Both ends of the pipeline
On April 20, 2018, Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous-Settler Relations director was arrested on the West Coast for protesting the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. But what is happening in Mennonite churches at the other end of the pipeline? At Trinity Mennonite, on the south side of Calgary, Pastor Will Loewen listens to trains…
Crossing the (pipe) line
I never expected that Enbridge—the Calgary-based pipeline company best known for its contentious Northern Gateway proposal and a nasty spill from one of its U.S. lines in 2010—would push its way so far into my life. It started with a trip last August to B.C. first nations along the route of the proposed Gateway project,…
