The costly completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX)—Canada’s only pipeline system transporting crude oil from Alberta to the West Coast—has been a massive boon for Canada’s oil industry while posing existential threats to the environment and to First Nations. One of the last portions of the pipeline expansion was completed on the sacred Secwépemc site called Pípsell, near Kamloops, British Columbia, in violation of prior agreements with, and the treaty rights of, members of the Secwépemc Nation. In Pípsell: The Last Stand, award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French journalist Brandi Morin and documentary filmmaker Geordie Day expose in stunning cinematic detail the human and environmental costs of Canada’s TMX pipeline—and they follow the intense, dangerous, brave struggle of Indigenous land defenders and their allies to halt the completion of the Pípsell expansion.
Pípsell: The Last Stand was produced in partnership with The Real News Network and Ricochet Media. The documentary made its global debut at the 2025 Calgary Justice Film Festival. If you are interested in organizing an in-person screening of Pípsell: The Last Stand, please send inquiries to contact@therealnews.com
Credits:
- Written and hosted by Brandi Morin
- Directed by Geordie Day and Brandi Morin
- Additional editorial and production support provided by Maximillian Alvarez, Kayla Rivara, Ethan Cox, Andrea Houston
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This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by Brandi Morin.
Brandi Morin | Radio Free (2026-03-09T19:36:11+00:00) Pípsell: The last stand (Documentary). Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2026/03/09/pipsell-the-last-stand-documentary-2/
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