Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - CBC News

Rita MacNeil was as surprised as anyone to learn she was the target of RCMP undercover agents investigating the women's movement nearly 40 years ago...She represented the Toronto Women's Caucus at a March 1972 meeting of women's groups in Winnipeg, and, as an RCMP memo states, was the "one who composes and sings women's lib songs."

ST. JOHNS, Quebec – More than 100 Innu families who are now occupying and using their aboriginal homeland in Newfoundland Labrador recently received eviction notices from the provincial government of Newfoundland Labrador. The Removal Notices direct Innu families to "remove all structures from Crown land and restore the site to its original conditions within 60 days of notice." Failure to do so will result in the Crown Lands Division demolishing their homes and charging the costs of demolition to the Innu families.

I’ve been very quiet about the political circus that prevails here in the good ole USA. Then I heard American talk show host Rush Limbaug’s blatantly racial and gender commentary alluding to the notion a woman or African American could not possibly be presidential material. I found it patently offensive, racist and bigoted. Though I’m no fan of any of the candidates I found Slimeball’s actions during the Democratic Primaries revolting and an affront to the whole democratic process. It’s my right not to like candidates and it’s my right not to vote for them but it’s no ones right to “rig” an election.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding them continues to wreak havoc on Indigenous people, poor people, and the Earth. In the spirit of resistance to colonialism, with the 2010 Olympics as a main target, Kanahus Pellkey of the Native Youth Movement and Native youth Dustin Johnson are touring throughout the Great Lakes and East Coast in January and February 2008.

CTV News

The woman behind the landmark lawsuit for residential school survivors died Thursday in what police are calling a "suspicious death."

The successful suit could be more than $5 billion and is believed to be the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history.

Malalai Joya, women's rights activist and expelled Afghan parliamentarian spoke in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Thursday. She filled an auditorium and within it, many hearts who were moved by her passion.

Hundreds of Maritimers descended on Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 15th, 2007 to express their collective outrage with the plans being hatched by the attendees of Atlantica 2007: Charting the Course, a conference designed to meld the workers and resources of the eastern region into a cross-border puppet of corporate powerhouses.

I’m writing this account to try and capture some of the beauty I experienced in the streets of Halifax that corporate and indymedia can’t seem to articulate. Corporate press is calling us violent criminals while indymedia is focusing on the arrests and not so shocking brutality of the police. Neither show the brief period where people took their lives back and stepped out of the accepted norms of dissent.

The Violence of the Letter: Land Claims and Continuing Colonial Conquest in Canada

The recent struggle over lands in southern Ontario near Caledonia points to the continuing problem with land-claims policy in Canada. This sentence could be used to begin an article every few years, only the place names change: the recent struggle at Grassy Narrows, the recent struggle at Stoney Point, the recent struggle at Oka. While there is a sense in which the current land-claims policy goes back to the beginnings of colonialism in Canada, the recent permutations are worth attention. Any understanding of contemporary conflicts needs to be informed by a strong and detailed sense of what has happened historically, as well as what is happening today.

Top court upholds aboriginal logging rights on Crown land

Native people have the right to log Crown lands for personal use, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a unanimous judgment on two New Brunswick cases.

The high court judges decided three New Brunswick men who took Crown wood to make furniture, build a home and burn as firewood were exercising their treaty rights, not stealing. The ru

Accusations of "environmental racism" take centre stage during fight against new landfill development

by Hillary Bain Lindsay

Newfoundland losing lakes to mining waste

by Tracy Glynn

The reclassification of the two lakes in Newfoundland marks the first time that Schedule 2 was used to allow a known fish-bearing water body to be used as a tailings impoundment area.

Amnesty International is questioning the repeated use of a Taser gun on a 17-year-old boy by police officers at a house party in Hampton, N.B...Amnesty spokesman Andy Buxton says nobody should be hit with the weapon, which can deliver up to 50,000 volts of electricity in one shot, especially vulnerable groups like children, teenagers and the elderly.

MAY 27: March for Immigrant Rights! STATUS FOR ALL! (Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Peterborough, Fredericton...)

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Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, and for a full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, meaning STATUS FOR ALL!

Atlantic Canadians & residents of Northeastern States mobilize against "Business Without Boundaries" Conference - June 8-10, Saint John, New Brunswick...Atlantica (would be) a unified region consisting of Canada’s Atlantic Provinces and the northeastern United States in which provincial + state legislation would eliminate/stagnate the minimum wage, restrict the ability of workers to organize and drastically reduce public spending on social programs.