B.C. communications tower destroyed in blaze

Shaw will replace tower destroyed in weekend blaze
Lori Jenks, Comox Valley Echo
Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
CUMBERLAND, B.C. — A weekend fire caused up to $2 million in damage and destroyed a Shaw Communications transmission tower, knocking out some cable-TV and Internet services.
RCMP said a door appeared to have been tampered with and there was evidence [...]

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Ontario: Attack on CP Rail!

Ontario: Attack on CP Rail!
2008-10-13
[Posted by Anonymous to friendsofgrassynarrows.com, October 21, 2008]
In an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles across the tracks just to the north of their main intermodal yard outside Toronto. A pile of fallen trees [...]

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Another B.C. pipeline blast

B.C. town on edge after pipeline blast
Locals scared and angry after recent attacks
Elise Stolte, Larissa Liepins, Tamara Cunningham and Andrew Bergland, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, October 17
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. – It’s the question on everyone’s lips here in this remote northern B.C. town: Who’s waging war on the oil industry?
In less than a week, two [...]

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B.C. sour gas pipeline bombed

RCMP say bomb placed along EnCana pipeline
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail Update
October 14, 2008
A hunter discovered a two-metre-wide crater underneath a British Columbia pipeline Sunday that RCMP believe was caused by a bomb.
The blast was discovered early Sunday morning under an EnCana sour gas pipeline in Northeastern B.C., east of Dawson Creek near the Alberta border, [...]

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Anti-Cop/Anti-Prison Graffiti in Hamilton

Police go to the wall, six vandals arrested
October 11, 2008
John Burman
The Hamilton Spectator [Ontario]
(Oct 11, 2008)
It appears somebody doesn’t like the extra heat Hamilton police have been giving graffiti taggers lately.
Even as police made their sixth mischief arrest in a month Thursday night — catching a tagger red-handed at Gage Avenue North and Lloyd Street [...]

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Halifax: Coordinated attack on political offices

Halifax: Coordinated attack on political offices
[Submitted by anon on October 7, 2008 to anarchistnews.org]
On the night of October, 5th two simultaneous attacks happened against the Liberal and Conservative candidate headquarters. Both offices had their windows smashed and one was covered in graffiti.
This action was carried out because we have nothing but contempt to show towards [...]

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Algonquins Block Highway, Hospitalized After Police Attack

Algonquins Hospitalized After Police Attack
Barriere Lake Solidarity Collective, October 7, 2008
UPDATE: An Algonquin man is hospitalized the morning after Quebec police shot him in the chest with a tear-gas cannister. A disabled teenage girl was also treated with oxygen in the local Health Clinic. Twenty two children under eight and two babies were caught in [...]

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Fire-ravaged Surrey condo was supposed to revitalize area

Fire-ravaged condo was supposed to revitalize area
Updated Fri. Oct. 3 2008
Darcy Wintonyk, ctvbc.ca
When the second phase of the Quattro condo development in the Whalley area of Surrey, B.C. was decimated by fire Wednesday, it not only destroyed the building, it scorched the dreams of the city of Surrey.
The municipality was counting on the tony $625-million [...]

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