"This is a farewell kiss, you dog!"
MONTREAL SHOE ACTION

In solidarity with Muntadar al-Zeidi
Bush out of Baghdad ... Canada out of Kandahar!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 at 1:00 pm
outside the US Consulate in Montreal
(1155 St-Alexandre, métro McGill)

Bring extra shoes and footwear to throw! Bring noisemakers!

By Guy Charron - Znet

11 December 2008 -- Held under conditions of the biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression, [last] Monday's Quebec election was marked by the lowest voter turnout in at least 80 years (57 percent) and the near annihilation of the right-wing populist Action-démocratique du Québec (ADQ)...The Liberals—who have held power since 2003, but were reduced to a minority government in an election 20 months ago—secured a parliamentary majority, but only barely.

by SAMIR SHAHEEN-HUSSAIN - Thursday, December 04, 2008

The story of a newborn baby whose birth documents were initially withheld by an obstetrician...exposes a lamentable, all-too-frequent reality. It represents the tip of a much more significant problem faced by people who do not have permanent residency status in Canada. Dr. Yvonne Vasilie from the Lakeshore Hospital withheld baby Marley’s birth documents because her parents...were not able to fully pay the fees for the obstetric care...

Recently, members of Indigenous communities in Canada have expressed outrage at racist comments made by Richard Pound, currently serving as Chancellor of McGill University, Canadian representative on the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and member of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Olympic Games. During an August 2008 interview with La Presse, Pound responded to criticism regarding this summer's Olympic presence in China by drawing the following comparison: "We must not forget that 400 years ago, Canada was a land of savages, with scarcely 10,000 inhabitants of European descent, while in China, we're talking about a 5,000-year-old civilization."

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - CBC

Wal-Mart is closing a tire-and-lube garage in Gatineau where workers won a major victory last August when a Quebec arbitrator imposed a collective agreement on the company...The precedent-setting contract was the first ever forced on the Arkansas-based retailer by an outside agency.

...[D]ozens of riot cops over-ran the families who were peacefully demonstrating. Riot cops surrounded the area, and launched tear gas canisters, one of which hit a child in the chest. Nine people, including an elder, a pregnant woman, and two minors, were arrested. Eight demonstrators remained locked down to concrete-filled barrels, but police used "pain compliance"...to force them to let go, and be arrested...The blockade has been violently dismantled, but the need to apply pressure to the government has become more urgent. Please take a few minutes to show your support.

Il y a deux mois, Fredy était assassiné de trois balles dans Montréal-Nord.

Il y a un an, Quilem était tué de six décharges de taser dans St-Michel.

PLUS JAMAIS!

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11 OCTOBRE 2008
GRANDE MANIFESTATION FAMILIALE
14h au parc Pilon (coin Henri-Bourassa et Pie-IX)
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by Stefan Christoff - August 28th, 2008

Street fires no longer burn in Montreal North, but the police shooting that killed 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva remains an open wound for community residents in the district. For Montréal-Nord Républik, a recently formed community group in the area, a new kind of fire has been ignited. Made up of a number of articulate youths who are angry about what's happening in their community, the Haitians, Latinos, Arabs and Quebecers that make up the group's core are working together to draw attention to social and economic marginalization experienced by their peers in Montreal North.

CBC News | Agreement 'incompatible' with company's way of doing business: spokesman

A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the world's largest retailer's history.

*Communiqué by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP)-Montreal*

The death of Freddy [Villaneuva] is part of a long history of repression, abuse and brutality by the Montreal police. What happened is unjustifiable. The police know that they committed an enormous error. They are trying to hide the facts...

Cars and garbage bags were set ablaze on several streets during the rioting. (CBC)

CBC News

Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme is calling for an end to street violence that erupted in a northern neighbourhood Sunday night, where rioters attacked authorities, torched cars and looted stores in retaliation for a weekend police standoff that killed a teenager.

By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!

During the lead up to Haiti’s 2004 coup, the Québec Association of International Cooperation Organizations (L’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale - AQOCI) supported the campaign to oust Aristide’s elected government...Then, after the regime change, this coalition of several dozen large aid agencies not only ignored the newly-installed regime’s human rights abuses, it played a key role in quashing an effort by Montréal’s anti-war coalition (the Collectif Échec à la guerre) to expose Canadian complicity in the coup.

On June 14th, 2008 two Akwesasne grandmothers were stopped and arrested at the U.S.-Canada border. Located between Ontario, Quebec, and New York State, the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne is torn between borders.

Support Urgently Needed for Algonquins of Barriere Lake

Today a group of Algonquin youth and supporters entered MP Lawrence
Canon's office to demand a meeting with him. They are refusing to
leave until this happens. Anyone able to come to the Buckingham
constituency office to lend support is invited to attend.
They've been told they will be arrested unless they leave.

Arrest update in comment.

Quebec: 400 Years of Militarism and Colonialism: Nothing to Celebrate