Six Nations men stop Hagersville development again

Protesters facing court injunction Developer fed up with land dispute February 25, 2009 Rachel De Lazzer The Hamilton Spectator HAGERSVILLE (Feb 25, 2009) [Six Nations territory, Ontario] Pressure was mounting yesterday for natives to leave a housing development site where construction has been delayed for four months. Developer Voortman & Associates Ltd. is seeking a [...]

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Arson suspected after fire burns Mississauga construction site

Arson suspected after fire burns construction site Updated: Sun Feb. 22 2009 ctvtoronto.ca [Ontario] An early-morning fire has destroyed a group of Mississauga townhouses near Burnhamthorpe Road East and Ponytrail Drive. It is the third time in less than a week that a construction site in the west end has caught on fire. Const. Wayne [...]

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Vancouver Anti-Olympic Torch Light Parade Lights Up the Streets!!!

Anti-Olympic Torch Light Parade Lights Up the Streets!!! February 12, 2009 – no2010 Torch Protest Feb 12, 2009 [British Columbia] From 150-200 people participated in the Anti-Olympic Torch Light Parade marking the 1-Year Countdown to the 2010 Winter Games on Feb 12, 2009 in downtown Vancouver. After rallying at Victory Square at 6PM, where a [...]

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Vancouver vandals plaster Drive in fight against policing centre

Vandals plaster Drive in fight against policing centre Posters accuse police of murder, promise revenge Sandra Thomas, Vancouver Courier [British Columbia] Published: Friday, February 13, 2009 Anonymous vandals targeting the Grandview Woodland Community Policing Centre on Commercial Drive have plastered the neighbourhood with posters asking for help in forcing the non-profit centre from the neighbourhood. [...]

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Vandals threaten future of Vancouver policing centre

‘Anarchists’ return to smash new windows ‘We are not police,’ society says By Cheryl Chan, The Province [British Columbia] February 9, 2009 A community policing centre on Commercial Drive is in desperate straits after being targeted three times in recent months by vandals. The Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre, which had its windows and door smashed [...]

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Atlantic prisoners refuse to go back to cells

Prison unit in lockdown Published Saturday February 7th, 2009 By Yvon Gauvin Moncton Times & Transcript staff [New Brunswick] RENOUS – Unit 1 at the Atlantic Institution was in lockdown mode yesterday after a group of inmates refused to return to their cells Thursday night, forcing prison officials to call out its emergency response team [...]

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Police raid and resistance at Six Nations

Raid in Six Nations By Janie Jamieson February 5, 2009 For some time now women and men at Six Nations have been slowly re-asserting their sovereignty . This includes exerting the right to provide for their families within their own well defined homeland. (Turtle Island). This includes exerting their right to provide for their families [...]

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Boy charged in arson that gutted B.C. lieutenant-governor’s home

Boy charged in arson that gutted B.C. lieutenant-governor’s home Thursday, February 5, 2009 CBC News [British Columbia] A 13-year-old boy has been charged with arson, breaking and entering, and theft following a fire last weekend at the private home of B.C. Lt.-Gov. Steven Point, police said Thursday. The RCMP arrested the boy, from a First [...]

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Prisoners trash cells in Regina

Incident at Regina jail results in lockdown Monday, February 2, 2009 CBC News [Saskatchewan] Some inmates at the Regina Correctional Centre received cuts and bruises on the weekend when a vandalism incident sparked more problems. It started Saturday night when an inmate ripped a sprinkler head off the ceiling of his cell. That led to [...]

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