Police deployed tear gas to dispel protesters, arresting dozens and injuring several people in Taiyun City, in China's Shanxi Province. The violent...

Interview with Anna Willats of Gender Justice for All about the upcoming G20 in Toronto , recorded at the Toronto Community Mobilization Network (TCMN)

An Egyptian security official declared the blockade of Gaza a failure Monday and said his country will keep its border with the Palestinian territo...

June 8: Free Community Meal with the RNC 8 Defense Committee<br />
June 9: Court Hearing<br />
June 22-26: US Social Forum, Detroit, MI<br />
June 8: Free Community ...

By Jacqueline Kennelly - June 7, 2010

The Winter Olympics have come and gone, and Vancouver is left to take stock of the lasting effects of having hosted this global mega-sporting event. As decisions are made about the fate of social housing in the Athlete’s Village, and as the last of the Red Tents are taken down, Vancouver might consider what the Olympics has meant for one of its most marginalized populations—homeless and street-involved youth.

By Amanda Wilson - May 30, 2010

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The 14th World Economic Summit in Toronto was held in a very different era. In 1988, the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain still divided the world into east and west; South Africa was still under the formal rule of apartheid; and Osama Bin Laden was seen by the US as a freedom fighter. However, similarities to the upcoming summit in Toronto might make this coming June feel like a recurring bad dream.

-Water shortages ‘could plunge the world into conflict’
-Government review to examine threat of world resources shortage
-Phosphorus and the Oxygen Connection

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