Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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The sight of two mice scurrying across a London Underground platform in the evening is, to many, an unwelcome feature of life in the city.

But a young photographer is hoping his award-winning shot changes that perception.

Sam Rowley's "Station Squabble" has been picked from more than 48,000 images to claim a wildlife photography award from London's Natural History Museum, voted for by the public.

The image features two mice fighting over a few leftover crumbs in a subway station.

"Everybody knows about the mice on the Underground but I don't think anyone's seen them in that light before," Rowley, a 25-year-old researcher at the BBC, told CNN.

He admitted that he got a handful of "strange looks" from commuters while laying on the floor of various central London stations, but added: "People were quite curious -- they were quite chatty and nice about the whole thing."

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BUSHMEAT AND ZOONOSIS
Bats for sale at Indonesia's wildlife market despite virus warning

AFP Wednesday, February 12, 2020

TOMOHON, INDONESIA -- Bats, rats and snakes are still being sold at an Indonesian market known for its wildlife offerings, despite a government request to take them off the menu over fears of a link to the deadly coronavirus.

Vendors at the Tomohon Extreme Meat market on Sulawesi island say business is booming and curious tourists keep arriving to check out exotic fare that enrages animal rights activists.

But scientists are debating how the new virus, which has killed more than 1,100 people in China and spread to dozens of countries around the world, was transmitted to humans.

A wildlife market in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, is thought to be ground zero and there is suspicion it could have originated in bats.

The possible link wasn't on many radar screens at the Indonesian market, however.

Its grubby stalls feature a dizzying array of animals including giant snakes, rats impaled on sticks and charred dogs with their hair seared off by blowtorches -- a gory scene described by some critics as "like walking through hell".

Bat seller Stenly Timbuleng says he's still moving his fare for as much as 60,000 rupiah ($4.40) a kilogram to buyers in the area, where bats are a specialty in local cuisine.

"I'm selling between 40 and 60 kilograms every day," the 45-year-old told AFP.

"The virus hasn't affected sales. My customers still keep coming."

Restaurateur Lince Rengkuan -- who serves bats including their heads and wings stewed in coconut milk and spices -- says the secret is preparation.

"If you don't cook the bat well then of course it can be dangerous," she said.

"We cook it thoroughly and so far the number of customers hasn't gone down at all."

This despite a request from the local government and the health agency to take bats and other wildlife out of circulation -- a call that has been all but ignored.

"We're also urging people not to consume meat from animals suspected to be carriers of a fatal disease," said Ruddy Lengkong, head of the area's government trade and industry agency.

Indonesia has not yet reported a confirmed case of the virus.

In the capital Jakarta, vendors selling skinned snakes and cobra blood on a recent Saturday night didn't have any trouble finding takers.

"It's good for you, sir," said one vendor of his slithering fare.

"Cures and prevents all diseases."
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Assembly of First Nations launches class action lawsuit against federal government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry
 Bellegarde participates in the signing of the Assembly of First Nations
-Canada Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Priorities on
 Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 12, 2017. 
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Rachel GilmoreCTVNews.ca Writer
Published Wednesday, February 12, 2020 

OTTAWA -- The Assembly of First Nations has filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government, seeking damages for First Nations children who it says have been discriminated against by the government's child welfare system.

The lawsuit was first reported by APTN's Brett Forester on Friday, and was confirmed in a release from the AFN on Wednesday.

It alleges that Canada, through "discriminatory" funding, created an incentive to remove First Nations children from their families and failed to account for different needs among First Nations communities across the country. It also claims the funding for First Nations children on-reserve fell far short of what was allotted to children off-reserve.

“Year after year, generation after generation, Canada systemically discriminated against First Nations children and families simply because they were First Nations,” said AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde in a press release.

“It did so by underfunding preventive care, perpetuating the historical disadvantage resulting from the residential schools. Canada breached its responsibility to our children and families, infringed on their Charter rights, and caused them real harm and suffering. We will always stand up for our children.”

The suit goes beyond the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling in January 2016, which found the government was systemically discriminating against First Nations children on-reserve and in the Yukon through its provision of services.

Canada was ordered to pay $40,000 to First Nations children and their families who were denied services or wrongly apprehended.

