By THE CANADIAN PRESS
BRANTFORD, Ont. — An aboriginal activist whose weekend arrest sparked protests in
Forty-three-year-old Stephen Powless of Ohsweken, Ont., was ordered to pay a surety of one-thousand dollars during a brief court appearance in
He’ll be back in court on Sept. 26.
Powless, along with two teens who cannot be identified, were charged with mischief and breach of a court order stemming from demonstrations at construction sites in
The arrests sparked a blockade of the Highway 6 bypass in
That was followed by a brief protest by town residents.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty praised police and local community leaders in how they’re dealing with the ongoing land claim dispute, and called on the federal government to step up efforts to resolve it.