The frequent attacks on art by climate activists that have been making headlines over the past month have tended to be concentrated in western Europe. This may no longer be the case. 

On Saturday afternoon, two women linked to the group Stop Fracking Around threw maple syrup at a painting by Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada before gluing themselves to the wall underneath. They were filmed by a third accomplice. 

The activist group is calling for an end to the Coastal GasLink pipeline that is currently under construction in British Columbia, passing through several First Nations peoples’ traditional and unceded lands, including Wet’suwet’en territory.