09-01-2019 02:30 via vancouversun.com

Protests follow RCMP arrests at B.C. pipeline blockade

The arrest of 14 people at an Indigenous blockade in a remote area of northern B.C. became a flash point Tuesday that sparked protests across the country.
Protesters stopped traffic in Vancouver and Victoria and prompted a counter protest in front of the headquarters of the company building the pipeline at the centre of the dispute.
RCMP made the arrests Monday at a blockade southwest of Houston, where some members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation had set
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