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An Innu community on Quebec’s Lower North Shore is shaken by an intervention by wildlife officers who circled and attempted to enter a cabin in Ekuanitshit Monday evening, injuring an elderly woman in the process.
The officers, armed with a search warrant, were there to check for the presence of a boreal caribou carcass — a species of caribou listed as a threatened species under both federal and provincial legislation.
But the intervention turned tense.
Community members filmed and posted videos of the…