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Six Nations land protectors stop work on Brantford housing project

Posted in Development, Direct Action, Indigenous on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Protesters stop work on housing project
Posted By SUSAN GAMBLE, BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR STAFF [Ontario]
Friday, January 23, 2009
Workers will be off the job today at the Empire Homes housing development on Conklin Road after native protesters halted the project.
A representative of Empire Homes said the company voluntarily shut down work at the site Thursday and will remain [...]

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Canada: Anarchists Sabotage Bank

Posted in Anarchist, Business, Olympics, Politics on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Canada: Anarchists Sabotage Bank
[Submitted by anon on Sun, 2009-01-25 to anarchistnews.org]
On the 19th of January we sabotaged a Scotiabank location in Canada. We inserted glue and pins into two of the locks and poured glue over the keypads of the ATM machines and glued the cardslots after inserting homemade blank plastic cards. Scotiabank is [...]

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Saskatchewan: Native teen escapes cop car, freezes to death

Posted in Indigenous, Police, Rebellion on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Beauval mayor criticizes RCMP handling of teen’s escape
Calls Mounties’ reaction ‘on the edge of incompetence’
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
CBC News [Saskatchewan]
The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] should have notified people sooner about the escape of teenager in custody who was later found frozen to death, the mayor of a northern Saskatchewan town says.
“I would call it [...]

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Firebombing mystifies former oil sands executive

Posted in Business, Development, Industry, Rebellion on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Firebombing mystifies former oil sands executive
KATHERINE O’NEILL
The Globe and Mail
January 13, 2009
EDMONTON [Alberta] — A former top oil executive and his wife are searching for answers after the firebombing of their Edmonton home on the weekend left them homeless.
“My wife and I are deeply saddened by the loss of our home and our personal possessions,” [...]

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Manitoba prison trashed in riot

Posted in Indigenous, Prison, Rebellion on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Gangs clash in Manitoba prison riot
Jan 12, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG – Long-simmering tensions between two criminal gangs were behind a riot at a federal medium-security prison in Manitoba, says the Winnipeg Free Press.
The melee Saturday night seriously injured four inmates and damaged a living unit that houses 100 prisoners at Stony Mountain Institute.
The Free Press [...]

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Guelph, Ontario: Bank Sabotage!

Posted in Business, Direct Action on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Guelph, Ontario: Bank Sabotage!
[Submitted by anon on Mon, 2009-01-12 to anarchistnews.org]
January 10th, 2009
The Bank of Montreal at the corner of Edinburgh and Speedvale was attacked in the evening.
We filled the card slot of the two ATM’s with silicone, disabling the machine.
Banks finance development and repression, from new police stations to urban sprawl.
This action is in [...]

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RCMP probing new B.C. pipeline bombing

Posted in Development, Industry, Rebellion on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

RCMP probing new B.C. pipeline bombing
The Canadian Press
January 5, 2009
TOMSLAKE, B.C. — EnCana’s natural gas infrastructure in northern British Columbia has been the target of a fourth explosion, but officials with the Calgary-based energy giant still don’t know why it is the focus of a bomber’s anger.
Gas line workers discovered a partially destroyed metering shed [...]

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