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If you’re wondering why over 100 people have been arrested on Vancouver Island in the past week, trees like this are the answer. Activists are trying to protect some of the last ancient forests in North America, as logging companies seek to cut down trees like this.
#FairyCreek
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BREAKING: Coastal GasLink's final report has been rejected by B.C.'s Environmental Assessment Office. Construction in
#Wetsuweten
territory can't proceed without this approval, and stands to be delayed by several months.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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EXCLUSIVE: We identified one of the largest AirBnB ghost hotel networks in Montreal, and spoke to all parties for this exposé.
It’s a case study in a popular new property scam making owners and entrepreneurs rich — and leaving long-term tenants homeless.
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This is Brandi’s job. She’s one of the most decorated field journalists in the country, and this is how the RCMP treat her. Repeatedly threatening her with arrest for asserting rights that the courts have instructed the RCMP to respect. This is not acceptable.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
RCMP created media exclusion zones during their raid and arrests of the Savage Patch camp protecting old growth forest this morn, which they’re not supposed to be doing. Pardon my language during these exchanges. I did inform them of my rights as a journalist when they threatened…
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Our journalists have spotted numerous "thin blue line" patches on the uniforms of the RCMP officers enforcing the injunction at Caycuse and area. But the RCMP has a policy banning the wearing of this symbol. So how come their officers are wearing it? We've asked the force.
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BREAKING:
#FairyCreek
injunction struck down by Justice Thompson of B.C. Supreme Court. The court found criminal law could be used on blockades, and that the RCMP’s method of enforcing the injunction violated civil liberties and press freedom and brought the court into disrepute.
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BREAKING: Rail tracks in Toronto blocked by
#Wetsuweten
solidarity action, near Dufferin & Dupont. We have a reporter on site.
#cdnpoli
#topoli
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NEW REPORT: Canada's top 20 billionaires have increased their fortunes by $37 billion since March. While most Canadians struggled through the pandemic, the rich got much, much richer. Meanwhile, a new poll finds 76% of Canadians want a wealth tax.
#cdnpoli
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JUST IN: Wet’suwet’en House Chiefs launch legal challenge over climate impacts of fossil fuel projects on their territories. They're asking the Federal Court to declare that Canada has a constitutional duty to keep the country’s greenhouse gas emissions under the 2 ̊C limit.
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BREAKING: Justice Thompson of the B.C. Supreme Court has approved a full hearing for those arrested at
#FairyCreek
seeking a stay of all charges due to abuse of process by the RCMP. This means there will be a full hearing to determine whether charges should be stayed.
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Journalist Brandi Morin has been arrested by
@edmontonpolice
while reporting on an encampment raid. She remains in custody charged with obstruction, a criminal offence.
The courts have repeatedly found restricting media access to be unlawful.
#cdnpoli
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Noam Chomsky: Nov 8 might turn out to be one of the most important dates in human history, depending on how we react
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JUST IN: RCMP have reversed course after a huge outcry over press freedom. Will not detain or remove embedded journalists. “For media personnel ahead of the advancing police line, they can continue to observe and report, but without interfering with police enforcement.”
#bcpoli
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“We call on the RCMP to cease harassing journalists and, in consultation with press freedom advocates, to immediately publish a policy that outlines how to protect journalists’ rights while policing demonstrations.”
- Coalition for Women in Journalism.
#Canada
: Police officer grabs & threatens Brandi Morin (
@Songstress28
) with arrest during Fairy Creek raid. RCMP's repeated intimidation of her is unacceptable.
#CFWIJ
demands police cease harassing journalists reporting on protests
Read More:
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We are gravely concerned by the RCMP decision to block journalists from doing their job. Further investigation of the RCMP’s claim that cell and internet service was *coincidentally* cut to the area as their officers arrived is also needed. This is not press freedom.
#cdnpoli
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"You simply can’t arrest your way out of a crisis of this magnitude...More arrests trigger more protests, and the crisis grows. Only listening and acting to address the legitimate grievances of the
#Wetsuweten
will get us out of this crisis."
#Tyendinaga
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“You are not welcome here! This is
#Wetsuweten
territory! We are unarmed. We are peaceful... You! Are invaders!” Eve, holding an Eagle feather, stands off with RCMP tactical units at Gidimt’en checkpoint moments ago. RCMP appear to be moving in.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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The largest investigation of short-term rentals ever in Canada.
