TORONTO, ONT-Lynn Rosales is in her 60s now, but since birth she has known “nothing other than the Chemical Valley, nothing other than smokestacks and sounds and smells,” she said in an interview with Canada’s National Observer. When she was young, the industry was not accountable or transparent about what it was “spewing into the water, what it was spewing into the land.” It was all “free game,” said Rosales, who today works in the environment department at Aamjiwnaang First Nation. On Thursday, at a press conference in Queen’s Park, Aamjiwnaang’s new chief, Janelle Nahmabin, sent a message to the media, the public, and Queen’s Park officials about the resilience and fight of Aamjiwnaang against environmental abuses. “Aamjiwnaang will no longer be known as the community that is a victim…
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