Guelph: Road Blockade in Solidarity with the Mohawk Nation

Guelph: Road Blockade in Solidarity with the Mohawk Nation
[Contributed by Anonymous to news.infoshop.org, June 20 2009]
[Ontario]
In the morning of June 17th 2009, a few people dressed in black blocked the Hanlon Highway at Paisley Road during rush hour.
Fallen trees and branches were pulled across the southbound lanes and two smoke bombs were set off to [...]

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Striking Windsor city workers suspected of sabotage

Tension rising on the line
City strike turns ugly
By Trevor Wilhelm, The Windsor Star [Ontario]
May 22, 2009
Tempers are boiling over and nerves are wearing thin as the CUPE strike drags into week six, with the frustration manifesting itself in allegations of picket line fights, vandalism, threats and stolen garbage.
Papa Cheney’s owner Alissa Coutts said her business [...]

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Saskatoon cab drivers suspended following protest

Cab drivers suspended following protest
David Hutton, The StarPhoenix [Saskatchewan]
Published: Friday, May 15, 2009
At least 25 taxi drivers have been suspended by United Cabs after raising allegations of racism and discrimination by their employer at a demonstration Wednesday.
The company denies the allegations and says it moved to lock out the employees for what it called a [...]

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RBC and GM Attacked in Vancouver – 420

RBC and GM Attacked in Vancouver – 420
[Published by annonomous, April 24, 2009, at ottawa.indymedia.ca]
Attacks on Olympic Sponsors
RBC and GM Attacked in Vancouver – 420
April 20 (420), 2009 – Thousands of people lit and smoked the torches of their choice in the vicinity of the 2010 Countdown Clock and all around Vancouver. Later that night [...]

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BC workers’ families demonstrate against workplace deaths

They won’t say sorry
South Asian Post [British Columbia]
Wed, April 22 2009
During the long hours he drives a Chilliwack cab to support his three young children, Jagjeet Sidhu has a lot of time to reflect upon the life that would have been had his young wife not died needlessly in a freeway crash two years ago.
Today, [...]

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Windsor scab cab attacked

Vet Cab talks break down
Dave Battagello and Donald McArthur, The Windsor Star [Ontario]
Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Tempers are allegedly flaring on Windsor’s streets as the nine-day strike by 300 Veteran Cab drivers drags on with no talks scheduled through the Easter weekend.
Colin Cutler, who has been picking up passengers at the train station in his [...]

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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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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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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 is [...]

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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 home and our personal possessions,” [...]

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