A voice for missing women; Thursday ceremony spotlights hundreds of murdered natives
By Rachel Punch, The Sudbury Star
Savannah Trudeau often doesn't feel safe when she's alone and, as a young aboriginal woman, those feelings are justified.
Hundreds of First Nations women - including about 30 in Ontario - have been murdered or simply vanished in the last few decades.
Spy watchdog fingers CSIS on torture data
Wed, February 13, 2008
By JIM BRONSKILL, Canadian Press
OTTAWA -- An investigation by the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concludes the spy agency "uses information obtained by torture" -- perhaps its bluntest assessment of CSIS's intelligence-gathering practices to date.
Rally supports U.S. couple; Pair fled to Canada after man deserted rather than return to Iraq
By Rachel Punch, reposted from The Sudbury Star
About 20 people gathered at a rally in Sudbury on Saturday in an effort to help U.S. Iraq war resisters, like deserter Michael Espinal and his partner, Jennifer Harrison, stay in Canada. Espinal and Harrison, who is expecting a child in April, have been living in Sudbury since the fall, when the couple fled Florida so Espinal would not have to serve a second tour of duty in Iraq.
Marleau urged to reject security measure
By Laura Stradiotto, reposted from The Sudbury Star
Members and supporters of Sudbury Against War and Occupation are pressuring Sudbury MP Diane Marleau to vote against a bill they say is discriminatory.
Canada's military exports soar as numbers go unreported: CBC investigation
October 29, 2007. CBC News.
Canada's military exports have more than tripled over the past seven years, a CBC News investigation has learned.
Over the past seven years, Canada has exported $3.6 billion in military goods. Canada now exports more arms and military goods than it imports.
Group protests Canadian secret trials
Date Published | Oct. 22, 2007 | Northern Life
BY WENDY BIRD
A group of concerned Sudburians banded together on the weekend to demand an end to the so-called "national security certificate" process that allows the Canadian government “to indefinitely detain non-citizens in Canada with completely inadequate due process.”
'It's such a fundamental violation of rights'; Protest calls attention to secret trials under Canada's anti-terror law
by Sudbury Star staff, October 22, 2007.
If Canadians knew the details of how their government is using unconstitutional legislation to treat immigrants, they wouldn't stand for it, activists protested during the weekend in Sudbury and cities across the country.
Invisible Afghan Casualties
by Linda MacQuaig
It's often noted that each death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan erodes public support for the war. What is infrequently noted is the way, with each death, the Canadian media seems to ratchet up its support for the war.
Undercover cops tried to incite violence in Montebello
August 22, 2007, as reported by the CBC
Police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., on Monday protesters say, after footage of the incident was posted on YouTube Tuesday.
Gaza: chaos foretold
The fragmentation of the Palestinian national identity is rooted in the failure of Oslo and in Israel’s divide and rule tactics in the West Bank and Gaza.
By Ramzy Baroud
By Samantha Craggs
Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:00
The Intelligencer
NAPANEE — Not even the honour of Shawn Brant's mother could keep the Mohawk activist out of jail on new charges of mischief and breach of recognizance.
Native protest an effort to get people 'to think'
By Laura Stradiotto/The Sudbury Star
Local News - Friday, June 29, 2007 Updated @ 11:04:31 PM
Native protesters from Manitoulin Island and the North Shore set up barricades on a major Northern highway on Friday and hoped motorists would see past the inconvenience.
