Posted by admin on May 30th, 2009
By David Gonczol, Canwest News Service. May 30, 2009
AKWESASNE, Ont. — Mohawk Warriors from the Akwesasne reserve near Cornwall, Ont. say they will storm a Canada Border Services Agency post on Monday and shut down the international border crossing unless their political leaders receive a commitment from the federal government not to arm border guards at the post, which stands on reserve territory. The CBSA started arming guards in 2007, and officers at the Akwesasne reserve, which straddles the Ontario-Quebec-New York boundary, are scheduled to begin carrying 9 mm handguns on Monday. The Mohawks say they don’t want armed guards at the post because it would violate their sovereignty and increase the likelihood of violent confrontations.
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Posted by admin on May 22nd, 2009
By Brendan Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen; with files from The Montreal Gazette. May 22, 2009
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The arrest Wednesday of six First Nations protesters near Pembroke could be a part of what is shaping up to be a summer of discontent among Ontario natives frustrated over a growing list of outstanding issues. The protesters, led by Grant Tysick, chief of the Kinounchepirini Algonquin, were arrested in the early morning after a 34-hour blockade of a gravel quarry west of Pembroke. The blockade at Eastway Developments on Henan Road was broken up by Upper Ottawa Valley OPP officers and members of the OPP’s Emergency Response Team around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. The men were arrested without incident and there were no physical confrontations of any kind, police said.
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Posted by admin on May 22nd, 2009
Andrew MacLeod, 22 May 2009, TheTyee.ca
The Vancouver Sun’s lead reporter on the Olympics, Jeff Lee, has over the years written some stories unlikely to please the International Olympic Committee or local organizers. But the IOC must not have minded his recent “Feeling the Buzz” piece on preparations for the games in Vancouver and Whistler. They paid for it and published it. “Feeling the Buzz” appeared in the January, February, March issue of The Olympic Review, billed on the cover as the “official publication of the Olympic movement.” The masthead says the 84-page magazine is published by the International Olympic Committee. It includes a foreward by Jacques Rogge, IOC president.
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Posted by admin on May 21st, 2009
May 21, 2009 By BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS
The Canada Border Service Agency will be doing much more than stamping passports for 2010 Winter Olympics visitors. The November 2007 Pacific Region Olympics operations plan and funding request, obtained under Access to Information by the Work Less Party, shows the agency’s Olympics Intelligence Unit coordinating a wide-ranging program of enforcement to combat perceived threats involving organized crime, sex trade workers, human trafficking and terrorism.
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Posted by admin on May 20th, 2009
May Issue of No One Is Illegal Razorwire. Full issue here.
In preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, approximately 20 workers died, with as many as 1,000 injured, working on Olympic venues. Most of these were migrant workers. During the Beijing Olympics, approximately 3 million migrant and low-skill labourers were expelled from the city core. In the lead up to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver migrant workers are being similarly exploited.
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