FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALL NEWS EDITORS RALLY TO DEMAND INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF KURDISH REFUGEE HOSSEIN BLUJANI WHAT: Rally to Demand Investigation into Death of Kurdish Refugee Hossein Blujani WHEN: Tuesday February 12, 2013 at 9:30 am WHERE: Federal Court, 701 West Georgia, corner Granville WHO: Iranian Federation of Refugees, Lawyer Peter Edelmann, Kinbrace Housing [...]

Rally Demanding Justice in the Death of Kurdish-Iranian Refugee Tuesday February 12th 9:30 Am 701 West Georgia Street With much sadness and rage, we inform our community that we have lost a vibrant, kind and thoughtful Kurdish and Iranian young refugee. The body of 31-year-old Hossein Blujani was found on December 1, 2012 on the [...]

Monday November 26, 2012. Doors at 6:00 pm Grandview Calvary Baptist Church 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive) Dinner and Childcare provided. By donation (no one turned away). FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/375379869211981/ (espanol abajo) Accessibility info: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s kitchen’s entrance is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and [...]

John Cotter, The Canadian Press Jun 6, 2012 – 5:38 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 6, 2012 5:40 PM ET EDMONTON — The federal government has set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta and one of its main jobs will be to help protect the energy industry from attacks by extremists. The integrated national [...]

The Canadian Press, Posted: Feb 7, 2012 8:49 AM ET The federal government is defending itself after more information has come to light about its directions to Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake. The order represents a reversal of policy [...]

By Robert Hiltz, Postmedia News, 6 Sep. 2011
OTTAWA — Controversial clauses expanding the powers of police to combat terrorism are going to be reintroduced by the new Conservative majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview with CBC. Harper said for the first time since the Tories took control of the House of Commons [...]

BY CHRIS COBB, Ottawa Citizen, Jun. 7 2011
OTTAWA — Former University of Ottawa professor Hassan Diab was led by police from an Ottawa courtroom Monday to the sound of loud applause and hugs and handshakes from his supporters. It was the end of a short but emotional hearing that saw the alleged terrorist committed [...]

Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star, Jun. 6 2011
Dalvik Kujjo spent the summer of 1984 handing out flyers promoting a budding anti-government rebel group in Sudan and guiding recruits to village meetings. The Sudanese refugee said he supported the African Christians’ fight against the Arab Islamist government in Khartoum, and that was the extent of his involvement [...]

Isabel Teotonio, Toronto Star, May 27 2011

A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant. The recently filed $10-million lawsuit comes after child pornography charges against Ayad Mejid, 48, were dropped when [...]

Fri May 20 2011, By Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter, Toronto Star
A well-travelled British human rights activist and former Guantanamo Bay detainee said he was barred from boarding a direct flight from London to Toronto Friday because of concerns the aircraft could be diverted to the U.S. Moazzam Begg was to speak at a Saturday [...]

By TIM NAUMETZ Published May 18, 2011 8:42 PM, Hill Times
PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Cabinet overhaul reveals he intends to “move and move quickly” with steep public service cuts and plans to extend his notorious personal control over government affairs into a surprising arena—the oversight of national security and intelligence gathering by a range [...]

By Neil Macdonald, CBC News, May 18, 2011 5:07 AM ET
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada’s principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits to U.S. authorities the names and personal details of Canadian citizens who are suspected of, but not charged with, what the agency refers to as “terrorist-related activity.” The criteria used to turn over the [...]

“We are the wrong people of / the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what / in the hell is everybody being reasonable about… but let this be unmistakable this poem is not consent / I do not consent” – Poet June Jordan
No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is an anti-colonial migrant [...]

[ May 30, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Monday May 30. Starts at 7 pm. Cost: $20 per ticket at GCBC Lower Hall (Grandview Calvary Baptist Church) 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive).

Accessibility info: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church's kitchen's entrance is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and lower hall. The women's washroom has a stall that [...]

By Adrian Nieoczym, Kelowna.com, Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The police took a special interest in an anti-Olympics speaking tour’s Kelowna stop last night. And while the cops say they are just doing what’s necessary to keep the Olympics safe, critics contend their actions are intimidating and an attack on the right to dissent. About 15 minutes [...]