🧵 Legacy outlets have dropped the ball in their reporting on the role and authority of band councils vs. hereditary leadership at #Wetsuweten. The result has been rampant misunderstanding of core facts of this conflict, fueled by vested interests pushing bad info. 🧵 #bcpoli Tl;dr According to the Supreme Court of Canada and the governments of BC and Canada, the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership hold rights and title to their unceded territory. Not the band councils, who the pipeline company has signed agreements with. This is as settled as it gets.

At around 8 p.m. Atlantic time RCMP officers in Red Bank, New Brunswick shot and killed a Mi’kmaq man, identified by friends on social media as Rodney Levi. According to the police account he was tased repeatedly and then shot. Quebec’s BEI to investigate. bei.gouv.qc.ca/actualites/det… This is the second Indigenous person killed by the RCMP in New Brunswick in eight days. I have no words.

THREAD - Let's talk about the history of U.S.-backed coups and regime change, especially in Latin America. It's history far too many commentators seem to have forgotten in the current case of Venezuela. I'm going to assemble some resources on the topic in this thread. 1/ #cdnpoli "From 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times. That amounts to once every 28 months for an entire century." John H. Coatsworth, Harvard Review of Latin America. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/united-st… 2/