As tensions continue to escalate at an anti-fracking protest in northern New Brunswick, the chief of a First Nation in the midst of the action is calling on the provincial government to cool things down.
Police swooped in Wednesday morning on a protest outside of Hamilton at an Enbridge pumping terminal.
Unspecified “industrial equipment” was torched early Tuesday morning near the area of an ongoing anti-fracking protest in northern New Brunswick, says the RCMP, as tensions continue to rise in as a result of ongoing police action against demonstrators there.
A group of protestors occupying an Enbridge pipeline pumping station near Hamilton have been served with a court injunction ordering them to leave the site.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper met briefly with Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo on the eve of Aboriginal Day last week.
In New Brunswick dozens of people are gathered around a sacred fire along a rural highway.
It was another day of protest in New Brunswick as Mi’kmaq, Maliseet and their supporters voiced their opposition to shale gas exploration in Kent County.
Leaders from Manitoba took to their motorcycles to travel cross-country to education communities about treaty rights.
The tears of elders drove a group of six Mi’kmaq from Listuguj to walk about 900 kilometres from their community in Quebec to Ottawa.
