Friends of SL40

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[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

OPINION: Lack of clean drinking water in our own province is an issue Winnipeggers can't ignore | CBC News https://t.co/Enyqyq5gnw

[Niigaan Sinclair @Niigaanwewidam]

Friday @WinnipegNews #WFP column: Shoal Lake 40 rebuilds community links, eyes fight for future

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[Dennis Ward @DennisWardNews]

Shoal Lake 40 sues Canada, Winnipeg for years without drinking water, road access https://t.co/5uTHBZa2d3

[Dennis Ward @DennisWardNews]

Shoal Lake #40 First Nation has filed a lawsuit against Canada and the City of Winnipeg seeking compensation for the “devastating impacts of the Winnipeg aqueduct, which left the community isolated without road access to the mainland for more than a century.”

[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

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[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

Great turn out for the @theuwsa’s screening of @AngelinaMcLeod & @thenfb’s Freedom Road:

[UWSA @theuwsa]

Freedom Road is a documentary that tells the story of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation and their battle to build a road after their community was relocated from the mainland over 100 years ago, so that water could be diverted to Winnipeg. Tickets at https://t.co/V2yEgikJwa.

[Nishnawbe Aski Nation @NANComms]

30 left homeless after apartment complex fire in Shoal Lake No. 40
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[Martha Troian @ozhibiiige]

'Why has it taken 134 years?': First Nations in Manitoba, Ontario move closer to flood compensation
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[Cindy Blackstock @cblackst]

Breaking news! Federal Court dismisses both federal government appeals- the Tribunal’s compensation decision and decision for First Nations kids off reserve get help under Jordan’s Principle stand!

[APTN News @APTNNews]

'It’s about damn time': After decades of suffering without clean, safe drinking water, Shoal Lake 40's new $29-million treatment facility was turned on and community members can now drink from their taps. | @michellekarlenz
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[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

‘About damn time’: First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait | Canada | The Guardian https://t.co/UXEgF7RrjJ

[NCTR @NCTR_UM]

'Fought hard for this day': Decades-old water advisory lifted for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation https://t.co/3hExPsFs8S

[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

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[Melissa Martin @DoubleEmMartin]

A toast: the first glasses of officially safe tap drinking water in Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in over 24 years. The community’s new water treatment plant is humming along; its quarter-century boil water advisory was lifted today.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

‘Fought hard for this day’: Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, a community on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary, is welcoming clean, running water for the first time in nearly 25 years https://t.co/jjGGhfKSyS via @globeandmail #Indigenous #sdoh #cdnpoli

[Christopher Moonias @can_ndn]

Since Neskantaga FN has been under boil water advisory the following has been PM.
(L) Jean Chrétien 1993 - 2003
(L) Paul Martin 2003 - 2006
(PC) Stephen Harper 2006 - 2015
(L) Justin Trudeau 2015 - Present
Neskantaga FN is in its 9721st consecutive day of Boil Water Advisory

[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

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[Friends of SL40 @FriendsofSL40]

Some long, long, loooong overdue good news from #ShoalLake40: https://t.co/91aihzJGRg

[Are.we.there.yet? Cuyler Cotton @CuylerCotton]

#ShoalLake40 asks #Kenora not to celebrate Canada.

[Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup]

Please take the time to watch this excellent video by my @globeandmail colleagues on the situation in Shoal Lake 40. https://t.co/lqdC58nqf2 #cdnpoli