Michael Schmidt

SFU professor Tim Takaro sentenced to 30 days in jail for opposing TMX

By: Pranjali J Mann, News Writer On the morning of June 13, SFU health sciences professor Tim Takaro was presented before the Supreme Court pertaining to his violation of the injunction zone around the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) project worksites. The injunction zone is a five metre perimeter around the TMX construction site made by the BC Supreme Court to prohibit protestors from impeding construction.  Previously, Takaro had climbed a tree at the TMX construction site in Burnaby. He occupied a tent around “100 feet up in a tree inside a Trans Mountain worksite [ . . . ] for…

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