Police confirm end of Niagara Detention Centre riot

Police confirm end of Niagara Detention Centre riot
Sat Mar. 28 2009
ctvtoronto.ca [Ontario]
A riot involving 17 inmates has ended at Niagara Detention Centre late Saturday afternoon.
Police offered few details on the riot, but they did confirm that the inmates were wearing masks and did have control of a portion of the facility.
There is no word on [...]

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Rampant car arsons in Winnipeg

Man shocked to find his car set ablaze
Police call act random vandalism
By: Gabrielle Giroday
Winnipeg Free Press [Manitoba]
March 26, 2009
HE survived a war in Bangladesh in the early 1970s.
However, the most shocking personal experience Canadian immigrant Selim Momtaz said he’s had was waking up Saturday to learn vandals ignited his car and three others on his [...]

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Arson suspected in blaze at home of Manitoba Mountie

Arson suspected in blaze at home of Manitoba Mountie
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
CBC News
The home of an RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] officer in northern Manitoba was deliberately torched early Wednesday morning, police say, the second arson of a Mountie’s residence in less than a year.
The officer’s trailer was empty when another RCMP officer, who was [...]

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Calgary: 500 Anti-Racists Shut Down March by 50 Fascists

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Protest groups upset over rally violence
By KATIE SCHNEIDER, SUN MEDIA
The Calgary Sun [Alberta]
March 23, 2009
CALGARY — Anti-Racist Action Calgary is condemning the violent actions of protesters demonstrating on their side of the line who clashed with the Aryan Guard at a weekend rally.
Three protesters were arrested Saturday when the anti-racist group [...]

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Blasts from the Past: Vancouver Anti-Cop Action & Woodwards Squat

International Day Against Police Brutality – Vancouver – March 15 – 2007

Woodward’s Squat -  Vancouver – 2002

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Workers occupy Windsor auto plant

$400,000 deal to end plant blockade
By Donald McArthur, The Windsor Star [Ontario]
March 19, 2009
Aradco and Aramco workers received $400,000 from Chrysler to end their blockade of two shuttered auto parts plants in Windsor and will go after the plants’ U.S.-based owners for outstanding severance monies.
The offer from Chrysler amounts to eight weeks vacation pay for [...]

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Annual Anti-Police Riot in Montreal

International Day Against Police Brutality in Montreal
March 15, 2009
Undercover cops attacked after making arrest

Demonstration and barricade building

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17 to be arraigned today
Montreal Gazette [Quebec]
March 16, 2009
MONTREAL – Seventeen people are to be arraigned at the Montreal Municipal Courthouse Monday afternoon on charges related to Sunday’s chaotic march through [...]

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Olympic Promotional Event Disrupted in Toronto

Vanoc/AFN Olympic Promotional Event Disrupted in Toronto
[Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics = VANOC / Assembly of First Nations = AFN]
[Posted March 14, 2009, to no2010.com]
On March 8, 2009, a promotional event for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Aboriginal torch bearers was disrupted in Toronto [Ontario] by 2010 Solidarity. Here is a video link [...]

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Resistance 2010 Banner Drop, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Resistance 2010 Banner Drop, Halifax, Nova Scotia
[Submitted by anon on March 12, 2009, to anarchistnews.org]
Just before the sunrise at the beginning of the work week we unfurled a huge banner off the CN rail train bridge above Chebucto Rd., a main thoroughfare for daily commuters. The banner read;
FUCK THE CORPORATE CIRCUS
G8/SPP/OLYMPICS
EXPECT RESISTANCE
Solidarity with the social [...]

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