Thousands march to protest Canada pipeline expansion project
March 11, 2018
BURNABY, British Columbia (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday to speak out against a pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada's tar sands to the Pacific Coast.
Indigenous leaders led the march in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after telling the crowd that the day's event was a celebration of unity, but they should be prepared in the future to "cross the line" with potential arrests.
"Our spiritual leaders today are going to claim back Burnaby Mountain," Rueben George, a member of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, said before the crowd marched to...
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