A dream team of award-winning investigative journalists from across the country, including Zachary Kamel, Brishti Basu, Anupriya Dasgupta, Sam Harper & Jimmy Thomson.
Help make it happen.
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On Aug. 21, RCMP officers pepper sprayed protesters at
#FairyCreek
.
They said they did so to protect an officer shoved to the ground by a hostile crowd.
A joint investigation by
@CapitalDailyVic
& Ricochet has found that wasn't true.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
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“Close the bridges, close the tracks.
#Wetsuweten
we got your back.”
#DowntownBlockade
leaving Square Victoria in Montreal.
#WetsuwetenStrong
#cdnpoli
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Hundreds of labour activists blocked the entrance to a Toronto weapons facility that supplies arms to Israel.
“We want Canadians to be aware that companies that have bases in Canada are complicit in war crimes halfway around the world.”
#CeasefireNOW
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VIDEO: Marching to prevent ‘another tar sands’ — Doug Ford refuses to meet with Indigenous leaders opposing the so-called Ring of Fire mining development in Northern Ontario.
Full story:
#onpoli
#Indigenous
#landback
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Harrowing video taken yesterday on the Trans-Canada highway in Secwépemc territory near Little Shuswap Lake and the northern arm of Shuswap Lake in B.C.'s southern interior.
#BCWildfires
Situation between Sorrento and Chase, where there’s a number of smaller communities north and west of Shuswap Lake, looks quite bad
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There are literally too many of these happening for us to keep track. One after another, all across Canada, in francophone Quebec, in Europe, etc.
Breaking: building lobby where Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is due to visit in Halifax is occupied in solidarity with
#Wetsuweten
struggle
#WetsuwetenStrong
#hfxpoli
#ShutDownCanada
#ShutCanadaDown
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NEWS: A major RCMP raid is underway, targeting the HQ camp for blockaders who have been trying to stop old-growth logging in the
#FairyCreek
area. 11 arrests so far. Ricochet has a team on the ground at HQ, follow this thread for updates.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
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NOW: Indigenous youth blocking an entrance to the Port of Vancouver to protest 90-day jail sentence handed down to Indigenous land defender and
#TMX
pipeline opponent Stacy Gallagher today.
#vanpoli
#cdnpoli
7:14 -
#VancouverBC
- Protest remains in the intersection of Hastings St. & Clark Dr. 🛑All directions are blocked.
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We’re getting reports of an RCMP exclusion zone being set up at one of the blockade camps opposing old growth logging on the west coast of Vancouver Island, despite a judge having previously found such zones illegal. Jerome Turner is en route now. Follow for updates.
#cdnpoli
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Homelessness in Canada has reached a humanitarian crisis level, experts warn — ‘Many Canadians, especially renters, are closer to homelessness than they might imagine’.
#HousingFirst
#HousingCrisis
#cdnpoli
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BREAKING: Green Party reinstates leadership candidate Meryam Haddad. Background:
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#Wetsuweten
land defenders at Gidimt’en checkpoint sing as they wait for the RCMP. Police are in the bushes on snowshoes, a raid by tactical units is imminent. Journalist
@GitxsanJt
reporting from behind police lines. Follow us for live updates.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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BREAKING: We're joining a number of media outlets taking the RCMP to court to stop them restricting media access.
“Every day is a new day with new excuses from the RCMP about why access is limited. Enough is enough" - Brent Jolly, president of
@CAJ
.
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Tzeporah Berman being arrested at Waterfall blockade today. Berman was a central figure in the 1993 protests at Clayoquot Sound. Yesterday, she returned to the blockade for the first time in 27 years, calling for civil disobedience against old-growth logging. Photo: Kyle Darling
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“We’ve taken back Waterfall!”
Jerome Turner reports over 1,000 people marched on a gate blocking access to Waterfall camp earlier today. The protesters broke through RCMP and private security roadblocks and reoccupied the contested blockade site.
#FairyCreek
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
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NOW: Protest happening on the lawn of the B.C. legislature in Victoria calling for an end to old-growth logging.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#FairyCreek
Right now in Lekwungen territory at the Victoria legislature. A youth-organized solitary event for the
#FairyCreek
blockades.
