MONTREAL - Commuter trains have been shut down for a second day on a train line near Montreal as supporters of a pipeline protest in northwestern British Columbia maintain their presence on the tracks. Officials at Exo, which runs the commuter trains in the Montreal area, announced early Tuesday that morning trains were cancelled. The blockade is being maintained by members of the Kahnawake Mohawk community just south of Montreal. Supporters of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who are [Read more]

The stage has been set for a possible confrontation between police and anti-pipeline protesters blocking access to four ports in the Vancouver area. On Sunday the protesters were served with a court injunction ordering them to stop blocking access to four ports in the Vancouver area, but the protesters say they intend to stand their ground. The court injunction, sought by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, orders protesters to leave the authority's lands and stop blockading access points [Read more]

CARSELAND, Alta. - Alberta's justice minister said Saturday that he expects protesters who have barricaded a fuel distribution terminal southeast of Calgary as part of a labour dispute in Saskatchewan to obey new enforcement provisions that were added to a court injunction against the demonstration. Doug Schweitzer had already said he expected RCMP to enforce a ruling from the Court of Queen's Bench, which granted Federated Co-operatives Ltd.'s request for an injunction Thursday against a [Read more]

SMITHERS, B.C. - RCMP say several of their vehicles have been damaged by metal spikes at a protest site where people are opposing a natural gas pipeline in the territory of the Wet'suwet'en nation. Mounties say the vehicles were damaged when they entered a court-ordered exclusion zone for protesters on Friday night. Police have been trying to clear protesters from the exclusion zone after an injunction was ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court. Four people were arrested by [Read more]

WINNIPEG - There's renewed talk of transporting western oil through the northern Manitoba port in Churchill, but any such project is likely to run into opposition from environmentalists and some people who live there. Using the sub-Arctic port on the western shore of Hudson Bay as a route for Prairie oil has been floated before. But it has been condemned largely due to the area's fragile ecosystem and Churchill's reputation for eco-tourism. "It's a terrible idea to even consider shipping [Read more]

SMITHERS, B.C. - The British Columbia government and First Nations hereditary chiefs say they have failed to reach an agreement on a peaceful resolution over the enforcement of an injunction in northwestern B.C. Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs proposed seven days of discussions to de-escalate the dispute over the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through the First Nation's traditional territory near Houston. Chief Woos, who also goes by Frank Alec, says in a statement that two [Read more]

Regina police have arrested four people involved in a labour dispute at the city's Co-op oil refinery. Police say four men from Saskatchewan face charges of mischief under $5,000 and disobeying a court order. Unifor says the accused are Local 594 members who were on a peaceful picket line at one of the refinery gates. Last month, officers arrested 14 union members, including Unifor's national president, after access was blocked to the plant. More than 700 refinery workers were locked [Read more]