Caracas-born journalist/periodista with the CBC Investigative Unit. Email: jorge.barrera(at) https://t.co/vfLGZGlRb2 DM (open) me for Signal/cell
Nov 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I was working on a broader piece about the ongoing situation in Wet'suwet'en territory based on a cache of RCMP notes and video from the 2019 raid. Some of it was used in recent CBC coverage. Here is some of what remained in the notebook. (Thread)
RCMP intel shared a photo of Anishinaabe man Freddy Stoneypoint before the 2019 operation. Weeks earlier, Trans Mountain security also identified Stoneypoint as a person of interest (POI).
Video of Stoneypoint (orange toque) arrest:
Dec 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nightmare COVID-19 outbreak crisis right now in Shamattawa First Nation, a fly-in community of a little over 1,000 people in northern Manitoba. The community has 91 cases and a test positivity rate of 50 per cent, according to NDP MP @nikiashton.
One Elder is reportedly in hospital with COVID-19 and TB. A COVID response member also tested positive for coronavirus, triggering the isolation of team members. The women's shelter also had to shut down after a staff member tested positive.