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Montreal police are wearing patches that proclaim their opposition to
#BlackLivesMatter
and support for officers accused of misconduct. These slogans have been banned by police forces across the country, but Montreal police won’t respond to our questions.
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Our first raw video from today's raid and arrests at Gidimt’en checkpoint - captured by Jerome Turner. This was one of the scenes many didn't want you to see.
Stay tuned Saturday for more videos, photos, and updates on the siege in
#Wetsuweten
territory.
#cdnpoli
#PressFreedom
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“This may be my last report for a while..” Jerome Turner, reporting from inside the Gidimt’en checkpoint. He can hear heavy machinery and the sky is full of helicopters. A raid by RCMP tactical units appears imminent.
#WetsuwetenStrong
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
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BREAKING: The BC RCMP have launched a raid on an Indigenous-led blockade seeking to protect Old Growth in the
#FairyCreek
watershed.
Award-winning journalists
@Songstress28
&
@photobracken
are behind police lines to report from inside the raid. Updates TK.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
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“No. Police. On stolen Native land.”
#DowntownBlockade
passing Central Station in Montreal.
#Wetsuweten
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“We want! Your children! To see this forest too!”
Protesters near Waterfall camp chant at police clearing a roadblock. There were several arrests today, amid slow moving efforts by the RCMP to reach Waterfall. 🎥: Yassie Pirani
#FairyCreek
#bcpoli
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Just in: Chile has voted overwhelmingly to get rid of its Pinochet-era Constitution. This victory comes one year after a massive protest movement kicked off in Chile.
#Aprueba
🔴AHORA |
#Plebiscito2020
Masiva celebración en Plaza Italia mientras el Apruebo lidera los cómputos
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After not responding to calls and emails all day, just got this from RCMP informing us that they plan to arrest Ricochet journalist
@GitxsanJt
for doing his job and reporting on police activity in the injunction zone. Does the
@jjhorgan
government respect press freedom?
#bcpoli
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EXCLUSIVE - Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, the first First Nation woman MLA in
#Alberta
, is running for NDP leadership.
And she has a message for the current premier, UCP leader Danielle Smith:
“Start packing your bags.”
#Ableg
#Indigenousleaders
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PRESS RELEASE: Journalist Jerome Turner's detention by the RCMP yesterday is a serious infringement of press freedom, and we hope it will be covered widely to prevent future such abuses. Particularly in the case of two journalists still at
#Unistoten
.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#Wetsuweten
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“I'm so mad and sad, I don't know what to think.” A Mi’kmaq man named Rodney Levi was shot and killed by RCMP officers near Mirimachi, New Brunswick tonight. It is the second police killing of an Indigenous person in the province in the past eight days.
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Things are heating up at
#Wetsuweten
, with reports of RCMP being flown in and hotel rooms booked. Another raid may be imminent.
Journalist Brandi Morin is en route, but we need your help to keep her there. This story must be covered.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
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WATCH: The Horgan govt promised to save what few old-growth trees remain in B.C. Instead, they're letting logging companies raze ancient forests. Over 50 activists have been arrested as they make a last stand for the trees. Our team is on the ground and made this report.
#bcpoli
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In past weeks RCMP tactics at Wet’suwet’en have changed. They’re not just patrolling the roads, but sending teams to people’s houses and camps multiple times a day. In this clip Sleydo (Molly Wickham), Gidimt’en clan spokesperson, explains the impact of that harassment.
#bcpoli
Sleydo, Gidimt’en Clan on RCMP harassment here in her Wet’suewet’en territories. She says the Wet’suewet’en will never leave no matter what the RCMP does
@ricochet_en
@CSORG
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The Justin Brake case established a legal precedent that journalists cannot be arrested or charged for being in injunction zones to report. At
#Wetsuweten
, and at
#1492LandBackLane
, police are defying the rule of law. We stand in solidarity with our colleague from
@OneDishOneMic
.
In a news release, CANADALAND contributor
@KarlDockstader
says he was "arrested and charged yesterday for reporting during a land action at
#1492LandBackLane
" (
@1492LBL
):
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BREAKING: The offices of Liberal MPs Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna, Bill Morneau, Julie Dzerowicz, Stephen Fuhr and Jonathan Wilkinson are all currently occupied by postal workers and allies calling for the government to respect the collective bargaining process.