The AFN's lawsuit is seeking compensation for an even larger group, broadening it to all those harmed by the system, including those not covered in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s decision. Speaking to host Evan Solomon during an episode of CTV’s Power Play on Wednesday, Bellegarde explained that this was the main purpose of the new lawsuit.

"From 1991 until 2005, the CHRT's decision didn't deal with [that] group of individuals and children that went through the system. So our class action suit was comprehensive to deal with that group of people," Bellegarde said.

The government has already spent upwards of $8 million in legal fees in its efforts to fight the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling, according to the Canadian Press.

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society's Cindy Blackstock, who originally filed the human rights complaint, obtained the documents through the Access to Information Act.

Vanessa Adams, a spokesperson for Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, told CTVNews.ca in an emailed statement that the government "fully” agrees that First Nations children who were harmed by government Child and Family Service policies must be compensated.

"We maintain focused on delivering fair and equitable compensation and hope the parties can work together so that we can continue advancing towards our shared goal of compensating children negatively affected by government policies," Adams said.

"We made a commitment and nothing about our commitment changes. We will continue to work with all relevant parties to ensure we make this right."


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Two Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs head to court over pipeline


Michelle McQuiggeThe Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Two hereditary chiefs from a British Columbia First Nation at the heart of a wave of national protests launched a constitutional challenge of fossil fuel projects on Wednesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for demonstrators to observe the rule of law.

The challenge calls on the Federal Court to declare that Canada is constitutionally obliged to meet international climate change targets, which the chiefs contend would cancel approvals for a natural gas pipeline that runs through traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northern B.C.

"If Canada is allowed to continue approving infrastructure for fracked gas projects on a 40-year timeline, our territories will become a wasteland before the project licenses expire," Chief Lho'imggin, who also goes by Alphonse Gagnon, said in a statement.

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"As house chief it is my responsibility to protect our house territory. We're asking the court to get Canada to act before it is too late."

The challenge came as protesters continued to blockade major ports and rail lines in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, scuttling freight and passenger service and prompting growing calls for federal government intervention.

Speaking in Senegal on Wednesday, Trudeau called on all sides to resolve their differences but insisted that protesters must honour Canadian law.

"We recognize the important democratic right -- and will always defend it -- of peaceful protest," Trudeau said during a news conference with Senegal President Macky Sall. "But we are also a country of the rule of law, and we need to make sure those laws are respected."

Trudeau's remarks, echoed by Canada's transportation and finance ministers throughout the day, drew scorn from Indigenous protesters backing the Wet'suet'en hereditary chiefs.

Herb Varley, who helped organize a blockade at the Port of Vancouver, accused Trudeau of "mindlessly parroting" the term rule of law, which he said is empty rhetoric.

If his elders had followed the rule of law, he said their language would have died out.

"If my Nisga'a grandmothers, grandfathers, aunties and uncles had followed the rule of law, we wouldn't know we were Nisga'a," he said outside the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, where he and other protesters announced they were challenging an injunction served against them over the weekend.

Blockade organizers across Canada have said they're acting in solidarity with those opposed to the Coastal GasLink pipeline project that crosses the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation near Houston, B.C.

The blockades were erected after the RCMP enforced a court injunction last week against Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and their supporters, who had been blocking construction of the pipeline, a key part of a $40-billion LNG Canada liquefied natural gas export project.

Another group of supporters took to the streets in Ottawa on Wednesday morning, moving from the office of the federal justice minister into a major intersection near the Supreme Court of Canada. The crowd caused a traffic jam that backed up vehicles for blocks, but the delay was cleared in less than an hour as protesters dispersed.

Similar protests in Vancouver tied up traffic at different points of the city throughout the day.

B.C. Premier John Horgan said anti-pipeline demonstrators who prevented people from entering the legislature for his government's throne speech on Tuesday need to respect the rights of others.

"Peaceful demonstration is fundamental to our success as a democracy," he told a news conference in Victoria on Wednesday. "But to have a group of people say to others you are illegitimate, you are not allowed in here, you are somehow a sellout to the values of Canadians is just plain wrong, and I want to underline that."

