Showing posts with label Wet’suwet’en Nation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wet’suwet’en Nation. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Ugly Cons and the Shadow of the Vigilante



The barricades are still up, the ugly Cons are still howling for native blood.

And a lot of people all over the country are impatient and angry.

But Justin Trudeau's decision to rely on the Canadian values of negotiation and compromise seems to be working. 

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he's hoping the RCMP's offer to leave their outpost on Wet'suwet'en territory in northern B.C. will lead to the barricades coming down, as talks aimed at ending the rail blockades crippling the country's rail network continue.

And just in the nick of time, for some angry white Cons are trying to take the law into their own hands.

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Will The Native Protests Kill The Reconciliation Process?



As I'm sure you know, there have been protests all over the country, in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northern B.C.

And while most of the protests have been noisy but peaceful.

Some have been ugly with people denied entrance to the places where they work.