal apartment building leaves 12 families without a home, B.C. Her landlord didn’t tell her the home she rented had lead pipes — and he didn’t have to. Since meeting over a month ago the women have a constant fire burning outside the Oneida community centre which, they say will continue to burn until a centre is built.

“I would not drink that water. “The existing treatment system does not meet the federal protocol/provincial regulations,” it reads. Contrast this with what happens 30 kilometres south in Glencoe, a similar-sized town where a water main break led to a boil water advisory in July 2018. A huge bottle is the main source of water in Jennifer George’s Kitchen in Oneida Nation. With the assistance of the Institute for Investigative Journalism, Concordia University. READ MORE: “It was nice the prime minister promised the elimination of all boil water advisories, but the thing that just galls me is every time we kick one advisory out, we have another one coming on.

In 2011, consulting engineering firm Neegan Burnside, in a report for the federal government on drinking water quality in First Nation and Indigenous communities, noted that Oneida failed guidelines in four categories, including health, esthetics and design. Oneida Nation of the Thames women take stand against drugs in their community. Forward your request for an appeal with the appropriate appeal fee to the Commissioner’s office. After a moment, she compliments its taste. For requests that involve a large number of records, require an extensive search, or consultation with an external third party, the time limit can be extended. The entrance to Oneida Nation of the Thames, southwest of London, Ont., is seen from Little Church Drive on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. It shouldn’t be that way.”. Overall, the treatment system was awarded scores of zero out of three for removing cryptosporidium, a parasite that causes gastrointestinal illnesses and is potentially life-threatening for people with weakened immune systems, and giardia, a parasite that causes the diarrheal illness known as giardiasis. Where a request involves a large number of records or requires an extensive search for records, Oneida Nation Council will provide you with a time extension based on the estimated number of hours it will take staff to search for the records. Thousands of test results show high lead levels across the country, “I was told there were problems but I don’t think that we understood the depth of what that really meant because we had no confirming evidence,” said Hill. https://globalnews.ca/news/7164847/oneida-women-take-stand-against-drugs London didn’t start notifying Oneida of sewage dumps until mid-2018, say Oneida leaders, including Chief Hill. Here’s how Metlakatla First Nation in British Columbia tackles acidic water. In July, much of southern Ontario was preparing for a heatwave which pushed thermometers past 40 degrees with the humidex. “Indigenous Services Canada really doesn’t want to know what the real numbers are — it’s never been in their interests,” he says. “We felt if we come together as women in the community, we could do something together, and it would make more of an impact,” she said. Requests for information held by Oneida Nation Council are made to the Political office Executive Assistant who is responsible for managing Council information. We cannot remediate.”. Hill says the ISC response is mixed messaging that has confused many in the community. On the other side of the gravel road, the township of Southwold draws its water from Lake Erie and is fed by a treatment system that received a $176-million upgrade last year. We are worried about the future generations,” Doxtator said. But ISC officials support Oneida’s boil water advisory, saying they take the concerns raised by the engineering report “very seriously” and that they are working with the community to “determine how best to improve the water treatment infrastructure in order to meet the required standards.”. To date, Oneida has received none of the $10.89 million it requires for its water treatment facilities to reach provincial standards, based on an estimate by the Ontario First Nation Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC), an advisory service that works with the federal government. “When it comes to my kids drinking the water, I’m afraid,” says George, a 55-year-old with eight grandchildren. In Oneida, advisories are not met with much fanfare; many in the community say they don’t even notice them. “It’s in there. “I give my biggest beef here to all the municipalities around us that received money to bring up their water systems after Walkerton [tainted water scandal] to meet renewed standards,” says Hill, who stopped drinking from her water tap in 2002.

So far this year, more than 5.7 million litres of London’s raw, untreated sewage — including commercial and industrial waste — has been dumped into the river, according to city data. More recent testing shows much lower levels but occasional exceedances remain. Over 60 people, the majority of whom were women, participated in the demonstration on Friday afternoon. The secrets of Canada’s tap water, explained. couples left in the lurch, out thousands after adoption agency closes, Canadian couple forced to quarantine at home after being denied entry at U.S. border, SNL cold open spoofs VP Debate with Jim Carrey as the fly on Mike Pence's head, Footage shows packed dance floor at Saskatoon nightclub, RCMP directive eliminates wearing of ‘Thin Blue Line’ amid public conversations regarding 'the role of police', Fire in Montreal apartment building leaves 12 families without a home, B.C. What do you do if you find lead in your tap water in Canada? READ MORE: 26, 2019. They have failed, it’s definite.”, “If we invoke the Ontario regulations for all the First Nations here…we’ll probably double the number of boil-water advisories overnight,” Baker says. Tears well up in her eyes as she stares at the blue bottle she drinks from.

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