NDP MP Kennedy Stewart is one of over 200 people arrested on a Burnaby construction site in metro Vancouver, where the Texas energy giant is trying to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The House of Commons breaks for a constituency week on Monday and returns May 22, which means that between now and the end of the month, the Commons sits for nine days. Legislation often takes longer than that to become law.

The environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying "dirty tar sands oil" would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.

The former B.C. government of Christy Clark pressed Ottawa in 2016 to fix 11 "gaps" that could turn the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project into a disaster, reveal internal briefing notes obtained by National Observer.

Billboards supporting the massive west coast pipeline expansion project — which has provoked a provincial struggle and split public opinion — have been going up in B.C. over the last week in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Kamloops, says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

A group of Canadian Indigenous leaders reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at parent company Kinder Morgan’s annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday. In a move seen as a victory for the project's opponents, shareholders voted for two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

Two have pled guilty to contempt of court for crossing the court-ordered injunction line while protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the gates of its Burnaby terminal construction site in British Columbia.

CanLit star Shaena Lambert tied herself to the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby pipeline terminal in an act of civil disobedience on Saturday. Lambert was arrested by the RCMP along with Cat Roivas, a Chippewayan woman who had already been arrested twice for blocking access to the Texas-based company’s tank farm.

“The facts and circumstances which have given rise to this motion are highly unusual and, indeed, extremely alarming,” said the motion, submitted on May 2 to the Federal Court of Appeal by lawyers for the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

The Chiefs of Ontario, representing 133 First Nations across the province, has lent its support to the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in a May 2 letter of support.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation "is of the view that the new evidence, viewed in the larger context of the existing evidence which is already before the Court, casts further unfavorable light on Canada's approach to 'consultation' with TWN," wrote lawyer Scott Smitt in a letter sent to the Federal Court of Appeal on April 29, 2018.

If the case launched by First Nations is reopened or appealed, here is a sample of some of the relevant evidence released through access to information legislation and other public information gathered by National Observer over the past two years.

British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

When the Tsleil Waututh (People of the Inlet) found out in 2012 about Kinder Morgan’s expansion plans (twinning the pipeline, dredging Burrard Inlet, increasing tanker traffic seven-fold to transport toxic bitumen to China), they held a community gathering on their reserve across the inlet from Kinder Morgan’s Westridge facility.

A lawyer representing the Tsleil-Waututh Nation has asked the Federal Court of Appeal to compel the release of the Trudeau government's Trudeau government Kinder Morgan secrets.