Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Egypt's longest serving leader, Hosni Mubarak, died yesterday. Our Middle East editor

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between people and elephants. We look into why the Wildlife Department charged with protecting

the animals has handed out guns to shoot them with.

But first, for more than a century and a half, the land claims of Canada's indigenous people

have shaped the country's politics. And over the past three weeks, their protests have

stalled the nation's economy, the stated goal to shut down Canada. Railways, roads and ports have

been blockaded. The movement of food, heating fuel and agricultural exports and commodities have

been crippled. Most vocal among the demonstrators are the first nations, a group of Aboriginal people

who believe they should have control of their ancestral lands.

It's proved a tricky situation for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who's long presented himself

as an ally of the indigenous population. But he needs to bring the protests to a swift end.

The protest initially is about a gas pipeline that's been in the works for five, six years

in a nation called the Wetsuit and on the west coast of Canada in British Columbia.

John Iverson reports for the economist in Canada. They claim that it was unseated territory and that

the proponent of a gas pipeline has no right to build it without their permission.

That has mushroomed into a much bigger protest right across the country and really ground

colour to a halt. We always see ports blockaded in the west coast, rail lines right across the country.

But the main one has been this Toronto-Tremontory all-line and that has stopped the movement of

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