since the CBC has moderated my comment regarding their poor coverage of the Heart Attack 2010 demonstration at the 2010 anti-olympics convergence, and restricted this free speech from the website that the public purse pays for, i decided i would post my comments anyway, and take the opportunity to expand on the ideas.

smashing inanimate objects, such as windows is not violent. no person or other living thing was harmed or killed. the destruction of communities, lives, and ecosystems in the name of a transnational corporate 'sporting' event is violent.

“No Olympics on Stolen Native Land”

On Saturday December 27th, in Kitchener Ontario over 200 people headed the call out for a public mobilization against the 2010 olympic torch and acted in solidarity with those on the west coast of this country who are being negatively impacted because of the upcoming winter games.

-download full 25 minute video- or watch on youtube.

From The Dominion

Site 41 resistance seeks revocation of CofA

by Dan Kellar

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

No dump will be built on Site 41 this year, but County Council will not restore the Site, and has left a door open to its future development. Photo: Dan Kellar

We did it!

from stopdumpsite41.ca
By Kate Harries - WaterWatch

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop’s Bill 32 passed second reading in the Ontario legislature this afternoon.
It’s a bill that calls for revocation of the Certificate of Approval for Dump Site 41.
Dunlop was supported by his Progressive Conservative colleagues and members of the New Democratic Party – the surprise was that a number of Liberals, including Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield went against the party line resulting in a vote of 40 in favour, 11 against.
“I think it was people who were listening to their constituents,” Dunlop said, adding that MPPs have been deluged with emails, letters and calls over the past few weeks.

Simcoe County permanently gives up on Site 41 dump
September 22nd, 2009
-from the Canadian Press

MIDHURST, Ont. — A long and hard-fought community battle to stop a landfill being built atop a groundwater source culminated Tuesday with all development at the site being permanently discontinued.

Opponents of the so-called Site 41 dump site, about 40 kilometres northwest of Barrie, Ont., fought for years against the landfill, concerned about what it would mean for water quality.

Simcoe county council voted last month to place a one-year moratorium on the site in Tiny Township and its mayor Peggy Breckenridge and lawyer Peter Rosenthal say council voted Tuesday to make that permanent.

A great update from the site 41
resistance!

BARRIE – The Dump Site 41 battle moved out of the court system and into the political arena after lawyers representing Vicki Monague of Beausoleil First Nation reached a settlement with Simcoe County representatives Friday morning.

SAVE OUR OLD GROWTH FOREST!

Occupation Day 1 – video (music by Testament)

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From: Brantford Expositor, July 10.
Smoke Shop Owner Arrested
Haldimand County OPP succeeded Thursday in their second attempt to arrest the owner of a controversial smoke shack on private property on Highway 6, just south of the town.

Journalists for Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University have released an eight article news magazine outlining how the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia are leading to wide scale abuses of human rights to a diverse selection of people

download--> JHR Laurier - an Olympic Issue

While democracy now! and many others including AW@L Radio have been discussing the situation of fishermen in Somalia, who for matters of survival are defending their UN enshrined oceanic economic zon

I thought The Cord was above joining other media sources by giving space to Global Warming Junk Science – then I read Alanna Wallace’s February 4^th column “We need to be wary of Global Warming.”  Her entire piece, other than being contradictory, was insulting to those that have studied climate change (and are not paid by oil) and to those who have watched more than two documentaries on the issue of the climate crisis.

The decision to publish in the January 23rd edition of the UW paper, the Imprint with the community editorial by Tom Levesque needs to be questioned by those paying for the publication of the student paper – the students. Editors made the conscious decisions to run an article that openly calls for indiscriminate warfare against the civilian population in Gaza. Student fees have helped fund the publication of an article calling for war crimes to be committed.

Dan Kellar
Being the Change

Police Suck. I usually avoid such blanket statements, but since I can only think of one exception to the idea (thanks for the drive home Royal Constabulary in St. John’s) I will stand firmly behind it. My recent wave of disgust with the repressive agents of the state was triggered by the brutal murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Greece on December 6th 2008.

The Uprising in Athens was sparked by the murder of a youth Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the police. In solidarity actions around the world, people told the police that enough was enough, no more state sponsored murder. Cops must be held accountable.
On New Years Day 2009 in Hayward California, the police, in cold blood, murdered Oscar Grant.

From Democracy Now:
"Oakland Police Shooting Victim to Be Buried

I had one of the most empowering days of my life two weekends ago. On Sunday October 12th, the peace group I am involved in (Anti-War Laurier), along with activists from Six Nations, Toronto, Guelph, London, and Hamilton performed a non-violent direct action by blocking the CP Olympic Spirit Train, the corporate propaganda tool which I introduced last week.