The economic impact of the demonstrations has started to crystallize: Canadian National Railway Co. warned Tuesday that it would have to close "significant" parts of its network unless blockades on its rail lines were removed.

Passenger rail services have also been affected in Ontario, Quebec and B.C., with Via Rail cancelling service on its Montreal-Toronto and Ottawa-Toronto routes until at least the end of the day on Friday because of a blockade near Belleville, Ont. It had previously cancelled service on those routes until the end of the day on Thursday.

Via has also said a blockade near New Hazelton, B.C., means normal rail service is being interrupted between Prince Rupert and Prince George.

In Manitoba, Premier Brian Pallister said the Justice Department will seek an injunction to end a rail blockade west of Winnipeg and have it enforced within a few days.

"As much as we will always respect the right of protesters to have a voice, they don't have a veto and ... they don't have the right to put their rights ahead of everyone else and to disregard the laws of our province and country," he said in an interview.

The Alberta wheat and barley commissions said rail disruptions of just a few days will cause economic loss for farmers, who have faced difficult harvest conditions.

"Delays will result in farmers being unable to deliver their grain, meaning they can't be paid at least until service resumes," said Dave Bishop, chair of the barley commission. "We are still recovering from the harvest from hell and need reliable grain movement in order to get back on track."

Mohawks at a barricade that has disrupted rail traffic near Montreal said they'll remain in place as long as the RCMP is present on Wet'suwet'en territory.

Tekarontake, a Kahnawake Mohawk, said the conflict is the result of a failure by governments and others to accept that the land belongs to the people who continue to adhere to the ways of their ancestors.

"That's whose land this is, we have never disconnected ourselves from our mother. This land is our mother," he said. "We haven't abandoned her, we still love her, we care for her and we will defend her to the best of our ability."

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan said Transport Minister Marc Garneau is "seized" with the blockades affecting railways.

"Our economy really relies on our ability to safely transport goods across the country," he said.

Asked how he could assure industry that natural resource projects can proceed in Canada, O'Regan said there will always be differing opinions.

"As we work toward net zero (emissions) by 2050 and considering we are an economy that relies heavily on natural resources and natural resource development, there's always going to be that friction. There will always be that tension."

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2020.



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 Pipeline standoff

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Protesters continued to block roads, train tracks and marched on government offices all in support of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary chiefs.

One of Canada’s busiest rail corridors is paralyzed as demonstrators show support for the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. AnnieClaireBO has more:

Protesters continued to block roads, train tracks and marched on government offices all in support of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary chiefs.



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Solidarity blockades have echoed across Canada in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. MelaneNagy explains how it’s impacting travel and freight. 

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Cenovus Energy reports $113M fourth-quarter profit, total production up
WITH NARY A THANKS TO ALBERTA TAXPAYERS FOR THE TAX CREDIT KENNEY GAVE THEM 
Cenovus Energy reports $113M fourth-quarter profit, total production up
Cenovus Energy Inc. reported a fourth-quarter profit of $113 million compared with a loss of nearly $1.36 billion in the same quarter a year earlier.
The oilsands company says the profit amounted to nine cents per share for the quarter ended Dec. 31 compared with a loss of $1.10 per share in the fourth quarter of 2018. 

 Total production from continuing operations amounted to 467,448 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up from 432,713 in the last three months of 2018.

  Cenovus says it successfully ramped up its crude-by-rail shipping capacity in 2019 and topped its target in December with average rail loading volumes of nearly 106,000 barrels per day.  

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 Last month, oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. said it will aim to achieve "net zero" greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It added it will reduce its emissions per barrel by 30 per cent by 2030, while keeping its total emissions flat. 

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Freeland, Blocked
Pipeline protesters block Freeland from Halifax meeting, tell her to call police


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Pipeline protesters block Freeland from Halifax meeting, tell her to call police
Pipeline protesters linked arms to physically block Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland from entering a meeting at Halifax City Hall.
Freeland planned to meet with Halifax Mayor Mike Savage on Wednesday, but a group of protesters standing in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in British Columbia blocked the front door of the building.

 “No thank you, no thank you,” a protester told Freeland, adding that she may need to call the police to remove the group. “This will not happen. This meeting is not happening.” 

