Grassy Narrows Demand Help for Mercury Poisoning

Members of a northwestern Ontario First Nation are urging Ottawa and the provincial government to take action on mercury contamination.
Dozens of residents of Grassy Narrows First Nation made the
18-hundred-kilometer trek to Toronto to take part in a march to the legislature yesterday.
They held aloft a sea of blue fabric and cardboard fish to make it look like a river was flowing toward the legislature.
Grassy Narrows residents say effects from a mill dumping mercury in a river in the 1960s are still being felt.
They say the mercury is still in the water and in the fish.
The residents say it’s causing their health to deteriorate.
The residents are demanding governments acknowledge the mercury poisoning in their people and strengthen federal mercury guidelines.