Ep. 131: Settler consternation over consultation with Indigenous peoples

Is a controversial pipeline now a pipe-dream? Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has just ruled that plans to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline are to be put on hold until the government gets its act together on the potential impacts of greater oil tanker traffic on marine ecosystems and on its failure to meaningfully consult Indigenous peoples. But is this ruling a slam dunk? What's to be made of the heated, even hysterical, reaction from some quarters? And where could or should things go from here? Back at this all-new roundtable this week are Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Candis Callison, visiting professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University (on leave from UBC). // Our theme is 'nesting' by birocratic