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TYENDINAGA TOWNSHIP — Via and CN Rail are not allowed at this crossing — and neither is the Toronto Sun.

Says who?

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Not the chief and council of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.

Not the OPP, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Doug Ford or elected Township of Tyendinaga Councillor Rick Phillips.

This order came from a man who — under a Mohawk warrior flag on his jacket — identifies as “First Nation, Big Chief, War Chief, Tomahawk.”

“You have to leave here now,” he said. “You are not allowed here.”

The CTV and CBC crews were OK to stay. But not us.

The intimidating bully got in my face and body checked me to show he meant it.

“I would call it belly bumping,” said a peer.

Whatever it was, I know I wouldn’t be allowed to do that to him.

If anti-pipeline protesters are allowed here, journalists are, too.

As confirmed by the OPP, the physical incident was on Township of Tyendinaga — not Indigenous — land, anyway.