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Seal-meat loin on MPs' lunch menu - CBC.ca

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:13 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

Seal-meat loin on MPs' lunch menu
CBC.ca
(Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)Forget the Winter Olympics — nothing unites Canada's parliamentarians like some bacon-wrapped seal loin. ...
Let them eat seal: Parliament puts seal meat on the menuThe Canadian Press

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Meddling with the love of medals - Real Change News

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:32 GMT

Meddling with the love of medals
Real Change News
... raised their voices in protest. When did you decide to go and why? Michelle: We decided a month or two before the Olympics, but I had been thinking ...

Olympic treatment of the poor wins no medals - Real Change News

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:56 GMT

Olympic treatment of the poor wins no medals
Real Change News
The Games triggered very public demonstrations — including a massive protest at the opening ceremonies — and more private efforts as the these groups worked ...

David Eby Denounces Allies

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:10 GMT

BCCLA Executive Director David Eby interviewed on his misunderstanding of diversity of tactics.

Green Future Funeral

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:56 GMT

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held on March 3rd 2010 a symbolic funeral for a Green Future in front of Royal Bank of Canada's main office on West Georgia Street in Vancouver.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Olympics - The Citizen

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:36 GMT

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Olympics
The Citizen
The Cold War boycotts of 1980 and 1984 were statements of protest. The 1980 Miracle on Ice was a statement to the American people that there would be ...

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Confronting RBC

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:09 GMT

Confronting RBC
Toronto's biggest protest against the Tar Sands
posted by Tim Groves, March 3, 2010
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/2942

Black Bloc and Anti-Colonial Resistance at 2010 Olympics

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:32 GMT

The Black Bloc and the 21st Century anti-Colonial Movement at the Olympics
http://alexhundert.wordpress.com/

Olympic Legal Defence Fundraising and Support Needed!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:13 GMT

March 5, 2010

The Olympics are over but the struggle continues! Vancouver's political community is still being targeted by the police with substantial surveillance and intimidation, unlawful arrests and detentions, unnecessary violence, police provocateurs, and unjust charges requiring legal defence. Nearly 10 people in your community face legal battles and need your support.

After the Games: British Columbia's Hangover Begins

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:20 GMT

By Am Johal - March 05, 2010

Budget Day in BC hit like a brick yesterday. After all the empty patriotism and uncritical headlines in Vancouver mainstream media that glossed over 8 years of democratic distortion, which approached neo-authoritarianism at times, the sad reality of Olympic opportunity costs are about to hit daylight.

G8/G20 to be Biggest Security Operation in Canadian History

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:59 GMT

By Natalie Alcoba - February 22, 2010

The G8 and G20 summits this summer will be the largest security event in Canadian history...[T]here is already a glimpse of the force being amassed to protect those coming to and living in Toronto: the federal government’s “Integrated Security Unit” will include Toronto police, RCMP, the OPP, the Canadian Forces and Peel Region Police.

Vancouver: In Defence of the Diversity of Tactics

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:32 GMT

By Alex Hundert - Tuesday, March 02 2010

When the march reached the police line outside of BC Place [on Feb. 12, the first day of the Olympics], the cops started pushing and shoving the front line. Indigenous women called for the Black Bloc to move to the front to hold the line. When the elders amongst that leadership group decided that the crush from the police was too much, the Black Bloc made space for them to move to the back of the crowd.

After the Games: Report from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:12 GMT

In the Shadow of the Olympic Flame: A Report from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the Poorest Neighborhood in Canada

Four More Anti-Olympic Rebels Arrested

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:14 GMT

Four more anti-Olympics activists arrested in Vancouver
Cops comment on catching "a whole paddywagon full of anarchists"
by Vancouver Media Co-op →2010 Olympics
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2935

The Ganja Games

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:04 GMT

By MATT SIEGRFIRED - March 3, 2010

I was interested to see how the world media would pronounce on the very well developed and tolerated, if legally ambiguous, British Columbia marijuana mores...B.C. is a byword for quality herb and, relatively, chill enforcement with weed joining health care, curling and community theater as signposts of Canada’s more civilized society despite all of the similarities between them and us, the barbarians next door. With a wink and a nod Canada, more or less, let the heads alone during the games with only positive effects all around it would seem.

Post-Olympic Budget Crunch May Benefit Environment

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:42 GMT

“These were not the 'Greenest Games', they were the Freeway Olympics...The [British Columbia] government has been attempting to brand itself as a 'Green Leader' during these games, yet their own studies show that provincial greenhouse gas emission targets are being undermined by their massive freeway expansion scheme...There is nothing green about paving farmland.”

-- Transportation Planner and GatewaySucks.org Organizer Eric Doherty

Games Over! Rally Ends with Deployment of Riot Squad

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:27 GMT

March 2, 2010

On Sunday February 28, some 200 protesters took to the streets as part of a 'Games Over! Resistance Lives' rally on the day of the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Gathering in the downtown area just blocks from BC Place, the protesters were initially blocked by lines of Vancouver police from moving down some streets.

Derrick OKeefe Safe Assembly VIVO

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:53 GMT

February 22, 2010 On the last night of our Vancouver trip to cover the anti-Olympic protests, B Channel News attended a forum at VIVO, a media arts centre that has existed in Vancouver since 1973. The event was called ?The Evening News? and was one of six such events that happened as a part of VIVO 2010: Safe Assembly. From the VIVO website: ?Each evening will lean upon the experiences, observations, footage, and art of residents, media activists, and artists living around Vancouver for citizen?s ?reports? on everyday life in the province, direct action and protest, and other transitory and lasting social effects of the megaevent. By asking the Vancouver Media Coop, the ORN, various local organizers, researchers, activists, and cultural workers to think through these associations during the Olympics the idea is to create an archive of community response that shapes dialogue and enables unique distributions of critique. With an understanding that the meaning of the Winter Olympics is much of what is at stake, the hope is to facilitate coherence amidst critical political and cultural communities.? The audience for this event was a who?s who of anti-Olympic activists, including many of the key organizers and spokespeople for the Olympic Resistance Network. Also in the audience were NDP Member of Parliament Libby Davies, and a large crew of Vancouver Media Co-op volunteers. The evening started with four video clips presented by Vancouver Media Co-op?s Frank Lopez, and included a video produced by B Channel News on the Olympic Tent Village. After the films, a panel discussion convened, with David Eby, Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, Chris Shaw, UBC professor, author and member of the ORN, Derrick O?Keefe, editor of Rabble.ca, and Dawn Paley, a journalist and editor with the Vancouver Media Co-op. Three of the four on the panel spoke out against the actions of some members of the black bloc during Saturday?s march, and the fourth, Dawn Paley, who was among those expressing support for diversity of tactics, spoke mainly about the role of independent media. After the panel, chairs were arranged in a circle, all videos cameras were turned off, and for the next hour participants stood and spoke their minds about the actions of the black bloc. B Channel News presents our video coverage of the panel presentations in a four part video series. For more on the events of the February 13 ?Heart Attack March? checkout our comprehensive multi-media coverage here. These pages and more are part of our feature section Outside the Venues: The Other Side of the Olympic Celebrations

Dawn Paley Safe Assembly

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:32 GMT

David Eby Safe Assembly VIVO

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:23 GMT