Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned

By Arn Keeling, Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
John Sandlos, Professor, Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Decades of gold mining at Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has left a toxic legacy: 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored in underground chambers.

As a multi-billion government remediation effort to clean up the mine site and secure the underground arsenic ramps up, the Canadian government is promising to deal with the mine’s disastrous consequences for local Indigenous communities.

In March, the minister for Crown-Indigenous relations…

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