Freeland was eventually able to get into the building and attend the meeting. 

Protesters across Canada have disrupted travel for several days in a show of solidarity for the Wet'suwet'en Nation, whose hereditary chiefs oppose the construction of a 670-kilometre natural gas pipeline through northern B.C. Clashes began last week between RCMP and protesters in Wet’suwet’en territory after officers began to move in to enforce a court-ordered injunction requiring protesters to stop blocking roads.

 Blockades around the country have now halted railway service for five days. Via Rail said that 223 trains will have been cancelled by Thursday, affecting at least 34, 200 passengers. 

In Ontario, a demonstration in Belleville has blocked train travel on the busy corridors between Toronto and Montreal and Toronto and Ottawa. Service from Toronto to Southwestern Ontario, between Montreal-Ottawa and Montreal-Quebec is unaffected, Via Rail said. 

Airlines and bus companies have both reported an uptick in travellers. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he recognized the “important democratic right” of peaceful protests and encouraged “all parties to dialogue to resolve this as quickly as possible.” “This is an important part of our democracy in Canada, but we are also a country of the rule of law and we need to make sure those laws are respected,” Trudeau said at a press conference in Senegal on Wednesday. 

Deputy PM Freeland physically blocked by demonstrators ahead of meeting with Halifax mayor


Blockades have been occurring across Canada in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation's fight against the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which crosses their traditional, unceded territory.
Source Globalnews.ca 13.2.2020

“I absolutely respect the right of Canadians across the country to exercise their right to peaceful protest,” Chrystia Freeland said after being physically confronted by Wet'suwet'en solidarity protesters in Halifax . 

Blockades have been occurring across Canada in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation's fight against the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which crosses their traditional, unceded territory.

  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was physically blocked from entering Halifax City Hall on Wednesday by demonstrators supporting the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in northern B.C.

  Freeland was scheduled to meet with Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, but was confronted by several demonstrators who blocked her entrance to City Hall. She was eventually able to squeeze through the doors. 

 “I absolutely respect the right of Canadians across the country to exercise their right to peaceful protest,” Freeland told reporters.

  “The protesters did express the view that they wanted to prevent me from having this meeting with the mayor and his team. “Respectfully, that was not a view I was prepared to agree with.”

  Freeland added that it’s important for all people in Canada to “go about their legitimate and rightful business, even as other Canadians are expressing their right to peaceful protest.”

  “Having that balance, having that mutual respect of each other is very important,” she said. 

  Earlier in the day, the deputy prime minister met with Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil at One Government Place, where she was also met by about 30 demonstrators. 
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Coastal GasLink pipeline dispute is a nation-to-nation matter



Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs from left, Rob Alfred, John Ridsdale and Antoinette Austin, take part in a rally in Smithers, B.C., in January 2020 against the Coastal GasLink project. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
February 6, 2020 7.59pm GMT

There have been two encouraging recent developments in the longstanding conflict over the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline on the territory of the Wet’suwet’en nation in northern British Columbia, though matters are on very shaky ground.

The $6.2 billion pipeline would transport natural gas from northeastern B.C. to an export terminal at Kitimat. Its route crosses the unceded territory of the Wet'suwet'en nation.

The pipeline was approved by the provincial government and the elected band councils of 20 First Nations along its route, including five in Wet'suwet'en territory. But the project has been opposed steadfastly by Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. There have been protests, blockades, court injunctions, police roadblocks and arrests.
Cullen is seen in the House of Commons in
 this 2017 photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Recently, the province appointed former NDP MP Nathan Cullen as liaison to the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. Most recently, the hereditary chiefs agreed to sit down with the province for talks, though those talks are currently in limbo.
Conflict heated up

The conflict escalated after a court issued an injunction in late December 2019 prohibiting opponents from obstructing the project.

