Elsipogtog anti-fracking protester: no more games
In New Brunswick tensions are rising in an on-going battle against shale gas exploration.
In New Brunswick tensions are rising in an on-going battle against shale gas exploration.
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 man is arrested by the RCMP Friday morning near Elisipogtog First Nation. Photo courtesy…
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.
A prominent Mi’kmaq leader says he would rather resign as head of Nova Scotia’s treaty rights organization than see a young First Nation woman harmed because of her ongoing hunger strike.
Manitoba RCMP investigators are probing the death of a 19-year-old man from Cross Lake who is also the nephew of Elder Raymond Robinson, one of two men who had been fasting alongside Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence in Ottawa.
The holiday season did little to slow the growth of the Idle No More movement in the Maritimes with demonstrations, round dances and group fasts taking place across the region.