By Macdonald Stainsby - July 14, 2008

For much of the last year, many of the anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian forces across Canada have started to work towards converging many of the bigger issues to take place in 2010 into a larger whole...Some of the issues included are: [t]he 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver/[Whistler], the next round of Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP] negotiations to be held within Canada -- and the G8 Summit to be held in Ontario all during that same year. On many different levels these issues interlink and have an inherent connection with one another...Here I wish to make the case that what belongs as a major thread through all of these discussions is often absent among those of us trying to make these larger connections coherent in our organizing.

- please forward widely. EMERGENCY ACTION -

CONFRONT THEIR ECONOMIC REGION:
Demonstration Opposing the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)

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Sunday July 20th 5:00 pm
Westin Bayshore Hotel
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver
(two blocks east of Denman and one block north of West Georgia)
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Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press

TORONTO - There was no reason to "bring down the hammer" on seven aboriginals who were incarcerated and fined after protesting against mining projects in their communities, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Monday in calling the six-month sentences "too harsh."

Alberta Heavy Crude to be World’s cleanest production

By Mark Smyth Monday, June 30, 2008

For those who were not aware of the joint statement from the 76TH ANNUAL U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS in Miami this past week, to boycott Canadian gasoline made from oil sands heavy crude, pay very close attention.

By Eduard Gismatullin and Marianne Stigset

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- StatoilHydro ASA, Norway's largest oil producer, and Nexen Inc. called for "clarity" in Canadian regulation governing Alberta's tar-sand projects before they proceed with investment in refineries.

by Heather Mallick - Wednesday July 2, 2008

Come to Canada! But only if you've got a job.

Stories of Canada looking to poach British citizens are wildly exaggerated. We're only interested in professionals who can help us dig up oil.

By Dawn Paley - July, 02 2008

Will Canadians stand by and allow the Harper government to ratify a Free Trade agreement with Colombia, where 24 unionists were killed and four disappeared in the first 4 months of 2008, so that Canadian mining and oil companies can make more money? Or will Canadians stand up in defence of life and speak out against these agreements, negotiated with one of the most repressive regimes in the hemisphere and in their names but without their consent?

Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service

EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday.

Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site.

Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites: Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

by Terry Milewski | CBC

By Macdonald Stainsby

The giant corporations that are determined to exploit the Alberta tar sands face a major problem — a serious shortage of local labour to do the actual work. So the Canadian and Albertan governments have a plan, ideal in their eyes, to solve the crunch.

Resistencia a la minería aurífera canadiense en México

Delegación Mexican visitara Canada del 16 al 17 de Junio del 2008 para denunciar la destrucción y violación a lost derechos humanos que esta generado la compa; ia minera Metallica Resources Inc. en Cerro de San Pedro, SLP, Mexico.

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Dos acontecimientos: 1) Conferencia pública; 2) protesta pública

In attempts to skirt constitutionally required consultations with First Nations, mining corporations are seeking access to territory by dragging the process through the Ontario legal system long enough to bankrupt cash-strapped First Nations.

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation - May 15, 2008

Bob Lovelace is now entering his fourth month in jail while the [Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug] Six are about to begin their third month of incarceration. They are prisoners of conscience, jailed by the government of Ontario to send a message that the interests of the mining industry will trump Aboriginal rights and the environment of Ontario.

Today over 27 million children and adults are in slavery or bonded labor around the world—more than any other period in human history. As one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world, slavery remains largely hidden from the public eye and thrives on the rising global demand for inexpensive, unskilled labor and commercial sex.

Armed with nothing more than absolute faith, a robe and slippers Buddhist Monks have made their position known about the Constitutional Referendum. The stakes are very high. Knowing and surviving the consequences of September’s protest monks stand defiant and have gone on the offensive regardless of the risks.