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Indigenous rights

Band agreements cannot settle title on unceded Wet’suwet’en land

Coastal GasLink signed agreements with all 20 elected bands on its route, but on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory that does not settle who holds title. Ottawa and Victoria should answer the question the Supreme Court left open in 1997.

Grant · 8 min read

Politics

Timeline: Wet’suwet’en blockades

From the Dec. 31, 2019, injunction to the March 1, 2020, draft arrangement, a dated record of the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests. The court orders were clear long before Ottawa said the barricades must come down.

Grant · 14 min read

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