[news] Canada’s Third World: The Plight of the Lubicon Cree

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Imagine a community with no running water...and the closest bathroom is an outhouse across the yard [and]...where tuberculosis lurks in the close-knit quarters and gas flares light up the windows, outpacing the morning sun. Imagine a community which sustained itself and its environment for hundreds of years but was swiftly destroyed and degraded in just four short years of oil development...Now imagine that community in the praised ‘first-world’ country, Canada. This is the plight of the Lubicon Cree.

  


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    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_s_third_world_the_plight_of_the_lubicon_cree

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