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Indigenous Land: Canada’s Toxic Storehouse

Lurking behind these efforts, so far away you can barely see it, there is a massive health crisis in Canada. According to a Treasury Board of Canada Inventory on contaminated sites, there are 4,464 toxic sites within the treaty territories of Indigenous People in Canada. That's roughly 1.5 sites for all of Canada's 2,720 Reserves - though in reality, some reserves have upwards of a dozen sites, where others have none. Here's the link to the inventory and directions on how to navigate.

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