Canada: protests go mainstream as support for Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight widens

Protesters have blocked railways and barricaded ports in wave of dissent - and the pressure on Justin Trudeau has increased

As armed Canadian police officers advanced through snow towards their camp, the group of Indigenous women was absorbed in a drumming ceremony to honour the spirits of missing and murdered Indigenous women across the country.

Rows of red dresses hung from a fishing line slung across the road, and from pine and spruce trees in the surrounding forest - each one a memorial to the thousands of Indigenous women killed or disappeared in recent years.