Funny but not funny…, a speech Trudeau gave a year ago was all about the atrocities committed in Canada against indigenous people,and how he vowed he would do better.
This year, they’re target practice….
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Wet’suwe’ten protester in RCMP gunsight pleads in video for police to put down their arms | CBC News
The camera pans to show a member of the RCMP tactical team
setting up in a position behind a flipped vehicle, steadying his scoped
rifle, and fixing it in Sutherland-Wilson’s direction.
setting up in a position behind a flipped vehicle, steadying his scoped
rifle, and fixing it in Sutherland-Wilson’s direction.
That’s when Sutherland-Wilson can be heard pleading to police: “There’s no need to point guns at us; there is no need.”
“Don’t point your gun at me.”
Trains vs. pipelines: 2 Sask. crashes respark debate over risks of moving oil | CBC News
The pipeline pitches came almost instantly last week. So did the conspiracy theories.
A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailment near Guernsey, Sask. — the second to happen in two months near the small hamlet — leaked an estimated 1.2 million litres of oil.
The fiery incident immediately sparked heated debate on social media about the safest way to carry oil over Canadian soil.
The march to reconciliation trips over a pipeline | CBC News
The dispute over the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline in the B.C. interior is fuelling protests right across the country now — protests that governments seem reluctant to confront even as they spread.
What happens next with CoastalLink and the Wet’suwet’en will have ripple effects right across the country. More projects will come up for approval soon — starting with the giant Teck Frontier mine in Alberta, which now awaits a final decision from the federal cabinet at the end of the month.
So this is a test case. Underlying it all are two fairly basic questions. Why is this happening? And what’s the right response?
The answer to the first question is less obvious than it seems.
Government tells UN it’s on track to meet climate goals for power generation
The assessment is based on policies already in place and at least partly implemented.