Quarmby

Crossing the Line

“The MBB seminar this afternoon is cancelled. The speaker has been arrested.” It was an email that the biochemistry department at Simon Fraser University will likely never forget. The message explained the absence of Dr. Lynne Quarmby, which prevented her from giving a seminar on November 21, 2014. Her arrest, along with those of over 100 others, was a part of a struggle against Trans Mountain, a Kinder Morgan-owned company conducting surveying work on Burnaby Mountain in preparation for the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. To understand why Quarmby and the other protesters thought the cause was important enough…

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