Emma McIntosh Autumn Walkem, Nlaka’pamux, a supporter of the Wet’suwet’en puts up a sign to greet police at Unist’ot’en Camp in February 2020. Photo by Michael Toledano The company behind the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline has violated conditions set by the British Columbia government more than 50 times, the province’s records show. Some rules were…
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Mohawk Activist: Reconciliation Isn’t Dead. It Was Never Alive.
Alan S. Hale Indigenous activist, human rights advocate and person of the longhouse, Ellen Gabriel, gave an impassioned lecture at Queen’s University on Wednesday about the state of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples. (Alan S. Hale/The Whig-Standard)Alan S. Hale / Alan S. Hale/The Whig-Standard One of the most consequential aspects of the conflict…
Canada: Tentative Agreement with Wet’suwet’en Nation May Be a Milestone, but it Doesn’t Resolve Pipeline Fight
Ethan Cox, Erin Seatter The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and the B.C. and Canadian governments have come to a tentative agreement about rights and title, but none of the parties have changed their position on the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline. Chief Woos, who represents the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en, said the past three days of…
What is Happening in Wet’suwet’en?
Fire This Time! An RCMP officer stands near the Morice River bridge, the only entrance point to the Unist’ot’en healing centre and sole access road to Coastal GasLink work sites. A barrier built across the bridge bears a sign saying “Reconciliation,” which was disassembled by workers in yellow vests. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal…
Canada: Three Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs Arrested as Solidarity Actions Flare Across the Country
Brett Forester and Lee Wilson (The train track blockade near New Hazelton, B.C. prior to being dismantled for the first time. Photo: Lee Wilson/APTN) Gitxsan Chief Spookwx put on his hereditary chief’s regalia as he prepared to be arrested on Monday night. Around the campfire that burned on CN Rail tracks, he told those present…
RCMP Raids Wet’suwet’en Camps in British Columbia: “Reconciliation is Dead”
M. Tiahui Indigenous people and allies who support Indigenous sovereignty have taken to the streets throughout Canada in response to multiple raids on peaceful encampments in Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with guns, dogs and helicopters have conducted raids against Wet’suwet’en clan camps. The camps, located along a road in…
Canada Raids Indigenous Lands for Construction of Pipeline, Violates International Law
Surangya Police arresting an indigenous land defender from Wet’suwet’en territories on February 6. (Photo: Jesse Winter) Militarized police, armed with assault rifles and dogs, have been invading Indigenous lands in the Canadian district of British Columbia since February 6, and have arrested several unarmed land defenders. A total of 21 arrests were made by the…
Stephen Lewis: The NDP’s Liberal Imperialist
Yves Engler If the New Democratic Party wants to be part of the solution and not a barrier to creating a better foreign policy it needs to start telling the truth. Stephen Lewis is a liberal imperialist who largely ignores Canada’s contribution to African subjugation. Just before the election Svend Robinson for Burnaby North-Seymour published…
Canada No Safe Haven for Blacks
More than half of Canada’s Black population was born elsewhere, but disproportionate stops by police “can not only end in jail, but deportation and removal,” said Robyn Maynard, a Montreal-based writer and activist and author of “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.” Canada has been especially harsh in its…
Haiti: The International Front Positions Itself
Lautaro Rivara, Sociologist and member of the Dessalines Brigade of Solidarity with Haiti The so-called “international community”, so far silent on the serious Haitian crisis, has just made its move. On September 30, a meeting took place between allies of the ruling party, sectors of the political opposition specifically called for their extreme moderation (if…
The Seven Decisions Taken by TIAR Against Venezuela
The foreign ministers of the member countries of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Tiar) agreed on Monday to impose a series of sanctioning measures against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a Consultation meeting in New York, United States. The meeting of the Consultative Body of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the…
Is Canada’s Government a Partner in America’s Crimes?
Margaret Kimberly of Black Agenda Report says Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal is far from the worst of his offenses.
