Canada

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.

Grassy Narrows First Nation Holds Logging Protest In Kenora

March 18, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Aboriginal Rights, Canada, Environment

Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation will be in Kenora, Ont., today to take part in a protest rally being held to show the First Nations continuing opposition to logging in the Whiskey Jack Forest. Grassy Narrows spokesperson Randy Fobister said the protest will be will be a peaceful one. “It's pretty much a rally,” he said. “We are going to have vehicles and, in each location we are going to walk on the side of the road, back and forth. And there is going to be a drum," Fobister said. "There is going to be some people speaking. And I will speak as well too.” About 50 people are expected at the rally. Fobister said they'll be making stops at both Kenora Forest Products and the local Ministry of Natural Resources office. Despite opposition from Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ontario's 10-year Forest Management Plan for the area includes clear cutting on the community's traditional territory.

Quebec Protest Aims To Pressure Leaders On Climate Change

March 18, 2015 CTV Montreal, www.montreal.ctvnews.ca Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Quebec

Representatives from environmental organizations, unions, student groups and First Nations Sunday announced plans for a rally to demand action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The groups say Canada and other countries need to respect targets for cutting emissions, and they say projects such the ones going on in Alberta’s tar sands are incompatible with meeting those targets. They want the governments of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick to oppose the expansion of the tar sands and the transport of oil by pipeline and by train. Dubbed the “Act on climate” march, the groups want the march, set for April 11 in Quebec City, will remind leaders that Canadians want them to do more to protect the planet.

Quebec Students Plan One Of Largest Strikes In Canada History

March 16, 2015 Alan Jones, www.vice.com Resist! Canada, Quebec, Student Activism

Three years after staging the largest student protest in Canadian history, students in Quebec are gearing up for another one. Various media outlets may have threatened the same thing last year, and the year before, but the protests planned for the upcoming weeks are larger in scale than anything the province has seen since 2012. As of writing, 24 student organizations in Quebec, representing over 30,000 students at six university and CÉGEP campuses, have voted to strike as part of a protest against the Liberal government's austerity measures. Student organizations representing another 110,000 students are scheduled to carry out strike votes.

Canada Orders Fed Agencies To Keep Track Of All Protests

March 16, 2015 David Pugliese, www.ottawacitizen.com Resist! Aboriginal Rights, Activism, Canada, Surveillance

The federal government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country, a move that collects information even on the most mundane of protests by Canadians. The email requesting such information was sent out Tuesday by the Government Operations Centre in Ottawa to all federal departments. “The Government Operations Centre is seeking your assistance in compiling a comprehensive listing of all known demonstrations which will occur either in your geographical area or that may touch on your mandate,” noted the email, leaked to the Citizen.

Annual Montreal March Against Police Brutality Declared Illegal

March 16, 2015 The Canadian Press, www.ctvnews.ca Resist! Canada, Law, police brutality

A Montreal march against perceived police brutality ended on Sunday with one arrest and nearly 100 tickets being given out. The march was declared illegal as soon as it began because organizers had not informed authorities of their route. As protesters split into different directions, police quickly surrounded a group of about 30 people, who were put onto waiting city buses without incident. Most of the tickets were handed out for highway code violations because of protesters blocking the street. Two were stopped for covering their faces. Two other marches did not result in arrests or tickets. Eight police cars were vandalized during the demonstration.

Day Of Action Against C-51 Across Canada

March 15, 2015 The Canadian Press, www.macleans.ca Resist! Canada, Mass Surveillance, Police, Privacy

MONTREAL — Thousands of Canadians came together to loudly denounce the Conservative government’s proposed anti-terror legislation in rallies held across the country on Saturday. In a park in Montreal’s north end, a few dozen of the hundreds of demonstrators taped their mouths shut in protest of the bill, which opponents say would allow the government to stifle protest and dissent. As they marched toward the office of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, many of the large contingent waved signs bearing messages such as “Stop Harper,” and “Activism is not a crime.” The Conservative government introduced the legislation, known as Bill C-51, in January. The wide-ranging bill would give police much broader powers and allow them to detain terror suspects and give new powers to Canada’s spy agency.

Canadian Activists Call For Boycott Of Air Canada

March 11, 2015 Marion Kawas, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! Canada, Capitalism, Israel

Its not just the Canadian government that is complicit with Israeli apartheid . . . In recent months, Canadian government officials have been working overtime to further cement their outrageous and biased support of Israeli policies. One example is the January 18, 2015 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries that committed to develop “a coordinated, public diplomacy initiative both bilaterally and in international and multilateral fora to oppose boycotts of Israel, its institutions, and its people within three to six months”. This was quickly followed with the Canadian ‘Public Safety’ minister stating at the United Nations that “Canada has taken a zero-tolerance approach to anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination including rhetoric towards Israel, and attempts to delegitimize Israel such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement”.

