Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says the OPP have arrived in the community and the people blockading an ice road leading to a De Beers diamond mine would likely be served with an injunction ordering them off the site on Saturday evening.
Inside the wood stove-warmed canvas tent beside the barricades on the ice road leading to the diamond mine Rebecca Iahtail says she’s dying from cancer.
De Beers Diamond Company is turning to the courts to help it end the blockade outside of Attawapiskat.
Aboriginal Affairs minister John Duncan tendered his resignation today and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accepted it.
Moments after Steven Thomas, chief financial officer for De Beers, informed a group of blockaders the company would seek an injunction to have police end the ice road blockade, Attawapiskat band councillor Gerry Nakogee grabbed a microphone and accused the diamond mining giant of tricking the community.
Nunavut’s senator is Dennis Patterson.
Last fall the fragile relationship between Thunder Bay police and the city’s Aboriginal peoples shattered.
You can hear drumming.
The situation is continuing to develop in Attawapiskat.
