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Native protesters won’t budge
Posted By Jeremy Ashley
Belleville Intelligencer [Ontario]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Native protesters erected a banner declaring the town of Deseronto was closed at a blockade of Old Highway 2 south of a disputed quarry.
Jeremy Ashley
Native protesters who seized a major portion of this small Hastings County town pledged Monday to maintain the disruption for [...]

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Police cars burned, stores looted in Montreal hockey riot
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
CBC News
Police say 16 people have been arrested after riotous celebrations swept through downtown Montreal late Monday night, leaving a trail of burned police cars and vandalized shops.

A burned police cruiser sits in downtown Montreal. At least five police cars were torched [...]

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Violent inmates blamed for riot; Joyceville bosses warned months ago, union official says
Posted By Rob Tripp
Kingston Whig-Standard Police Reporter
April 4, 2008
[Kingston, Ontario]
Senior prison bosses in Kingston were warned months ago that Joyceville penitentiary, where a riot erupted Monday, was a simmering trouble spot.
Internal prison reports show that there has been a spate of violent incidents [...]

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Extremist Activity Associated with the 2010 Olympics, the G8, and the SPP
11.04.2008
By Tom Quiggin – natsecintel@hotmail.com
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
P.O.Box 167 Herzliya 46150, Israel
In 2010, Canada will host at least three major events with a significant international profile, including the Winter Olympics, the G8 meetings and the Security and Prosperity Partnership meetings. Numerous groups [...]

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Ottawa Solidarity
[Posted by Anarchsits Against Authority to ottawa.indymedia.org, 11.04.2008]
The actions of those in the anti-CANSEC march were completed with the smashing of the windows of the Army Recruitment Centre on Slater St.
While others showed their solidarity with “Alex”, arrested arbitrarily by the police, by making a presence at the police station, we chose to show [...]

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Ottawa, Canada: Attack on police station and fire set…
[Contributed by Anonymous to infoshop.org/inews, April 11, 2008]
The morning of Thursday April 10th, a black bloc was called together to “shut down” CANSEC (secrity and weapons fair) and attack the system it expands. From the beginning of the demonstration an overwhelming police presence was mobilized to intimidate [...]

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CANSEC Arms Fair Opening Night Shut Down
[Contributed by Anonymous to infoshop.org/inews, April 08, 2008]

Tuxedoed corporate war profiteers and their government backers were forced to flee the Ottawa Congress Centre tonight as alarms sounded, fire trucks were called, and police searched in vain for the nefarious anarchists that shut down the opening night of CANSEC 2008, [...]

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Vandals deface national Peacekeeping Monument
Friday, April 4, 2008
CBC News

An Ottawa monument dedicated to Canadian peacekeepers has been defaced with graffiti apparently targeting the mission in Afghanistan.
On Friday, an anarchist symbol and the words “dead Afghan civilians” and “no more” were spray-painted in black on the pale stone wall that makes up the lower part of [...]

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Calgary prisoner makes Hollywood-style escape
Friday, April 4, 2008
CBC News
Calgary [Alberta] police continued their search Friday for a prisoner who escaped from custody by jumping into the back of a moving truck.
Police said Robert Plant, 44, escaped Thursday afternoon while he was being transported as part of an ongoing investigation.
Plant was standing with officers outside a [...]

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Rioting prisoners were armed with gym’s aluminum bats
Globe and Mail
ROBERT MATAS
April 2, 2008
Two lone, unarmed correctional officers in charge of as many as 40 prisoners fled for their lives when inmates armed with aluminum baseball bats from their B.C. prison’s sports equipment room went on a rampage on the weekend that left two men dead, [...]

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