New Republic

The Pipeline Crisis Was Centuries in the Making

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the anti-pipeline protests that have largely shut down rail travel across Canada. The blockades, which have also temporarily closed off certain ...
The Hill

The Guardian: Canadian police were prepared to shoot indigenous protesters protecting land from pipeline

Documents reveal that Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were prepared to use lethal force against indigenous protestors that blocked construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British ...
Grist

Land defenders appear in court after police raids in Wet’suwet’en territory

Indigenous land defenders were in a British Columbia court Monday after they were arrested during police raids that took place on Wet’suwet’en territory Friday. During the raids, Royal Canadian ...
JD Supra

Court Finds Indigenous Law Not a Defence to an Injunction to Restrain Protests

On December 31, 2019, the British Columbia Supreme Court confirmed that interlocutory injunctions, which can include police enforcement clauses, are an available remedy to restrain protesters from ...
Grist

Canada sides with a pipeline, violating Wet’suwet’en laws — and its own

When Chief Dsta’hyl arrived on a Saturday morning in October, the big construction vehicles rumbled back and forth over the cold mud. He watched an excavator dig into the soil, its yellow, hydraulic ...