When Indigenous Owners Become the Target

Two of four Gitxsan Development Corporation vehicles destroyed in an arson attack in New Hazelton, BC, August 18, 2025. Photo: RCMP

The attack on Gitxsan Development Corporation vehicles isn’t an isolated incident — it’s the logical endpoint of a campaign that has learned to treat Indigenous economic actors as infrastructure targets

The Corridor

Protesters march following a blockade of a CN rail line in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders in St-Lambert, Que., Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.

A river crossing in the BC interior. A manufactured wilderness. A nation that still hasn’t had an honest conversation about what it actually built — and what was done to stop it.

The protest industrial complex

Scene at the B.C. Legislature in February 2020, two years before the notorious Morice River drill site attack. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

The road to the drill site: how theory, money, and militant fusion led to the most costly unsolved act of domestic terrorism in Canadian history.