Olympics Welcome to Vancouver signs paintbombed

Olympics Welcome to Vancouver signs paintbombed
[Posted by anonymous on February 27, 2008, at friendsofgrassynarrows.com]
26 February 2008 Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver)
Three olympic Welcome to Vancouver signs (at the southern highway entrances to Vancouver) were attacked with paintbombs. The presence of the olympics in our city makes us sick. Its signs and symbols litter the city, it [...]

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Maple Ridge student walkout Tuesday

Student walkout Tuesday
By Robert Mangelsdorf – Maple Ridge News [British Columbia] – February 23, 2008
Students across Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows plan to walk out of school on Tuesday, March 4 to protest the district’s switch to a co-ordinated linear timetable, but the organizer of an earlier rally wants nothing to do with it.
A group [...]

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Lockdown, visitor ban continue at Millhaven Institution near Kingston, Ont.

Lockdown, visitor ban continue at Millhaven Institution near Kingston, Ont.
Published: Friday, February 22, 2008
Canadian Press
KINGSTON, [Ontario] – Millhaven Institution, west of Kingston, Ont., remains in lockdown status one week after some incidents involving unruly prisoners.
A staff member was assaulted by a prisoner last Friday but was able to return to work the next day after [...]

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Six men charged in prison riot

Six men charged in prison riot
By Monisha Martins – Maple Ridge News [British Columbia] – February 22, 2008
Six men charged in connection with a riot at a Maple Ridge prison last August remain in custody.
The men were among 31 inmates at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre who caused extensive damage to a living unit in the [...]

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Vandals target Guelph’s newest hotel

Vandals target city’s newest hotel; opening not delayed
February 15, 2008
VIK KIRSCH
MERCURY STAFF
GUELPH [Ontario]
Quick action prevented vandalism from marring Tuesday’s opening of Guelph’s newest hotel.
The Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre was vandalized early Tuesday when someone smashed the glass of the main entrance door and adjacent windows, causing $1,500 damage, Guelph Police reported Wednesday.
A security [...]

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RBC Targeted Again

RBC Targeted Again
Ottawa Anarchists, 14.02.2008
[Published at ottawa.indymedia.org]
Another attack on RBC, corporate sponsor and accomplice to the genocide and ecocide perpetrated by VANOC and the various levels of Canadian government.
On the night of February 12th, 2008, bricks found their way through the windows of a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The branch targeted is [...]

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Ottawa taxi drivers shout “f— you” at city hall

Taxi drivers angered by mayor’s remarks
Jake Rupert , The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Anger verging on violence erupted at city hall Wednesday after taxi drivers interpreted remarks from Mayor Larry O’Brien as disrespectful.
Just before council voted to maintain its requirement for all taxis to have security cameras installed by July 1, Mr. O’Brien said [...]

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Delta Hotel Attacked on Opening Day in Guelph!

Delta Hotel Attacked on Opening Day in Guelph!
[Posted by anonymous to friendsofgrassynarrows.com on February 12th, 2008]
In the early morning of February the 12th, the opening day of the newly built Delta Hotel at Stone rd and Gordon, six large windows on the main entrance of the Hotel were smashed.
Delta Hotels are appearing wherever yuppie [...]

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Ottawa cabbies demonstrate against cameras

No security camera? No licence, mayor tells taxi drivers
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
CBC News
Ottawa taxi drivers are taking a big risk if they refuse to install security cameras inside their taxis, said Mayor Larry O’Brien.
“They risk having their licences lifted,” he said Tuesday after a meeting between the city and the taxi union. “That’s a big [...]

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Second riot at Fraser Regional prison in six months

Second riot at crowded jail
Amy Steele, The Times
[Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, British Columbia]
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A prisoner waves a towel out a window at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre Saturday. It was the second riot in six months at the Maple Ridge facility.
Carmine Marinelli/TIMES

Angry prisoners set fires, broke windows and smashed up their cells [...]

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