Dozens of people supporting Indigenous hereditary leaders in their fight against a natural gas pipeline blocked all entrances and exits to the B.C. Parliament Buildings in Victoria on Tuesday, disrupting the kickoff of the legislature’s spring session hours before it even began. Demonstrators stopped arriving MLAs, staffers and reporters at every ground-level entrance and exit to…

Via Rail has cancelled another 33 train trips departing Toronto for points east Tuesday due to an ongoing demonstration in support of Wet’suwet’en pipeline opponents. Tyendinaga Mohawk members say they won’t end their demonstration near Belleville, Ont., until the RCMP leaves the territory of the Wet’suwet’en in northwestern B.C., where there have been numerous arrests of protesters who have been…

A northern Saskatchewan man has questions after his trapper’s cabin was removed by the provincial government last week. Up until last Tuesday, Richard Durocher’s cabin was situated along Highway 914, about 40 kilometres north of Pinehouse and approximately 400 kilometres north of Saskatoon. Durocher said he learned what was happening when he started getting calls…

The people staging a demonstration in support of Wet’suwet’en pipeline opponents that has led to a five-day shutdown of passenger and freight rail traffic through eastern Ontario say they won’t back down in the face of possible police action. Tyendinaga Mohawk members say they won’t end their demonstration until the RCMP leaves the territory of the Wet’suwet’en.  RCMP began enforcing an court…

RCMP have begun enforcing of a B.C. Supreme Court order in the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation at the fourth site along a forest service road that Coastal GasLink and its contractors have been prevented from accessing for weeks.  The site police are moving into is Unist’ot’en, where the Wet’suwet’en have been re-establishing a permanent presence for more than a…

Arrests by the RCMP in Wet’suwet’en territory in northern B.C., have triggered railway blockades and other protests across the country in support of the First Nation’s fight against a natural gas pipeline.  RCMP began enforcing an court order against those blocking construction on the Coastal GasLink pipeline last Thursday. The Wet’suwet’en have established camps along the road, including the…