The University of Ottawa was one of the many schools across Canada that hosted a student walk-out to show support for hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation on Wednesday. An information session was set up in the school’s University Centre, where Indigenous youth helped attendees make sense of the situation.
In a display of solidarity with Wet’suwet’en, hundreds rallied and marched through downtown Ottawa on Monday. The goal was to pressure MPs to meet with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, and several members of the group staged a sit-in outside of the Prime Minister’s Office following the march.
Around 200 people rallied and marched through downtown Ottawa on Friday to show support for members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation who were arrested this past week for protesting the construction of a natural gas pipeline on their ancestral land in British Columbia.
