They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.

#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.

by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026

Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."

https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true

#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism

“There’s a real sense of of emergency and even panic,” said Mr. Guilbeault, Federal Environment Minister

“We’ve failed Indigenous communities & nations, & we need to do better. And it’s not just me saying it – I think you’ve heard the Premier of Alberta say things that are very similar to that.”

Mr. Guilbeault said he is talking with various federal depts “to see how, on our end, we can do better.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-imperial-oil-leak-indigenous/ #Kearl #Athabasca #Chipewyan #FirstNation #Mikisew #Cree First Nation