...[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

CBC

May join Vancouver in putting limits on billboard ads to restrict 'visual pollution'

Historic Quebec City hopes to take down a modern roadside decoration – the ubiquitous billboard.

The regime change has left the Barriere Lake reservation in a political crisis, amid allegations that the government's actions are its way of canning a co-management agreement Barriere Lake signed with Canada and Quebec nearly twenty years ago.

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.

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) have just completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories.

With this letter I would like to officially withdraw as a member of the jury for the 2008 Prize of the Alex and Ruth Dworkin Foundation for the Promotion of Tolerance through Cinema[... A]fter examining in more detail the political and financial basis of the prize I must refuse to have my name associated with it. Behind this noble sounding “award for tolerance” hides a story of intolerance, division and discrimination.