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Ontario Provincial Police moves to clear indigenous protest near Belleville
BY , Feb 24, 2020 3:17 PM - REPORT AN ERRORLAST UPDATED ON Apr 24, 2020 3:32 PM
Ontario Provincial Police officers arrest a protester at a rail blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ont., on Monday Feb. 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Ontario Provincial Police have moved to clear an indigenous rail blockade in Ontario that has crippled freight and passenger rail traffic in most of eastern Canada for nearly three weeks.
Ontario Provincial Police on Monday arrested some protesters on Tyendinaga Mohawk territory near Belleville, Ontario, east of Toronto.
Demonstrators have set up blockades in British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta and Quebec in solidarity with opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline project that crosses the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation in northwestern British Columbia.
Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation oppose the work on their traditional territory, despite support from elected councils along the pipeline route.
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