CBC
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Sun, 25 Jul 2004

HALIFAX - Former residents of a black community in Halifax that was razed nearly 40 years ago are still seeking compensation.

Jeff Lee ;
Vancouver Sun
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Saturday, July 24, 2004

For the second time in less than two months, Vancouver police are investigating the death in custody of a man shot by a Taser gun.

organicconsumers.org
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Reuters ; July 15, 2004

Canada Sacks Three Whistle-Blowing Scientists

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian government fired three
high-profile scientists to punish them for publicly challenging federal
decisions on
veterinary drugs, the scientists' union said on Thursday.

Dissent! is a network of groups and individuals taking action against the G8 in Britain in 2005.

Our struggle against the globalisation of exploitation and capital means that we are in solidarity with the struggles of all the common people around the globe. Now the focus of the global bosses is the Olympic Games in Athens (Greece).

By Macdonald Stainsby

Dan Freeman-Maloy was summarily and without due process suspended from all campus activity at York University in Toronto last April. The nearly graduated, high-marks-earning  22 year old was charged with using a megaphone on campus (many other students were doing this, including Zionist-supporters). When Freeman-Maloy (a Jewish student who opposes Zionism and supports Palestinian rights) asked York University President Lorna Marsden (a Zionist and converted-through-marriage Jewish woman) for an appeal, the decision was said to be final-- interpreting that she could determine the suspension unilaterally and that no appeal could be granted. "Unauthorized sound amplification device", indeed! Well, Freeman-Maloy wasn't about to let his name become one of irony. He took the university to court.

more Diebold posters.

The Canadian government is using the (murder of Canadian citizen Zahra) Kazemi....(in Iran) as a convenient cover for its diplomatic game with the United States and Israel, whose now openly stated priority is to isolate the government of Iran before a mandated "regime change" in 2005 or 2006. Canada's unstated priority is to maintain access to US markets for our exports (2).  Canada is playing its part once again, by giving the whole US operation a humanitarian gloss.

July 23, 2004 ;

By GARY LEUPP

One day the headlined fact of significance was that the 9-11 Commission found no Iraq/al-Qaeda link. This was a blow to the Bush administration, especially its neoconservative contingent, which must realize that it has diminishing credibility, even as it struggles to stay in power and doggedly implement its Southwest Asia regime change agenda. The next day the headlined fact was that the same commission found that eight of the 9-11 hijackers had passed between Afghanistan and Iran between October 2000 and February 2001, with Iranian border guards' knowledge, and official orders to those guards not to stamp their passports...

Teamsters in San Diego, California, who produce and distribute Coca-Cola products for Coca-Cola Enterprises went on strike today to protest the company's demand to dramatically increase workers' health care costs.

By David Harrison ; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

Thousands of stray dogs will be poisoned ahead of next month's

Olympic Games in Athens despite a campaign by the RSPCA to prevent

their slaughter.

The animal welfare charity says that the strays will be killed

because the Greek authorities fear that the sight of packs of dogs

roaming the streets will damage their efforts to use the Games to

show the world that their country is modern and civilised.

Disdain toward females and gay people is often found in the same psychological bundle as enthusiasm for war. And (sexist and homophobic) epithets have long been part of pro-war verbiage, whether in private conversations or in media.

"Although things are tense, we will not back down, and will not be pushed

into submission through fear..... Now is the time for all of us to fight their fear with our greatest weapon, our solidarity."

newscientist.com

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19:00 21 July 04

More US military silliness...

Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it.

Many workers have been killed - many more than the official death toll of 14, a Greek union representative said.

lewrockwell.com
; by Jim Lobe

A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be "global terrorism."