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  • Canada Expands Free Trade with Israel - May Lose UN seat Vote
    12 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada is Israel’s best friend. So said Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman when he visited there. Canada has both a sweeping Security Agreement and Free Trade Agreement with Israel. Canada was the first to cut all aid and support to Gaza after the democratic election of Hamas. It also banned Viva Palestina and ex British MP George Galloway from entering on the grounds he was a ’terrorist’. ’We need more international friends like Canada’, said Lieberman. Now Canada has announced (…)

  • George Galloway Live from Toronto: ’Jason Kenney Must Go!’
    3 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Galloway on Rabble TV in Toronto addresses the legal implications of his recent court decision indicting the Canadian government for barring his entry to Canada as a ’terrorist’. Galloway at his best - Look out Jason Kenney
    http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/progr...

  • Canada, Israel and Palestine
    21 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yves Engler
    "Part of the US Security Coordinator office in Jerusalem, the Canadian military mission in the West Bank (dubbed Operation PROTEUS) now includes RCMP officers as well as officials from Foreign Affairs, Justice Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency. According to deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Kent, Operation PROTEUS is Canada’s ’second largest deployment after Afghanistan and it receives ’most of the money’ from a 5 year $300 Million Canadian ’aid’ program to (…)

  • JTF2: Canada’s Special Forces Actions in Afghanistan Probed
    21 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CBC News
    "Two criminal investigations launched by military police into the actions of Canadian special forces into the actions of Canadian special forces soldiers in Afghanistan probed the alleged improper killing of Afghans, CBC News has learned...Throughout the Afghan engagement Canadian special forces operated jointly with those of other nations, including Afghanistan and the US. The JTF2 unit was attached to an American special forces command based in Kandahar. JTF2 took its tactical (…)

  • The G-20 Summit In Toronto; Tear Gas, Bee Girls, Fences and Riots
    13 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Spanner McNeil
    The G-20 and G-8 Summit about to take place in Toronto at the end of June may have a Quebec City model as its template. I offer it as a historical comparison.
    In 2001 the Economic Summit of the Americas was held in Quebec City. Presidents, economists and bag men from over thirty countries attended this third in a series of North and South American free trade talks. My girlfriend, Robin and I and her teenage son Alex returned to Montreal slightly after midnight. We were (…)

  • G8/G20 Toronto Community Mobilization June 25-27: Join US!
    19 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20 Leaders are meeting in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people are organizing a Peoples Convergence. Join US
    http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/135

  • Pro-Zionist, Islamophobic Apartheid Australia signs $349 million "defence" deal with Apartheid Israel
    17 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro-Zionist Australia (aka Apartheid Australia because it has race-based laws excluding many Indigenous Australians from the protection of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act: ) has been politically dominated by pro-Zionist and indeed racist Zionist-beholden America since the 1975 CIA-backed coup that removed the reformist Whitlam Labor Party from power (see William Blum’s “Rogue State”).
    The racist Zionists have cemented their grip on Australia and on the Australian Labor Party in (…)

  • Where’s That Olympic Truce?
    18 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Where’s That Olympic Truce?
    by Derrick OKeefe
    "The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted in protest of the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Then - US president Jimmy Carter announced the boycott in February 1980, and Canada and dozens of other countries soon followed suit. Thirty years later it is the United States, Canada and other NATO countries that are occupying Afghanistan...
    It’s now fair to speculate that the Games have been used even more (…)

  • RECENT THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION
    16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    LEONARD SAX AND MORE ON SEGREGATED EDUCATION AND THE ENTIRE MISDIRECTION OF "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS"
    RESPONSE TO A CBC RADIO ONE PROGRAM ON THE CURRENT
    Your guest, Leonard Sax, only proved how little genuine scholarship and hard thinking often go into discussions of education.
    First he told us of research showing the differences in brain development between boys and girls at a young age – actually pretty fatuous research since the difference is a practical reality that any person of (…)

  • Olympic Industrial Complex Meets Gold Medal Resistance
    11 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Showdown in Vancouver
    by Jules Boykoff
    ...Just behind the slick, smiley-faced facade of Olympic spirit, the Canadian state is flexing its militarized muscles, employing an array of tactics designed to suppress political dissent.
    I begin to sense what activist Harsha Walia of No One Is Illegal and The Olympic Resistance Network described as ’the overall militarization of Vancouver and an encroaching police and surveillance state.’
    [Please forward and circulate] (…)