By Sandi Krasowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Around 150 people comprised of representatives from 12 First Nation communities, grassroots First Nations people and supporters filled Waverley Park on Wednesday afternoon in a rally opposing the possible transport and disposal of nuclear waste in the North. The rally came on the heels of the 12 First Nations’ chiefs sending a letter to Nuclear Waste Management Organization president Laurie Swami opposing the potential storage of nuclear waste in Ignace. Many Indigenous people, like elder Katherine Fobister of Grassy Narrows First Nation, are suffering from mercury poisoning found in the rivers and lakes where they gather food. Many fear radiation from the transportation and disposal of nuclear waste would further risk the health of both people and animals. “There’s a plaque in Dryden,…
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