Oil Train Derails, Leaks Into Waterway

March 10, 2015 Jeffrey Hodgson, www.dispatch.com Educate! Canada, Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Train

A Canadian National Railway train carrying crude oil derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama, with multiple cars on fire and some oil leaking into a waterway, the company said yesterday. There were no injuries reported from the derailment, Canadian National’s second in the region in just three days and third in less than a month. The railway said a bridge over a waterway had been damaged and five tank cars had landed in the water, with some on fire. “CN emergency responders are acquiring booms to contain crude-oil movements in the waterway,” CN spokesman Mark Hallman said in an email, adding that initial indications were that the waterway does not supply drinking water to Gogama.

Can Activists Turn The Bank Of Canada Back Into A Public Bank?

March 7, 2015 Matt Stannard, www.occupy.com Create! Canada, Debt, Public Banking

The Bank of Canada was nationalized in 1938 and is wholly owned by the Canadian people. Between 1938 and 1974, the federal government borrowed at low or no interest from the bank. But all that changed. In 1974, Canada turned to monetarism, a paradigm holding that expansion of the money supply is inflationary, and a partner to neoliberal economic policy. This shift compelled the federal government to borrow from private foreign banks to finance Canada’s pension plan and a whole host of public projects from transportation to health care, airports, seaports and more. In the 40 years since, Canada’s privatization of finance has led to an unprecedented level of public debt. It has commodified and effectively privatized the “human capital expenditures” originally articulated in the Bank of Canada’s charter.

Kahnawake Sends ‘Open Letter’ To Prime Minister

March 7, 2015 APTN, www.aptn.ca Educate! Aboriginal Rights, Canada, Terrorism

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is the latest to voice its concern over the federal government’s anti-terror legislation bill C-51. According to the letter sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday, the council, like many First Nations across the country, is concerned about the effect the bill could have on activists. “While it is clear that the Canadian people and their government are concerned with both real and potential incidents of terrorism in Canada, there is also a great fear that the law may be used to brand legitimate protests by First Nations as acts of terrorism,” said Chief Lloyd Phillips. The proposed anti-terror bill will give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service police-like powers.

What’s Happening To Canada? Open Letter From Ralph Nader

March 7, 2015 Ralph Nader, www.rabble.ca Educate! Canada, Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

You are quoted as saying that "jihadi terrorism is one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever faced" as a predicate for your gross over-reaction that "violent jihadism seeks to destroy" Canadian "rights." Really? Pray tell, which rights rooted in Canadian law are "jihadis" fighting in the Middle East to obliterate? You talk like George W. Bush. How does "jihadism" match up with the lives of tens of millions of innocent civilians, destroyed since 1900 by state terrorism -- west and east, north and south -- or the continuing efforts seeking to seize or occupy territory? Reading your apoplectic oratory reminds one of the prior history of your country as one of the world's peacekeepers from the inspiration of Lester Pearson to the United Nations.

Anonymous Hacker Deported To US As Canada Refuses Asylum

March 3, 2015 Adrian Humphreys, www.news.nationalpost.com Resist! Anonymous, Canada, Technology

Matt DeHart, a former American soldier who sought asylum in Canada claiming torture by U.S. agents probing Anonymous hackers and WikiLeaks, was taken from his Ontario prison cell Sunday morning and delivered to U.S. agents at the border. Mr. DeHart, 30, was allowed to make a quick phone call en route to his parents, who are living in Toronto facing their own removal order, said his father, Paul. “He was peaceful and in good health,” Paul DeHart said in an interview but the family remains deeply worried. “We are concerned about Matt’s safety as he transits,” he said. “We said a prayer together on the phone and gave him into God’s hands for protection.” His claim for refugee protection in Canada, on the basis of his torture claim, was rejected last month by the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Student-Led Anti-Racism March Hits Downtown Winnipeg Streets

February 27, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Racial Justice, Student Activism

Hundreds gathered at the Manitoba Legislature as part of a student-led anti-racism march Thursday morning. Nearly 900 Students from about 20 schools took part in the Students Together Against Racism Today (START) demonstration. Racism has been under the microscope across the city after a Maclean’s Magazine article dubbed Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada. The story attracted attention from all over the country. While some Winnipeggers took issue with the accusation or the way the article was written, the city was galvanized in the weeks that followed, spurring conversations between politicians and community leaders about how to combat racism in the city. Mayor Brian Bowman stood with a group of prominent figures from Winnipeg's indigenous community and addressed the issue of racism in Winnipeg in the days that followed.

Canadian Spies Collect Domestic Emails In Secret Security Sweep

February 26, 2015 Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! Canada, Privacy, Surveillance

Canada’s electronic surveillance agency is covertly monitoring vast amounts of Canadians’ emails as part of a sweeping domestic cybersecurity operation, according to top-secret documents. The surveillance initiative, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, is sifting through millions of emails sent to Canadian government agencies and departments, archiving details about them on a database for months or even years. The data mining operation is carried out by the Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, Canada’s equivalent of the National Security Agency. Its existence is disclosed in documents obtained by The Intercept from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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