By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  THUNDER BAY – Pays Plat First Nation member Sharlene Bourdeau Waboose was clear about her reason for participating in Wednesday’s rally at Waverley Park. “Because Pays Plat is against the burial of nuclear waste in the North,” she said just before the rally got underway. Leaders “have to think of the next seven generations,” she said, and the deep geological repository’s proponents “are not thinking of the next seven generations. “I’m thinking of a couple of hundred years from now. Something that’s manmade is not going to last, then it’s going to poison the environment.” Bourdeau Waboose was among nearly 200 people who gathered in the north-side city park for a rally against nuclear waste storage in Northwestern Ontario. Julia Rusnak, a Lac

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