Canada

Victory! Saskatchewan To Remain Nuclear Waste Free

April 20, 2015 Sandra Cuffe, www.intercontinentalcry.com Educate! Canada, Environment, indigenous, Land Rights, Nuclear Energy

Residents of northern Saskatchewan are celebrating an important victory this month after a four-year, hard-fought campaign to keep the province free of nuclear waste. On March 3, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announcedthat Creighton was no longer a contender in the organization’s siting process. It was the last of three Saskatchewan communities in the running to host a deep geological repository for the long term storage of spent fuel bundles from Canada’s nuclear reactors in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick. “This announcement is the culmination of four years of research, sacrifice, networking and hard work by a group of dedicated people with one goal: to keep nuclear waste out of Saskatchewan,” said Candyce Paul, a founding member of the Committee for Future Generations.

Tuition Hikes, Nova Scotia Students Occupy Finance Minister’s Office

April 16, 2015 Evan Webster, www.thechronicleherald.ca Resist! Canada, Student Activism, Student Debt, Tuition

A group of disgruntled Halifax university students brought their issues with the new provincial budget right to Finance Minister Diana Whalen’s doorstep. Coming from Dalhousie and St. Mary’s universities, as well as the University of King’s College and NSCAD University, the group of about 15 students held a study-in on Monday at Whalen’s constituency office on Lacewood Drive. “We’re here because this government has proposed the most radical changes to tuition policy in our lifetime, the total deregulation of fees,” said John Hutton, 25, a Dal economics and international development student. “Nova Scotia’s students already graduate, on average, $35,000 in debt. This budget will only make what’s already a crisis worse.”

Quebec City Climate-Change March Draws 25,000

April 12, 2015 Staff, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Climate Change

A climate-change march drew about 25,000 people to the streets of Quebec City on Saturday, as protesters try to encourage premiers to take a tougher stance on climate and pipeline regulations. The march was organized by Act On Climate — a coalition of groups including environmental groups, unions, students and aboriginal groups. It's in preparation for a premiers' summit on climate change which will take place on Tuesday, April 14. The focus is a greener strategy for Canada's provinces and territories. About 100 buses were driven to the rally with many passengers from different parts of Quebec. Once there, they marched for about three kilometres to the National Assembly. Protesters wore red and arranged themselves so that from the sky it looked like a bursting thermometer.

Montreal Police Disperse Hundreds Of Protesters W/ Tear Gas

April 11, 2015 RT, www.rt.com Resist! Canada, Education, Montreal, Police, Student Activism

Riot police in Montreal used tear gas and flash-bangs to disperse hundreds of students rallying in the city’s downtown in protest against the Quebec government’s austerity measures. Following dispersal, barricades have been put up at Montreal’s Carré Phillips and protesters are regrouping, according to various reports on the ground. The march began downtown as demonstrators gathered at Dominion Square on Friday night. The rally was declared illegal at 9:15 p.m. local time. Within the next 30 minutes, the riot squad was dispersing students from St. Catherine Street. Tear gas and stun grenades were repeatedly used, prompting students to scatter and run away.

Protesters Stage Night Occupation Of UQAM Building

April 9, 2015 Rene Bruemmer and Monique Muise, www.montrealgazette.com Resist! Canada, Quebec, Student Activism

More than 250 students at the Université du Québec à Montréal occupied a building Wednesday night where, during the afternoon, police arrested 21 protesters. Shortly before midnight, 150 remaining students said they intended to stay the night. Police had massed discreetly outside, but said they had no intention of intervening. School administrators called for police aid twice during the day to dispel demonstrators who were attempting to disrupt classes. On their second visit of the day, police arrested 11 women and 10 men at around 3 p.m. During a tense standoff between students and police officers in the basement of the J.-A.-DeSève building on Ste-Catherine St. near St-Denis St., professors stepped in between lines of police officers and students, and managed to defuse the situation.

Orchestra Cuts Top Pianist Due To Kiev Views

April 7, 2015 Valentina Lisitsa, www.PopularResistance.or Resist! Canada, Ukraine

The worst thing that can happen to any country is fratricide war, people seeing each other, their neighbors as enemies to be eliminated. This is what has befallen my beautiful Ukraine. My heart was bleeding. You all saw on TV screens all over the world a magnificent revolution, the people of Ukraine raising in fury against their corrupt rulers, for a better life. I was so proud of my people! But the ruling class doesn't let go easily. They managed to cunningly channel away the anger, to direct it to other, often imaginable, enemies - and worse, to turn people upon themselves. Year later, we have the same rich people remaining in power, misery and poverty everywhere, dozens of thousands killed, over a million of refugees. So, I took to Twitter under a name "NedoUkraïnka" - a word roughly meaning "Sub-Ukrainian", a stab at Ukrainian Prime Minister who called Russian-speaking Southern and Eastern Ukrainians "SUBHUMANS"!

