B.C. pipeline protests continue to halt Ontario trains for 5th day in a row
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It's probably what will happen except for those stupid enough to assault the cops. There isn't an out for that.
The Viktorya protestors have a shopping list of items needed...
Shortly after 3:30 p.m., the group issued a "call to action" asking supporters to deliver supplies to the legislature, including tents, tarps, headlamps, blankets, fire extinguishers, naloxone kits, water jugs and propane.
Shortly after 3:30 p.m., the group issued a "call to action" asking supporters to deliver supplies to the legislature, including tents, tarps, headlamps, blankets, fire extinguishers, naloxone kits, water jugs and propane.
Well now we know what is in the secret peace pipe. Sorry Tec, I simply could not resist.
20 days and no end in site to the roving illegal blockades popping up in various parts of our nation. Ships are clogging Vancouver's harbor waiting to be unloaded and others are now being turned away. Trucks waiting to be loaded are blocks long. No one seems to know what trains are running or where. Easterners are on the verge of freezing. Farmers can't heat their barns or get feed for their livestock. And very soon communities are going to start running out of food and other necessities if they aren't already in very short supply.
The lawless actions of a very small minority of aboriginals aided and abetted by all number of other protestors with agenda's entirely of their own, and the laissez faire attitude of the minority liberal government is alarming and shameful and with each day the situation intensifies and worsens. All the empty talk of dialogue has not done one single thing to stop the blockades. So screw the dialogue. It's time for action. Our country deserves no less than to the see the rule of law applied across the board. If it takes send in the army then the aboriginals have only themselves to blame. Had they kept their protests peaceful and within the bounds of Canadian law they would not have brought such drastic action upon themselves.
The lawless actions of a very small minority of aboriginals aided and abetted by all number of other protestors with agenda's entirely of their own, and the laissez faire attitude of the minority liberal government is alarming and shameful and with each day the situation intensifies and worsens. All the empty talk of dialogue has not done one single thing to stop the blockades. So screw the dialogue. It's time for action. Our country deserves no less than to the see the rule of law applied across the board. If it takes send in the army then the aboriginals have only themselves to blame. Had they kept their protests peaceful and within the bounds of Canadian law they would not have brought such drastic action upon themselves.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/indigenous-protest-go-trains-1.5474884
"Hamilton police do respect the right of people's freedom of assembly and a peaceful assembly (& Tire Fires on the ties between the rails apparently?). However we have a court injunction that's in place and we're here to enforce that injunction if need…" Stewart said before trailing off. "Hopefully we don't get to that stage, hopefully people will leave the area peacefully."
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/father-de-souza-fires-on-the-tracks-which-the-police-dared-not-put-out
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, ONT. — “Anyone over there want to talk?”
That was the plaintive cry from the north side of the tracks, where the Ontario Provincial Police were standing by, to the south side of the tracks, where some Tyendinaga Mohawks had put a burning tire on the Canadian National Railway tracks.
There was no response at first, as the protesters/blockaders were having what looked like a cigarette break, keeping warm around a fire in an old oil drum. The police officers, keeping a respectful distance from the other side, then retreated into the blackness of the early night. The protesters seemed then to take notice, and threw a half dozen more tires on the tracks.
That would be no; no one wanted to talk. The acrid cloud of burning rubber had a whiff of environmental pollution to it.
Such is what I saw at about 6:45 p.m. on Monday evening from the railway overpass on County Road 49, just south of Highway 401 near Marysville, Ont. I was accompanied on the overpass by a few television cameramen, doing their best to get video in the darkness. And we had three OPP officers with us, armed with smartphones, recording the setting of the track alight. The cameramen appeared more vigorous and engaged than the OPP officers.
So it was that the first train passed the two-week blockade of the nation’s rail network. I was on the road myself, my Via Rail train cancelled, as Via Rail gently put it, “following an advisory from the infrastructure owner that they are unable to support our operations across their network.” Was it an earthquake? A labour dispute? A sudden decision to get out of the infrastructure support business?
Hard to tell what the mysterious cause of the cancellation was, just as so much reporting on the blockades seemed eager to avoid describing just exactly what was going on. So driving back to Kingston from Toronto rather than taking the train, I thought I would stop off and have a look for myself.
On the railway overpass on 49, I arrived in time for the first CN freight train to pass in weeks. It cruised slowly through, locomotive number 2279, offering only a solitary sounding of the horn as it passed the police and protesters by. The police on the north side were standing in place, flashlights at the ready, to see what was going on. On the south side the scene was rather more active, with a few men scurrying about. As the train passed, one man lit a wooden pallet aflame just a few metres from the tracks. I doubt the officers on the other side could see it, but the officers on the overpass certainly got some low quality video of it, having deployed their phones.
After train 2279 went on its way, the Mohawks threw a flaming tire on the tracks itself. That brought about a dozen OPP vehicles streaming onto the site from the north side, and dozens of officers assembled to look earnestly at the fire set upon the tracks. After a few moments of strategizing with the newly arrived reinforcements, a lone officer stepped boldly forward, approaching the flaming southern rails, and took decisive action: “Anyone over there want to talk?”
Another 20 minutes passed without any further police action, as the fire on the tracks grew more intense as more tires were thrown upon it. The black smoke was headed our way, and there being no apparent activity, I headed home.
