Grand & Toy selling paper clear cut from aboriginal territory

(Jan 30, 2008) (The Canadian Press) TORONTO -- An environmental group is calling on office-supply company Grand & Toy to stop selling paper made from trees cut in aboriginal territory.

Members of the Rainforest Action Network protested at the company's headquarters in Toronto today by chaining themselves together.

Network spokesman Jacob Pries says the company continues to sell paper clear cut from areas near the Grassy Narrows territory in northwestern Ontario.

The group says Grand & Toy's parent company OfficeMax pledged to end the practice last year after aboriginals called for an end to the cuts.

Pries says the Toronto action was "in solidarity" with aboriginals and that similar protests took place in 30 cities across North America.

There was no immedate response from Grand & Toy.


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