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Police Shoot Another Person in Montreal – Didn’t You Notice?

Last week the Montreal police issued a sanguine press release announcing that they had shot a man in NDG. Seeing as it received only brief mention in some of the francophone press, it’s worth mentioning here. According to the police at 4:35pm cops from the drug squad went to arrest …

Canada’s Crackdown on the Tamil Tigers: An Update of Sorts…

i missed this article last week, giving details of where the legal suppression of the World Tamil Movement is at. While i do not know enough about the WTM or about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) to stake out and defend a position, i think …

Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women in the u$a

Quick heads up: last week Amnesty International released a report on sexual violence against Indigenous women in amerika. i have not had a chance to read Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA, but you all can do so as it’s online.From …

What Is Racial Profiling?

For the past month or more i have been putting off reviewing this book about racial profiling. i’ve spent today hammering out some thoughts, but am not there yet – but it did occur to me that it would be useful to have some sketched out description of what the …

A Mayday Action in Downtown Montreal

There will be a Mayday action this Tuesday in downtown Montreal, organized by the Comité des Sans-Emploi, a radical working class anti-capitalist group in Montreal, one of the few which i would consider describing as “revolutionary”. For those who don’t know, the Comité was at the forefront of some very …

Canada: Not Worth Standing For, But Worth Fighting Against!

This is a follow-up on yesterday’s post, about a Mi’kmaq high school student who refused to stand for Canada’s national anthem and was subsequently kicked out of class, and later “roughed up” by other students. Yesterday i didn’t know the student in question was Mi’kmaq, because the media never mentioned …

Nation of Sheep, Owned by Pigs, Ruled by Wolves

The young guy above is a refugee from Liberia. The photo, i recently learned, is in the latest issue of Adbusters magazine, the artsy self-styled “journal of the mental environment”. And the t-shirt he’s wearing, if you didn’t know it, is one of mine. The Nation of Sheep t-shirt has …