Six Nations land protectors stop work on Brantford housing project

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 [...]

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Canada: Anarchists Sabotage Bank

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 [...]

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Saskatchewan: Native teen escapes cop car, freezes to death

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 [...]

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Firebombing mystifies former oil sands executive

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 [...]

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Manitoba prison trashed in riot

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 [...]

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Guelph, Ontario: Bank Sabotage!

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 [...]

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RCMP probing new B.C. pipeline bombing

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 [...]

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