Obviously, no further train traffic was possible with the burning tires on the tracks, and quite possibly the fire might have damaged the tracks. It appeared as though some railway ties were burning, though it was hard to tell in the darkness.
By the time I was there, the national media had departed. Later Monday night on “CTV National News,” Todd Battis filed a report about the blockades being cleared earlier in the day, concluding that the protesters were still on the scene and so were police, “making sure they stay off the tracks.” As the report was aired the people were off the tracks; the burning tires were on it instead.
As of Tuesday morning, the fires were raising concerns from Ontario Hydro, which has power lines above. And if the black smoke gets too thick, the County Road 49 overpass may have to be closed due to poor visibility.
And so the tracks at Tyendinaga were opened only to be set aflame. Meanwhile, the federal government expressed its interest in continued dialogue, to which the OPP gave voice on site: “Anyone over there want to talk?”
Massed police — even if only for crowd control — can be a fearsome sight. Watching the police watching the incendiary vandalizing of the national railway is fearful in a different way. Fear for the country that seems incapable, metaphorically and now literally, of extinguishing the flames that torch peace, order and good government.
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Sonia Hill, who identifies as Mohawk from Six Nations of Grand River, sang medicine songs Monday night before voluntarily leaving.
The 24-year-old, who is a teaching assistant in sociology at McMaster University, said Six Nations will defend their land indefinitely and she will support them, despite fears of being arrested.
"I'm coming back tomorrow... I'm going to bring my students, make it a part of their credit, their attendance [to] check in with me at the blockade."
(McMaster University said while students and faculty are free to participate in demonstrations, a student's grade can't be conditional on whether they do)
EH!! Fukk the Rails..
Blockade away. There are no blockades in Alberta.
Ontario and Quebec are anti-Alberta, these blockades are hurting them. Higher prices for food, medicine, and so on.
They see Trudeau is doing nothing an unprepared, wet behind the ears sockboy. Next election, might be different.
Trudeau is the Worst Prime Minister in Canadian History.
Blockade away. There are no blockades in Alberta.
Ontario and Quebec are anti-Alberta, these blockades are hurting them. Higher prices for food, medicine, and so on.
They see Trudeau is doing nothing an unprepared, wet behind the ears sockboy. Next election, might be different.
Trudeau is the Worst Prime Minister in Canadian History.
These blockades are hurting Canada as a whole whether or not they are happening in your backyard or 2000 miles to the east of you or thousand miles to the west of you. This nation was built upon the connectivity of our highways and our railways. It was also built upon the rule of law.
Alberta may not be seeing active blockades itself at this point but out here on the prairies we are feeling the squeeze. Grain cars set full. Tanker cars set full. Steel needed for manufacturing of agricultural equipment and so on and so forth is not arriving. Manufactured goods and natural resources that would flow east to west or west to east just arent.
Canadas reputation as a stable nation is swirling any counter clockwise motion down the toilet as investment flees instability and stupidity.
Eh!! Trucking has kicked up. I am just completing a 10 day rounder and will have earned $12,0000 USD
Keep the trains down.. I'm recapping my ass everywhere because there is to much work..
No trains, then they need trucks. The shit will get transported just by a airplane or truck..
This will be the next round of pipeline protest in 2 years
New $4.5B pipeline to carry natural gas from northern Ontario to Quebec
It was mentioned in the Power and politics program that Mowich summarized
New $4.5B pipeline to carry natural gas from northern Ontario to Quebec
It was mentioned in the Power and politics program that Mowich summarized
Canada's reputation is taking a kicking all due to what is perceived as weak leadership by the protest groups. Right now, I think that all Cdns understand that the leadership is not just weak but nonexistent
I'll suggest that the Ontario is taking the full brunt of the impact now with regards to their commuter traffic being cut-off... people will feel it in their wallets and that will definitely have a big impact that the Libs will feel at the ballot box in that province.
It also seems clear that the Mohawks are simply itching for a fight.. they don't give 2 sh*ts about a gas line through BC, but seeing how they came out unscathed in the Oka stand-off, they feel that they are untouchable.
The longer this happens on the Mohawk lands, the more severe the reaction will have to be to level the scales on who has (or should have) the power... I suspect that tater tot will buy them off but this will achieve no more than the Mohawks pulling this stunt every few years when they want some freebies
Rail line cleared, 3 arrests made after protest in Toronto's west end: police
Wet'suwet'en protest: Police make arrests, clear blockade at Port of Vancouver
Another one that Pete called
Wet'suwet'en solidarity protesters take down camp near Saskatoon rail track
Wet'suwet'en protest: Police make arrests, clear blockade at Port of Vancouver
Another one that Pete called
Wet'suwet'en solidarity protesters take down camp near Saskatoon rail track
Well, for those arrested, they'll get 3 hots and a cot.
At least they can continue the good fight in remand
In their war on O&G they completely wiped out any chance for Canadian rare earth elements being developed for the "green energy revolution".
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Well said, although I will suggest that this situation represents a deferral of activity and investment.
Trudeau is the stumbling block and once a competent Fed gvt is in play, in addition to TMX and BC LNG in full swing, I expect that we will see a resurgence in all of the resource sectors