By Matteo Cimellaro\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Chrissy Isaacs’s grandson knows the water is sick. He freaks out when he sees someone drinking from the tap. All he has known are big blue water jugs. That\u2019s why Isaac gets emotional today. She\u2019s from Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation), near the Manitoba and Ontario border, about 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. She has been fighting for environmental justice in her community since she was a youth. Today, she is a grandmother, \u201cI’m still here fighting, you know, and it shouldn’t be that way.\u201d For more than 50 years, Isaac\u2019s community has faced a methylmercury poisoning crisis that has affected five generations of community members. On average, people here live only into their 50s or 60s, which is at… <\/p>\n
By Matteo Cimellaro\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Chrissy Isaacs’s grandson knows the water is sick. He freaks out when he sees someone drinking from the tap. All he has known are big blue water jugs. That\u2019s why Isaac gets emotional today. She\u2019s from Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation), near the Manitoba and Ontario border, about 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. She has been fighting for environmental justice in her community since she was a youth. Today, she is a grandmother, \u201cI’m still here fighting, you know, and it shouldn’t be that way.\u201d For more than 50 years, Isaac\u2019s community has faced a methylmercury poisoning crisis that has affected five generations of community members. On average, people here live only into their 50s or 60s, which is at... <\/p>\n