The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs then issued an eviction notice to Coastal GasLink. The RCMP established an access control checkpoint and initiated aerial surveillance. Protests and arrests spread to the provincial capital.
Indigenous young people occupy the B.C. Energy and Mines Ministry
 office in Victoria on Jan. 21, 2020, in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en
 hereditary chiefs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ta'Kaiya Blaney
Indigenous and human rights groups have expressed concern that Indigenous rights, including the right to free, prior and informed consent to resource development, are being infringed in Wet’suwet’en territory.
‘Rule of law’ argument

In the midst of these developments, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced that the “rule of law” must prevail. He argued that the project “has every right to proceed,” it will be built and “British Columbia is moving on.”

The appointment of the provincial liaison and the hereditary chiefs’ agreement to sit down for talks are welcome steps. But they will have lasting value only if they pave the way for direct leader-to-leader meetings between the hereditary chiefs, Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs have repeatedly requested such meetings. As one of them reiterated recently, they want “face-to-face meetings with fellow decision-makers.”

Horgan has declined these requests, even during a recent tour of northern B.C. For his part, Trudeau considers the dispute a provincial matter.
Leader-to-leader talks urgently needed

Fundamentally, this is not a dispute between Coastal GasLink and the Wet’suwet’en, nor between hereditary chiefs and Indian Act band councils. It goes to the core of the relationship between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous youth show support for the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs
 at the B.C. legislature. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dirk Meissner

There is a tendency to dismiss the hereditary chiefs as just a group of opponents, in contrast to the 20 First Nations that have approved the pipeline. This is deeply misleading.

The plaintiffs in the landmark Delgamuukw case before the Supreme Court were the hereditary chiefs, not the band councils. The court accepted detailed evidence of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary governance system and confirmed that the Wet’suwet’en never surrendered title to their ancestral lands.

The hereditary chiefs are not merely a group of disgruntled opponents; they represent the Wet’suwet’en system of law and governance.

The fact that band councils created under the Indian Act endorsed the project and signed agreements with Coastal GasLink cannot justify ignoring Indigenous law or the Crown’s obligation to meet with the hereditary chiefs. Nor can the dispute be resolved by meetings between Coastal GasLink and the hereditary chiefs.
The law is clear

The Supreme Court has been clear: The Crown must engage directly with the Indigenous group whose rights are at stake. This obligation cannot be fulfilled by third parties with vested interests in the project’s success.

Horgan’s insistence on the “rule of law” fails to acknowledge that the relevant law includes not just the injunction order and regulatory approvals but the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, and — crucially — Wet’suwet’en laws and institutions.

The hereditary chiefs embody those laws and institutions and enjoy an authority that predates the arrival of the British and the creation of the Canadian state. This authority is entitled to respect.

In an age of truth and reconciliation, respect for the rule of law must include respect for the authority of Indigenous law and a commitment to work out a just and sustainable relationship between Indigenous and settler Canadian legal systems.
Undermining reconciliation

The failure of Horgan and Trudeau to meet with the hereditary chiefs risks undermining Canada’s collective effort to achieve reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.Trudeau meets with Horgan after a First 
Ministers conference in December 2018
 in Montreal. 
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Canadians are just beginning to confront our colonial past and present and to address the longstanding wrongs inflicted on Indigenous Peoples. Initial positive steps in this direction, including Canada’s promises to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ring hollow if provincial and federal leaders refuse to honour the hereditary chiefs’ request for a meeting, let alone recognize and respect Wet’suwet’en law.

Read more: Tsilhqot’in blockade points to failures of justice impeding reconciliation in Canada

Reconciliation and justice cannot be achieved by the brute force of the RCMP or the self-interests of energy companies.

This is why, on Jan. 22, 2020, we signed a letter, along with more than three dozen legal academics and professionals from across the country, urging Horgan and Trudeau to immediately sit down with the hereditary chiefs.

We’ve demanded they commit to resolving this issue by recognizing the authority of Indigenous laws and governance institutions, implementing Indigenous Peoples’ right to free, prior and informed consent, fulfilling the Crown’s constitutional obligations and upholding the honour of the Crown. 
Phillip addresses a news conference in Vancouver
 in January 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs recently called on Horgan to “get off his high colonial horse and honour the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs with his personal presence.”

The serious work of reconciliation demands nothing less.

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Authors
Stepan Wood

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Society & Sustainability, University of British Columbia
Gordon Christie

Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
Jocelyn Stacey

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
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