By Rafeef Ziadah - Znet

As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me...However, following the publication of a recent report by [a] prominent Israeli think-tank [which called Toronto a “hub of Israel delegitimization”]...I felt some pride for my adopted city...The report confirmed to those of us involved in the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement that our work was not in vain.

The banking crisis was not cataclysmic; the financing bubbles that caused it had been developing for many years. So where were the banks’ auditors? Why were bank financial statements showing high levels of profitability right up to the point of the financial collapse? What went wrong with the audit of these banks? Could it have had something to do with excessive standardization? Less than a decade after Arthur Andersen, has the CA profession learnt anything?

While the anti-Olympics convergence and the militant actions in Vancouver have been celebrated as successes by local anarchist organizers and their comrades around the world, two anarchists from Ontario's 'Common Cause' have joined the corporate media, police, and IOC in publicly condemning the black bloc.

It has come to our attention that the Canada Border Services Agency invaded a shelter for women - on February 27, looking to track down Jane, a single mom and survivor of violence from Ghana...“It’s so scary...I thought the shelter was supposed to be a safe space for me and my baby. I’m scared not just for myself, but for non-status women in shelters everywhere who are facing the same fear...”

Infoshop News - Tuesday, March 02 2010

At this very moment, the federal Conservative Party, their various corporate partners, and their provincial proxy-parties are pushing hard for a major expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)...[T]his issue is about more than privatization. It’s about an ideology of “Law and Order” driven by fear, racism, and moral panic. It’s about the extent to which the logic of prison is being extended into society generally, through increased surveillance and heavier-handed policing in the name of “public safety.”

By Shourideh cherie Molavi - March 02, 2010

Ontario [politicians] are not interested in a political discussion. Realizing that public dissent and discourse in the face of continued infringements of human dignity and blatant violations of international law cannot be muted easily, the argument is now that there is no issue with debating the Israel-Palestine conflict, instead, “the problem is the name Israeli Apartheid Week.” The concern lies with the mere use of the word apartheid to describe the Israeli system of occupation, expulsion, exclusion and exploitation.

By Hanna Kawas, Canada Palestine Association - February 27, 2010

I am a Palestinian Christian who survived Israel’s “Original Sin” that uprooted two thirds of the Palestinian people and wiped out over four hundred Palestinian towns and villages...I am also one of the six million refugees who have been waiting for the past sixty-one years to return to their homes, lands and homeland. I am hurt and outraged at the morally bankrupt resolution of your Legislature. It adds insult to injury.

Peaceculture.org

On Saturday December 27th, in Kitchener, Ontario, over 150 people headed the call out for a public mobilization against the 2010 Olympic torch and acted in solidarity with those on the west coast of this country who are being negatively impacted because of the upcoming winter games.