Posted by admin on Sep 19th, 2009
Sat Sep. 19 2009 19:21:06, ctvottawa.ca
Police blocked access to a temporary border-crossing in Cornwall, Ont. for more than six hours on Saturday after Akwesasne Mohawks protested what they call unfair treatment by Canada Border Services. Cornwall police closed the Seaway International Bridge leading to the United States just after 11 a.m. because of a dispute between Mohawks and the government agency. Although the border-crossing remained open, the bridge was closed until just before 5:30 p.m. Those hoping to travel to the United States were being advised to cross the border at Dundee, Que., located 45 minutes east of Cornwall; or Prescott, Ont., about 45 minutes west of Cornwall.
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Posted by admin on Sep 17th, 2009
A petition and campaign has been initiated by the DTES Power of Women group against the City of Vancouver, VANOC, RCMP, and VPD in their attempts to change next year’s historic and sacred Feb 14 March for Murdered and Missing Women in order to ensure ‘flow of Olympic traffic’ down Hastings Street. The Power of Women group is based in the DTES neighbourhood and its membership is composed of women living in poverty who have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse.
Please sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/feb14/petition.html
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Posted by admin on Sep 16th, 2009
By Jeff Lee, Canwest News Service, September 16, 2009
VANCOUVER – Civil-rights activists say they’re worried police are infiltrating anti-Olympics groups, with a plan to influence or direct illegal activities that would justify a crackdown during the 2010 Winter Games. Robert Holmes, the president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, said he tried twice without success to get the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit (ISU) to promise not to place “agents provocateurs” in positions of power within anti-Olympics groups.
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Posted by admin on Sep 15th, 2009
September 15, 2009, CBC News
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics plans to dispatch 20 teams of observers to ensure protesters and advertisers don’t overshadow the Olympic message. The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics plans to dispatch 20 teams of observers to ensure protesters and advertisers don’t overshadow the Olympic message. But critics also plan to send out some observers of their own to keep an eye on the tactics of the Olympic organizers.
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Posted by admin on Sep 9th, 2009
By Kimberly Shearon, The Province, September 9, 2009
The B.C. government rolled out its Olympic education programs yesterday to less than enthusiastic support from teachers and school boards. The province spent $550,000 during the past three years developing the programs. “We felt it was a very good investment considering the education opportunities that there are with the Olympics this year,” said B.C. Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. But B.C. Teachers Federation president Irene Lanzinger was skeptical.
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