Support from Idle No More in Elsipogtog
Shale gas protestors in New Brunswick received support from Idle No More Tuesday.
Spirits were high along Hwy. 11 despite the events of Monday when seven people were arrested.
Shale gas protestors in New Brunswick received support from Idle No More Tuesday.
Spirits were high along Hwy. 11 despite the events of Monday when seven people were arrested.
Elsipogtog First Nation Chief Aaron Sock said his community would not be backing down from its battle with a Houston-based energy firm exploring for shale gas in the region.
Suspended Senator Patrick Brazeau says he was appointed to the Red Chamber to support Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “Aboriginal agenda.”
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News It sat on a desk in a CN Rail…
Moments after the Senate voted to suspend him, trailed by a mob of television cameras, photographers Sen. Patrick Brazeau strode swiftly from the Red Chamber, out of Centre Block on Parliament Hill and into the passenger’s seat of a waiting white car, his new girlfriend in tow, jumping into the back.
During an emotional speech that could be his last in the Red Chamber, embattled Sen. Patrick Brazeau said he was “not a thief, a scammer, a drunken Indian, a drug addict, a failed experiment or a human tragedy.”
From British Columbia to the east coast hundreds of Aboriginal and non – Aboriginal activists have been hitting the pavement to show they’re in solidarity with the Mi’kmaq people.
It’s a growing grassroots response similar to that of the IdleNoMore movement. Groups across the country are mobilizing Thursday after violence broke out on the anti-fracking protest line in rural New Brunswick.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper continued his efforts to refashion the Canadian mythology by describing a country founded by “pioneers” in a Throne Speech delivered Wednesday that treated pressing First Nation issues as an afterthought.