#cdnpoli
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A new poll shows a huge majority of Canadians want governments to spend whatever it takes to provide for people during
#coronavirus
recovery, and pay for it by taxing the rich. So why is this majority position never reflected in mainstream media?
#cdnpoli
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BREAKING: Under tremendous public pressure, the RCMP have backed down. Reversing course on a threat to arrest any journalists covering their raids on
#Wetsuweten
territory. It's a major victory for press freedom. Details:
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Hereditary chief Smogelgem announces that the
#Wetsuweten
feast has reaffirmed their position. CGL and RCMP must leave their lands.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
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In Canada, calls are growing to boycott Loblaws for the month of May, but how do you boycott an oligopoly?
Still, boycott or not, Canadians are paying for Galen Weston’s castle.
NEW from
@LukewSavage
:
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The courts have been clear, repeatedly, that these type of injunctions cannot be applied to journalists covering the activities of others. So the court is forcing her to stay away from the area of her work, on the basis of an injunction that doesn't apply to her.
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The rail line on the Highway of Tears in New Hazelton has been blocked by the Gitxsan Nation at this hour in solidarity with
#Wetsuweten
. Gitxsan chiefs in contact with RCMP, and trains have been stopped. First photo: Jesse Webb and baby Sprite.
#bcpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
#cdnpoli
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We should also note that Brandi was threatened with arrest, and the RCMP again tried to enforce a media exclusion zone that the courts have found to be unlawful.
During today’s raid at
#FairyCreek
Mounties once again tried to enforce a media exclusion zone, and threatened
@Songstress28
with arrest, before an an Indigenous DLT officer stepped in.
RCMP have no policy on media access, yet continue to disregard the courts & oversight advice.
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This is raw footage of Jerome Turner’s interaction with RCMP tactical officers, before most of the other journalists were allowed into the area. Five members of the Rainforest Flying Squad were arrested today. A documentary filmmaker was also arrested. More to come.
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NEW: Wet'suwet'en bahlat, otherwise known as a feast or potlatch, reaffirms Coastal GasLink and RCMP must go. “The resolve of our people is unwavering,” - hereditary chief Smogelgem.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#Wetsuweten
#WetsuwetenStrong
#ShutDownCanada
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Statement from Elder Bill.
“The forest is my cathedral..Government and industry cannot come to my lands and destroy my cathedral and expect us to do nothing.
It is laughable to charge us with offences and call us conspirators when we are at the end times of our great forests.”
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SCOOP: Ricochet has identified the man operating illegal short term rentals in the old port building that burned down last week. His name is Tariq Hasan.
Former tenants say landlord Emile-Haim Benamor was converting the building into a pseudo-hotel.
#mtl
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BREAKING: RCMP are at the barricade on the bridge. Voice from the
#Wetsuweten
side: “Tell me how this is different than 150 years ago, when you first came here? This is no different!”
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Solidarity to our friends at Canadaland and a half dozen other outlets currently being sued by The Rebel for reporting accurately on their appalling actions. SLAPP suits won’t stop good journalism.
#cdnpoli
1. Well, we're getting sued.
But not by who you think.
The person suing us for defamation is this guy – Keean Bexte.
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Support the Wet’suwet’en Nation and the pipeline protests happening now in Canada!
#WetsuwenStrong
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This is the Gitxsan Chief who was just arrested a minute ago by the RCMP. The blockade he was leading at New Hazelton had one demand: that the governments sit down and negotiate with the
#Wetsuweten
.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Brandi Morin reports from
#Wetsuweten
, where today she and Amber Bracken got access to the CGL drill pad site.
Brandi and Amber are working on a feature on the pristine river at the heart of this pipeline dispute.
Help fund their reporting:
#bcpoli
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Breaking now! The Seattle train tracks have been blockaded in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The resistance is spreading across the boarder!
#AllEyesOnWetsuweten
#WetsuwenStrong
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Last week in Ottawa, Canadian Conservatives met with a far-right Israeli property developer who has advocated violence against Palestinians.
#cdnpoli
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Brandi Morin, reporting from
#Wetsuweten
this hour.
