Nearly 200 youth from a number of Metro Vancouver municipalities walked out of class Wednesday afternoon to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Youth in some Metro Vancouver municipalities walked out of class Wednesday to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The pipeline company is looking for certainty that the twinned pipeline will be built and has set a deadline of May 31 for political assurances on this front. 'Youth can often make huge moves'In Vancouver, youth, performers and speakers showed up at the Vancouver Art Gallery at around 3 p.m. People CBC spoke to in the crowd said they had come to the gallery after walking out of high schools in West Vancouver, Vancouver and Richmond. High school students from Little Flower Academy in Vancouver were among the roughly 200 youth who showed up Wednesday for the rally against the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2018 22:16 UTC