Postal workers hold surprise picket at Richmond plant

PSAC / UPCE strike at Canada Post: Day 4 Published November 20th, 2008 psacbc.com [Public Service Alliance of Canada = PSAC,  Union of Postal Communications Employees = UPCE, Canadian Union of Postal Workers = CUPW] Early this morning in Vancouver, after a very successful evening setting up a surprise picket line at the Richmond plant [...]

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Ontario prisoner faces charges after flooding police station

Prisoner faces charges after toilet tantrum November 20, 2008 The Hamilton Spectator ST. CATHARINES (Nov 20, 2008) [Ontario] A man faces several charges after Niagara police say a major flood at police headquarters was caused by a prisoner who tore a toilet out of the wall inside a holding cell. Police say the water caused [...]

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Algonquins block Quebec highway again, five more arrested

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 19, 2008 SQ riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway [Algonquin Territory, Quebec] Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / – SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during [...]

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Trashing Police Cars in Quebec: In Praise of Fog

Trashing Police Cars in Quebec: In Praise of Fog Sunday, November 16, 2008 http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/ Check out the following nice tidbit from the Journal de Montreal, translated by yours truly. Funny how they fail to mention the most high profile attacks over the past two years, the police cars torched in Montreal’s East End by the [...]

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Bomb threat clears Burnaby RCMP HQ

Bomb threat at RCMP HQ Mia Thomas, Burnaby Now [British Columbia] Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008 The Burnaby RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] detachment was evacuated for a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon after someone called in a bomb threat. At around 4 p.m., a man called 911 and said only that he was [...]

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Vancouver: Sabotaged 5 Cop, Probation Offices

Vancouver: Sabotaged 5 Cop, Probation Offices [Posted by anonymous on November 16, 2008, to ottawa.indymedia.ca] [British Columbia] Over the night of November, 14th, 2008 we sabotaged a total of five Community Policing Centres and Probation Offices. Probation offices on Burrard St. and on Commercial Drive had their locks glued and wire placed in the locks [...]

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Saskatchewan’s singing the jailhouse blues

Saskatchewan’s singing the jailhouse blues Two more escapes on weekend; continuing series of prison breaks sparked suspension of deputy minister and internal review JOE FRIESEN From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail November 11, 2008 Two more prison breaks in Saskatchewan – one foiled, the other that saw an 18-year-old man get away – have once again [...]

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Burning barricade suspects held for bail hearings

Burning barricade suspects held for bail hearings November 12, 2008 Guelph Mercury staff GUELPH [Ontario] Five people are facing charges after being arrested at a burning barricade in south Guelph. Guelph Police arrived at the corner of Gordon Street South and Clair Road just before 9 a.m. Monday to find about 20 people building a [...]

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RBC Attacked in Victoria, BC

RBC Attacked in Victoria, BC [Posted on November 10, 2008, to no2010.com] In the early hours of Saturday November 8th [2008] I paid a visit to the Royal Bank on Cook St. in Victoria, BC. The locks were glued, ATMs were disabled and painted, and anti-2010 and anarchist slogans were painted on the property. The [...]

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B.C. prisoners refuse to go back to cells, try to get on roof

B.C. prison under lockdown after fight breaks out among inmates Nov 9, 2008 AGASSIZ, B.C. — A British Columbia prison was placed under lockdown over the weekend after a fight broke out among inmates. The Correctional Service of Canada says inmates at Kent Institution in Agassiz were in the prison’s gymnasium Saturday evening when the [...]

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