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mo4ch:>Trudeau scraps overseas trip after pipeline protesters BLOCK US-Canada bridge amid ongoing rail shutdowns (VIDEO) | Mo4ch News

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has cancelled his trip to Barbados after the protests against a gas pipeline that crosses indigenous land escalated, leading to major rail disruptions and a brief stop of traffic at the US-Canada border.The threat of transport paralyses, that has become increasingly real after protesters against British Columbia's Coastal GasLink pipeline briefly shut down a key border crossing between the US and Canada on Sunday afternoon, forced Trudeau to called off his visit to Barbados, where he was supposed to drum up support for Canada’s UNSC bid on Monday.The simmering conflict between the Wet’suwet’en nation’ and the central Canadian government that have since long locked horns over the gas pipeline that crosses the tribe’s territory in northern British Colombia flared up after armed police on February 10 swooped on Wet'suwet'en camp, arresting activists for blocking construction works. Nearly thirty people were nabbed in the raid, prompting widespread p…