A new agreement with B.C. and Ottawa is shifting focus from the gas pipeline to how the First Nation should be governed in the future
If approved, a draft memorandum of understanding would pave the way, but there’s a catch—it would do nothing to stop the contentious pipeline construction already happening
Image of the Week: A nighttime blaze on the railway tracks became an apt symbol of protests across the country
Paul Wells: Exactly what happened between Tuesday’s call for calm and Friday’s ‘the barricades must come down’?
Andrew MacDougall: If there is an off ramp in this crisis, it’s for the PM to stop delaying and start drawing some lines
At an overnight street demonstration in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, Rachel Jansen finds the ‘ignorance’ knock doesn’t stand up to fact
‘Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences?…Where politicians are ordering police to arrest people. A country where people think they can tamper with rail lines and endanger lives. This is simply unacceptable.’
Amber Bracken: The difference between Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and elected chiefs is rooted in Aboriginal title, an issue that the Government of Canada continues to leave unresolved
Image of the Week: Supporters of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs fighting Coastal GasLink are hitting the streets of their own communities