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• Lack Of Pipeline Consultation Highlights Historical Wrongdoing In B.C. First Nation

  18-06-2018 23:34
  The dirt road leading to High Bar's reserve deep in the Fraser Canyon of B.C. is not for the faint heart. In seven sharp switchbacks, it catapults you from 1,400 metres above sea level down to 400. If your vehicle can handle it, the view down steep cliffs to the Fraser River is as staggering as it is heart-racing.This reserve land was allocated to the community by the federal government in 1881. But in 1924, the government decided that the steep dry cliffs and the lack of access to water meant t
  
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• Trans Mountain Pipeline: Indigenous Protesters In Washington Vow To Stop Expansion

  18-06-2018 22:30
  VANCOUVER — Cedar George-Parker remembers the moment he decided to devote his life to defending Indigenous people and their traditional territories. It was the one-year anniversary of a shooting at his high school that killed four of his classmates in Marysville, Wash."I dropped to my knees and I said, 'I'm going to make a change in the world,'" he recalled.George-Parker is among the Indigenous protesters in Washington state promising to fight the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Activis
  
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