Local activists of African and Native American descent are holding big businesses and the government accountable for polluting their water and causing an uptick in cancer cases.
The surprising but very worthy champion of their efforts to expose environmental racism is actress Ellen Page (Juno, Inception), who hails from Nova Scotia.
Louise Delisle, an African Nova Scotian, cites the many cancer deaths in her town of Shelburne, once a thriving refuge for freed slaves, of whom she is a proud descendant.
This time Nova Scotian activists and movie fans are lucky that someone is Ellen Page.
The blueprint for this galvanizing doc is the book by Canadian social/science author Ingrid Waldron, There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities.