Quebec’s Long Struggle To Build A Democratic Left Party

April 6, 2015 Pierre Beaudet and Richard Fidler, www.rabble.ca Organize! Canada, Left, Party Politics, Quebec, Social Change

In 1971, I worked at the Montréal Central Council of the CSN, where my mentor Michel Chartrand was president. Maligned as an anarcho-syndicalist, he embodied the left opposition in the CSN. He enraged the right wing in the central, which split in 1972 to found the Centrale des syndicats démocratiques (CSD). Chartrand was even beaten up by some thugs during a meeting of the CSN Confederal Council. His relations with Pepin were not cordial. Pepin never indicated any support for him during his lengthy imprisonment under the War Measures Act. Chartrand criticized him above all for not really believing in the "second front." Notwithstanding his outspoken personality in public, the private Chartrand was a humanist, an assiduous reader with a great love of art and a fine taste for good food and wine.

Four Reasons Québec Is On The Streets Fighting Austerity

April 1, 2015 David Gray-Donald, www.rabble.ca Resist! Austerity, Canada, IMF, Quebec

Night demonstrations -- a fixture in the 2012 Quebec student movement -- were held on Tuesday in Montreal and Quebec City, and again on Friday in Montreal, with thousands filling the streets as well as hundreds of armoured police. The mobilization against austerity measures was met by strong police reaction. On Thursday of the same week, the Quebec Liberal government tabled a budget "balanced" by large cuts to education, health care and other social services spending. A Popular Protest Against Austerity and the Petro-Economy was held on Saturday March 21 with between 5,000 - 10,000 taking to the streets of Montreal. The event was repeated with another large turnout on Saturday, March 28, with more protests held in Montreal and around Quebec.

Anti-Islam Group Cancels March As Anti-Racists Convene

March 30, 2015 Tracy Lindeman, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Faith, Immigration, Racism

A march organized by sympathizers of a Europe-based anti-Islam, anti-immigration group called PEGIDA was cancelled on Saturday after hundreds of people showed up to protest against PEGIDA itself. The self-described leader of the relatively new PEGIDA Québec chapter, Jean-François Asgard, told Radio-Canada that "Islam needs to reform itself or leave the West." Jaggi Singh of the No One Is Illegal activist group helped organize Saturday's counter-protest. Hundreds of people toting signs denouncing racism and Islamophobia arrived 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start time of the PEGIDA march, set to take place in a largely Muslim community in Montreal called Little Maghreb.

[VIDEO] Roads Blockaded To Highlight Missing & Murdered Women

March 27, 2015 Winnipeg Alternative Media, www.youtube.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Women

"There is no democracy and we the people have an obligation to demand justice for all. The current status quo in so called Canada serves only the elite few while the majority of Canadians are financial slaves to the system. Politicians do not represent the people, nor have they ever. Indigenous communities know this all too well and have been actively resisting subjugation since contact with the first colonizers who illegally imposed their jurisdiction through covert biological warfare and the ongoing genocide implemented with the residential school system." Despite the blockade happening far east in the city nearly out of city limits on a bitter cold and windy day, it had a profound effect on the city. It hit all of the news stations, was all over the radio and there were calls coming in from people asking what was happening on Portage. There weren't huge numbers, but it had its own impact.

Documents Show Canadian Spying On Enviros Went Too Far

March 27, 2015 Jim Bronskill, www.huffingtonpost.ca Educate! Canada, Environment, Surveillance, Terror

A civil liberties group says newly disclosed Canadian Security Intelligence Service records on protest surveillance bolster its formal complaint that spies went too far in eyeing environmental activists. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has asked the Security Intelligence Review Committee to consider the documents — which reveal CSIS deliberations on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline — as it investigates the spying allegations. The association filed a complaint with the review committee in February 2014 after media reports suggested that CSIS and other government agencies consider opposition to the petroleum industry a threat to national security.

Canada’s Spy Agency Reviews Millions Of Vids & Docs Daily

March 24, 2015 Amber Hildebrandt, Michael Pereira and Dave Seglins, www.cbc.ca Educate! Canada, Journalism, Snowden, Surveillance

Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed "Levitation" are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News. Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says. "Every single thing that you do — in this case uploading/downloading files to these sites — that act is being archived, collected and analyzed," says Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto-based internet security think-tank Citizen Lab, who reviewed the document.

Tar Sands Campaigners Are Canada’s New ‘Terrorists’

March 21, 2015 Pete Dolack, www.theecologist.org Resist! Canada, Oil & Gas, Terrorism

Canada's Harper régime has invented the new crime of being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism. Evidently believing it is in danger of losing the fight against pipeline projects intended to speed up Alberta tar sands production, its response is to place environmentalists under surveillance. A secret report prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country's national police agency, claims that public activism against the problems caused by oil and gas extraction is a growing and violent threat to Canada's national security. The report goes so far as to challenge the very idea that human activity is causing global warming or that global warming is even a problem.

N.B. Premier Says Gov’t Will Improve First Nations Consultations

March 21, 2015 The Canadian Press, www.atlantic.ctvnews.ca Educate! Canada, First Nations

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant says changes are being made to improve government consultation with First Nations groups. He says at least one person in the leadership of each government department will be trained on the duty to consult. Gallant says too often across Canada, governments and other groups wait too long before beginning consultations. He says too many people think consultation is only needed on energy projects, adding that even the construction of a school could impact a waterway and First Nations may have concerns that their rights are being infringed.

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