Coastal GasLink

EDITORIAL – We have a right to protest but not a right to break the law

November 23, 2021 // 3 Comments

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

March 18, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

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?

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

February 29, 2020 // 8 Comments

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

February 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

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

February 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

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

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

February 26, 2020 // 3 Comments

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?

February 24, 2020 // 5 Comments

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

February 23, 2020 // 2 Comments

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

February 19, 2020 // 2 Comments

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

February 18, 2020 // 5 Comments

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]

PETERS – This land is their land

February 15, 2020 // 2 Comments

AS I HAVE READ about the dispute over Wet’suwet’en land and the Coastal GasLink pipeline, I have had quite a hard time coming to some conclusions in my own mind. As one [Continue]