| Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s Freedom Road Backgrounder (pdf) UPDATED: 12/11/16 10:14 AM |
Mr. Prime Minister, we thank you for coming to share this day with us. You have seen and heard a lot and you have been generous with your time and your availability to our people. It’s appreciated because their daily reality has been ignored for a very long time. (full statement)
- Isolated Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to get its ‘Freedom Road’
- Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
- Freedom Road Answers Shoal Lake 40 Grandmother’s Prayers
- Hundreds march in support of Shoal Lake Freedom Road
- With no clean water for 17 years, hundreds rally for federal action for Shoal Lake
- Ottawa committed to building road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, August 10, 2015
- Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Regional Director General approves $1M contribution for detailed design of Freedom Road – May 15, 2014
- Joint Manitoba/Winnipeg request to Canada to commit to construction of Freedom Road. -April 14, 2015
- Metro News – It’s time to pay the water bill we owe Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- CBC News – Shoal Lake reserve residents weep as Ottawa balks at funding road construction
- CBC News – City of Winnipeg to begin bridge construction at Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Kenora Daily Miner – Shoal Lake 40 support for highway twinning hinges on Freedom Road construction guarantees
Ontario’s Minister of Transportation (image) - David Suzuki Blog- Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada
- NNL – Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada – David Suzuki
- Winnipeg Free Press – Museum eyes band’s complaint about water
- APTN – Shoal Lake #40 is hoping international community can help with water woes
- APTN – Part 1 Shoal Lake 40 out to make a statement with different kind of museum
- APTN – Part 2 Living in ‘Alcatraz’
- CBC News – Shoal Lake No. 40 gets backing from IJC
- Winnipeg Free Press – Watchdog backs Shoal Lake bands
- The Star – Aboriginal rights: A simple matter of rights denied
- WN (international) – Shoal Lake No. 40 gets written backing from cross-border watchdog
- CBC News – Sacred fire planned at human rights museum to highlight First Nations water issues
- Kenora News – Shoal Lake 40 to open Museum of Canadian Human Rights Violations
- The Council of Canadians Winnipeg Chapter – museum-of-canadian-human-rights-violations
- Shoal Lake #40 Press Release – Museum of Canadian Human Rights Violations
- Jon Thompson’s coverage of the “Price of Water” Jon Thompson’s coverage of the “Price of Water”
- The Council of Canadians blog www.canadians.org/blog/price-water-shoal-lake-40
- Kenora Online: Shoal Lake 40 shares stories of devastation and anger Thursday, 10 July 2014 – See more
- CBC News by Wab Kinew: Human rights museum needs to act on First Nations right to water
- CBC News: First Nation urges human rights museum to acknowledge ‘hypocrisy’
- CBC Radio: Amnesty International visits Shoal Lake #40 First Nation in Northwestern Ontario
- Winnipeg Free Press: Living in isolation – Shoal Lake gives Winnipeg water, but band must endure consequences
PRESS RELEASE
- Nov 6, 2014 International Joint Commission to Canada Accountiabilty
- Sept 15, 2014 Museum of Canadian Human Rights Violations
- July 7, 2014 Human Rights Museum Staff to Visit Shoal Lake #40 First Nation, July 9th
- May 29, 2014 Winnipeg’s Human Rights Museum “A Shrine to Canadian Hypocrisy” says Shoal Lake #40 Chief
- May 27, 2014 Letter to Antoine Predock, Museum For Human Rights Architect
- Apr 29, 2013 Shoal Lake #40 First Nation Position Upheld: International Joint Commission Rejects Winnipeg’s Water Sale Scheme
- Jan 11th, 2012 Prime Minister Harper Asked to Uphold Legal Obligations
- Dec 12, 2012 Shoal Lake #40 Will Oppose City of Winnipeg at International Joint Commission