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‘This is Not Okay’: Protests Across Canada Stand Up for Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders – The Energy Mix
“I think people are starting to wake
up to the fact that we have the right to our territory,” said Jen
Wickham, spokesperson for one of the five clans of the Wet’suwet’en
Nation, in a Canadian Press story picked up by both the Toronto Star and the fossil industry daily JWN Energy.
“They’re upset and they’re taking to the streets. They’re occupying
offices, they’re stopping traffic, and they’re stopping trains. They’re
saying, loud and clear, ‘This is not OK.’”
In January, as the Globe and Mail put it in a colourful old-timey headline last week, Canada’s job market blew past the forecasts for the month. Unemployment also fell.
In Alberta, not so much.
In letter to Trudeau, Kenney warns of ‘devastating impacts’ if Ottawa rejects Teck mine | CBC News
Hope he takes some of his buddies with him…
“Here in Alberta,” Kenney wrote, a cabinet rejection “of our
most important industry and could raise roiling Western alienation to a
boiling point — something I know your government has been attentive to
since the election.”
The premier said he’s frustrated by the
fact that some Liberal MPs have suggested the provincial cap isn’t the
benchmark for approving natural resources projects any longer — that the
federal government must decide instead whether the project is
compatible with the government’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions by
2050.
Dozens Arrested in Vancouver as RCMP Raid on Wet’suwet’en Drags On
As an RCMP raid on Indigenous sites in northern British Columbia drags into a fifth day of arrests, another 43 people have been arrested in Vancouver for blocking port traffic in solidarity.
The Wet’suwet’en Nation has faced increasing police presence on their territory since early January, when hereditary chiefs evicted pipeline workers and police from their land. On Thursday, RCMP began removing Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters from camps along a snow-covered logging road to make way for the $6.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline