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Why We Should Welcome Boatful of Tamil Refugees Into Canada

Harsha Walia a Vancouver-activist with No One Is Illegal and other groups, had the following opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun: From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China’s Fujian province …

Army Recruitment Center Bombed in Quebec

Around 3am on July 2nd, a bomb exploded just outside a Canadian Army Recruitment Center in Trois Rivieres, a small city roughly half-way between Montreal and Quebec City. The building was empty at the time, and nobody was hurt. While one man was arrested at the scene of the attack, …

Canadian Counterinsurgency vs. Indigenous Resistance: Doug Bland’s Predictions

Counterinsurgency hype [tripe] from one of Canada’s white warriors: Conditions ripe for major aboriginal uprising, academic says Young first nations people are largely poor, uneducated, prone to crime and live near vulnerable resource areas, ex-Forces officer argues By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver SunMarch 11, 2010 Canadians and their political leaders are …

Undercovers and "Security Experts" re: 2010

Two reports in regarding police infiltration, surveillance and smears in the lead-up to the 2010 olympics in b.c. First, the No2010 blog tells us that Victoria Police Chief Jamie Grahamhas been bragging about undercover penetration of the anti-2010 activist scene, joking (?) at a security conference about how the bus …

"I plead guilty, I’m a racist." — Jason Kenney

From pals at No One Is Illegal-Montreal: Jason Kenney confronted and disrupted in Montreal October 23, 2009 — Migrant justice activists and organizers, with their McGill allies, confronted and disrupted Jason Kenney — Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism — before and during a closed function with Conservative McGill. …

The Golden Rule of Genocide: Admit Nothing

“We [Canadians] have no history of colonialism.”—Stephen Harper at the G20 in Pittsburgh Gee,what a relief. Someone should go tell the Indians, i s’pose. (thx to Firewitch for posting this.)

[ZNet] Anti-Semitism in Canada

Yesterday’s article by Yves Engler on ZNet, about the way in which right-wing groups and the Canadian government use charges of anti-semitism to advance their own agenda: Which Canadians suffer more discrimination: Those of African descent, Muslims, Latin Americans, South Asians, East Asians, Arabs, First Nations or Jews? If you …