Kinder Morgan protests are not ‘child’s play’ and may constitute terrorism one day

As Québec City demonstrated, and as Burnaby may show one day, terrorism is not the sole purview of one ideological bent. We need to be open to other possibilities and let the facts dictate our response.

Protesters, pictured April 7, 2018, at Burnaby Mountain against the Trans Mountain pipeline. Those who passionately defend our planet need to be told that they will be held accountable for serious acts of violence. I don’t know about you, but having a charge of 'terrorism' held over your head cannot and should not be seen as a badge of honour, writes Phil Gurski. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

April 30, 2018

OTTAWA—I consider myself a fairly reasonable and rational person. I also have had a hankering for science since I was a kid and do everything possible to keep up with developments in a variety of fields. Among those is environmental science and, of course, that particular study is focused a great ...

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