CHARBONNEAU – Terrorists subvert Wet’suwet’en cause
MICHAEL FORTIER was jarred awake at 1:30 a.m. on May 4 by the banging on the drain pipe of his Montreal home. A neighbour was trying to get Fortier’s attention – his two [Continue]
Coastal GasLink
EDITORIAL – We have a right to protest but not a right to break the law
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CONFRONTATION AND ARRESTS are now a common part of public protests rather than an unintended by-product. High-profile interactions between [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Time to take the wraps off the secret Wet’suwet’en deal
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU GOOGLE WET’SUWET’EN these days, most of what pops up is two weeks old. The country has, at least temporarily, forgotten about the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The language of the infiltrators in pipeline dispute
INFILTRATORS OF THE PIPELINE PROTEST intend to shut down dialogue and perpetuate the divisions between us. What was once the sole grievance of hereditary chiefs is now a [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – What assurances did government get on blockades?
Excerpt from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, March 2, 2020. P. Milobar: We, so far, seem to be getting more answers around the rights and title. I’m [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Some questions from a white dude about the death of reconciliation
THIS MOSTLY WHITE DUDE has some questions about the death of reconciliation. I ask these questions of those putting up the “Reconciliation is Dead” signs at the [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Half call for patience, half support use of force
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE February 27, 2020 – As mass arrests and burning tires along rail lines define the state of developments in a country-wide series of blockades in [Continue]
PIPELINE POLITICS – Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos
While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way By BRIAN GIESBRECHT [Continue]
BEPPLE – It’s a big, wide world, and it all eventually comes to Kamloops
EVERYWHERE I WENT this week, there were small signs of the bigger happenings. First I drove to Lytton and back to Kamloops. On railway sidings from Kamloops down to Lytton [Continue]
SUZUKI – Pipeline actions signal need for true reconciliation
ACTIONS BY AND IN SUPPORT of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders are as much about government failure to resolve issues around Indigenous rights and title as they are about [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER: Who’s going to tell RCMP what to do about the blockades?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE SCALE HAS TIPPED irrevocably towards enforcement over dialogue in the Coastal GasLink protests. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says talk [Continue]
KNOX – No one voice can speak for the Wet’suwet’en people
TUESDAY MORNING, a group that included a handful of old white guys who looked, well, kind of like me demonstrated outside the Langford home of Premier John Horgan. In doing [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – Liberals to blame for letting Coastal GasLink issue fester
Remarks by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod during emergency debate on nation-wide protests against Coastal GasLinke pipeline, Feb. 18, 2020. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Forcibly end blockades if necessary, but saving face is better
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU today tried to calm the waters in the Coastal GasLink dispute, while Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer tried [Continue]
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