CGL security are blocking the road leading to a drill pad site where the Coyote resistance camp was located. CGL is preparing to drill under the Wedzin Kwa river, a sacred water system to the Wet’suwet’en.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
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An RCMP convoy. An ambulance. Helicopters. Tactical officers. Rifles. The messages were coming in fast and furious — and then all communication ceased. Here’s what happened at Gidimt’en after journalist Jerome Turner went dark, in his own words.
#bcpoli
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"Something's shifted ... I've seen it in Idle No More and I'm seeing it now." - Rueben George of Tsleil Waututh Nation spoke to hundreds of opponents of old-growth logging today at River HQ near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli
#FairyCreek
#cdnpoli
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Harassment, threats of rape, and intimidation. Wet'suwet'en people say RCMP and pipeline security are a near-constant presence in their community as the company prepares to start drilling under the sacred river. Reporting by
@Songstress28
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BREAKING: Public safety minister says RCMP to move off Wet'suwet'en territory. RCMP will withdraw to nearby town of Houston. Unclear if they’ll continue to patrol, escort CGL workers.
#Wetsuweten
#WetsuwetenStrong
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
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BREAKING: In a victory for freedom of the press, Richard Martineau has ended his $350,000 lawsuit against Ricochet Media. The controversial columnist and self-described free speech advocate sued over a satirical critique in 2016. Our editorial:
#cdnpoli
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Today, Jerome Turner and two other Ricochet journalists covered an RCMP raid on an protest camp opposing old-growth logging. Seven people were arrested.
Deep in the woods, Turner couldn’t get videos out until now. Follow this 🧵 to see some of his footage from inside the raid.
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We’ve lost contact with journalist Jerome Turner on the ground at the Gidimt’en siege. We have heard reports of arrests, and that Jerome has been kept 60 feet back. That’s a violation of the RCMP’s agreement with us, which makes it very difficult for him to report. More soon.
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At Sunday's protest a group of journalists had to plead while on their knees to keep riot police from shooting them with projectiles. Sadly, that's nothing new. Our investigation shows Montreal police have a long track record of abusing journalists.
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Brandi Morin is in
#Wetsuweten
territory reporting on ongoing RCMP raids. Her presence is even more crucial with several journalists being arrested and held in jail over the weekend. Follow her (
@Songstress28
) and
@amandajfollett
with
@TheTyee
who is also in the area for updates.
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About that 'reporter' whose questions Jagmeet Singh refused to answer
#debatdeschefs2019
#cdnpoli
#elxn43
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Health care in Canada is collapsing. “We’re beyond the worst-case scenario.” Now, provincial governments are pushing privatization as the solution. Can collective action save the public system?
#cdnpoli
#healthcare
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Photojournalist takes on RCMP in court fight for press freedom.
Read Brandi Morin (
@Songstress28
)’s profile of World Press Photo-winning photojournalist Amber Bracken (
@photobracken
) as she and
@thenarwhalca
take RCMP to trial over her wrongful arrest.
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‘A community that won’t back down’: The battle at Land Back Lane.
Journalist Christopher Curtis travelled to Six Nations and spent weeks writing this feature report on
#1492LandBackLane
. It's a comprehensive look at the conflict, and its roots.
#cdnpoli
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Brandi Morin reports from Eden Grove. Near a new barricade led by Indigenous youth that is defying loggers and the RCMP.
This essential reporting is only possible thanks to your support. If you can, please donate to help cover Brandi & Amber’s expenses.
These are some of the last of old growth that exists anywhere. It's quiet. It's peaceful. We took a crazy road to even access this. This is what the elders and the land Defenders are fighting to preserve for future generations. War of the Woods II
#fairycreek
@ricochet_en
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As drilling for the pipeline starts under the river, the
#Wetsuweten
people remain defiant. “We, as the chiefs, have never, ever allowed this.”
Here's the latest from
@Songstress28
:
#WaterIsLife
#cdnpoli
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Large protest today in Halifax in solidarity with Mi’kmaq fishers.
#cdnpoli
@ndngrandmother
There are several hundred people here in solidarity with Mi’kmaq fishers & treaty rights
#1752Treaty
#TreatyRights
#Halifax
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"Minister Conroy and premier Horgan, are either completely incompetent or they're lying."
Tzeporah Berman returned to the blockade for the first time since Clayoquot Sound, and was arrested alongside over 30 other people at two sites on Saturday.
Watch our video report.
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