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 court injunction to keep natives away from [...]

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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 Patterson of Peel Regional Police [...]

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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 [...]

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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.
On Wednesday, the Courier reported [...]

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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 to smithereens, is now operating [...]

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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 to quell the disturbance.
No [...]

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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 on their OWN [...]

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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 Nations community in Chilliwack, [...]

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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 more rowdy behaviour from [...]

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