BC Youth Parliament Session takes place in December energeticcity.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from energeticcity.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives
A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead.
Emily Fagan is a Victoria-based freelance journalist passionate about reporting on social issues. You can find her work in Vice, the CBC, and Ricochet, or follow her on Twitter @thatemfagan. SHARES A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child.
Photo by Rodney Mitchell.
It was the first week of Kolin Sutherland-Wilson’s final semester at the University of Victoria. But he wasn’t there. Instead, on a chilly January morning in 2020, he sat alone on the front steps of the British Columbia legislature, dressed warmly and holding signs that called on provincial leaders to stand with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink project in their traditional territ