Over 100 arrested as tar sands civil disobedience spreads to Canada

Mongabay: After two weeks of sustained protesting at the US White House against the Keystone XL pipeline, with 1,252 people arrested, civil disobedience has now spread to Canada, home of the tar sands. Yesterday, around 500 people protested in Ottawa against Canada's controversial tar sands; 117 were arrested as they purposefully crossed a barrier separating them from the House of Commons in an act of civil disobedience. One of those arrested, Maude Barlow, chairperson of the environmental NGO Council of......

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