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May 15
Does A New Supreme Court Ruling Put Idle No More Protesters At Peril? (feat. Ron Plain)
On December 21st, 2011 members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation partnered with members of Toronto’s anarchist community and setup a blockade of a CN Rail track. They claimed that the track was unauthorized to run over their territory so they had every right to block it. The blockade was rather controversial, as not only did …
May 08
Tahrir Square Revolutionary Questioned By Canadian Border Officials, Cries Out “Racial Profiling!”
On May 3rd a Native American activist from Bismarck North Dakota named Patricia Stein flew into Saskatoon. Like every other passenger on her plane, Stein was required to clear customs/immigration checks with an officer from the Canadian Border Services Agency. After a short interview she was directed to go to the waiting area for a secondary interview. …
May 06
How The President Of The CUPE 2073 Is A Danger To Society (feat. Rob Chamberland & A Voice For Men)
Rob Chamberland is the president of the CUPE 2073, a Toronto based local for people who are hearing impaired. He’s an Anarcho-Syndicalist, a branch of anarchism/socialism that believes the future demands a violent revolution after which we should all be led by the unions. For most Canadians, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of. One …
May 03
May Day Mayhem Part I: How Militant Anarchist Socialists Threaten Our Freedoms… (feat. Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal)
Anyone who saw the news about Wednesday night’s incident in Seattle is now aware it was May Day. The violence that occured reminds us that May Day originated out of a terrorist incident. It was 1886 when a group of unionists and police clashed in Chicago’s Haymarket square and someone threw a bomb into the …
Apr 30
Hollyhock’s Fake Pulitzer Epidemic (feat. Linda Solomon of the Vancouver Observer, Rex Weyler of Greenpeace & University of the Fraser Valley)
Hollyhock is arguably Canada’s most controversial New Age retreat. It’s set on a plot of land near the southern tip of Cortes Island in British Columbia, a sparsely populated place with only about 450 people in the off-season that at least doubles during the summer. It’s a mystical island with mind-blowing natural beauty- untouched beaches, …
Apr 27
How I’m Learning Not To Take Anonymous So Seriously (feat. @YourAnonNews, @TorontoPolice & Sakura Saunders)
If you’re a regular reader you’ll probably remember my first interaction with Anonymous on February 13th. The genius who runs the @YourAnonNews Twitter account (w/1 million+ followers) tweeted that I like to try to get Canadian activists arrested on false charges. I explained to them they were mistaken, but the person running the account wasn’t …
Apr 26
Barrick Gold Protest Degrades Into Cop Baiting Rally (feat. Capt. Yarr, Civilian Media & Sakura Saunders!)
Wednesday was Barrick Gold‘s annual general meeting and, like previous years, Sakura Saunders and her merry band of anarchists came to protest. Barrick’s been having a hard time of things lately, between drops in the price of gold and some challenged project schedules their stock hasn’t been satisfying investors. So, it was sure to be …
Apr 23
[UPDATED] Toronto Radical Socialists Use 420 Day As Backdrop For Fraudulent Pro-Venezuelan Propaganda!
UPDATE: The guy leading the chants in last weekend’s video (black hat, red jacket) shared a trailer and public address system with Sakura Saunders at last year’s May Day parade as they screamed out anti-capitalist chants. Follow this link for a video. __________________________ On Saturday Toronto celebrated 420 Day, one of the city’s most popular …
Apr 22
[UPDATED] Twitter Nasties: Vancouver Parks Board Should Censure Sarah Blyth Tonight (But should she be sacked?)
Update: I spoke with the media relations for the Parks Board at 4:30 and they told me that the motion would go ahead as planned. Now, there has been a change, and the proceedings will be held in-camera. This is what the City of Vancouver calls democracy? __________________________ Vancouver’s political Twitterverse has a become an increasingly nasty …
Apr 19
[UPDATED] The Pidgin Protest: NDP MLA David Eby’s Downtown Eastside Olympic Legacy…
Update: The people of Vancouver-Point Grey have now elected Eby into office, God help us all… Radical activism in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) has been getting out of hand for several years now- beginning in the early 2000’s with the formation of the infamous (and now defunct) Anti-Poverty Committee. The APC was a militant anarchist organization …