Michael Toledano
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report Said Anti-Oil Activists Were National Security Threats
We spoke to some environmental and aboriginal activists to see if they were worried about a coming crackdown.
Indigenous Canadians Are Fighting the Uranium Mining Industry
A group of remote northern Dene trappers are fighting to preserve some of their traditional land from exploitation.
Enbridge Bailed On Its Own Open House in Aamjiwnaang
But they still gave out some environmental Starter Emergency Kits that are really only useful if you get lost in the woods.
Activists Across Ontario Are Targeting Enbridge’s Associates
On Monday, activists delivered a blow to oil pipeline giant Enbridge by locking employees out of affiliated banks, political offices, and other businesses.
New Oil and Gas Pipelines Could Pose a Serious Threat to Canada’s North West
“This is not a feasible project. There’s too much opposition to it and we’re really not willing to risk our territories, our waters, for projects that aren’t even economically sound."
‘Trick or Treaty’ Shows What Lengths the Government Will Go to Protect Their Interests
We spoke to director Alanis Obomsawin about her film Trick or Treaty, which looks at the infamous Treaty 9—the agreement wherein First Nations communities allegedly signed over sovereignty of their land.
This Couple Is Raising a Child at a Tailings Pond Blockade
We visited Molly Wickham and Cody Merriman, a couple raising their three-year old son at a blockade on unsurrendered indigenous land in British Columbia. The land is the site of a mining company backed tailings pond proposal that aims to create a...
Unist’ot’en Camp Evicted a Fracked Gas Pipeline Crew from their Territories
VICE Canada's Michael Toledano is embedded with a camp in Unist'ot'en, a pipeline blockade on unsurrendered indigenous land in the interior of BC. Here, he details the aftermath of a peaceful eviction of a pipeline crew, and the inner-workings of the...
Inside the Tar Sands' Last Healing Walk
We sent VICE Canada's Michael Toledano to visit the final Tar Sands Healing Walk in Alberta, where Indigenous residents on the front lines of bitumen extraction in Alberta came together to pray and protest the massive continental oil projects in their...
Ezra Levant's Conspiratorial Rhetoric Was Applauded by Oil Execs in Peace River, Alberta
Sun News talking head and 'Ethical Oil' author Ezra Levant was hired to give the keynote speech at this year's Peace Oil Sands Conference and Trade Show in Peace River, Alberta, the town where residents have abandoned their homes due to toxic air. He...
'No Enbridge' Might Have Been The Last Peaceful Northern Gateway Protest
Despite sustained rallying from the public, the Feds will likely approve Northern Gateway in June. According to some, that approval may lead to acts of civil disobedience and more direct forms of protest. We visited an anti-Gateway protest in Vancouver...
How Canada's First Nations Might Halt the Development of the Tar Sands
The constitutionally protected rights of indigenous people to hunt, fish, trap, and be consulted when new developments are being built are under attack. Following extreme deregulation to quickly develop Canada's oil-rich tar sands, indigenous rights...