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Idle No More Actions in Toronto #J11

fifthbusiness — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:34:46 +0000

Toronto, January 11, 2013: Round dance at Dundas Square. Vigil and rally at Queen's Park followed by a march to a concert in support

Idle No More - New year's day in Toronto

fifthbusiness — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:50:07 +0000

Idle No More round dance and candle light vigil for Chief Theresa Spence
Dundas Square, Toronto
January 1, 2013

July 31-First Nations' Languages Conference, Activist Group Infiltration, and Stop the Cuts! Toronto

GroundWire Production — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:16:07 +0000

GroundWire July 31st Edition

This week's edition produced and hosted by Sam Kriviak from CJSR in Edmonton on Treaty 6 land and traditional Cree territory.

The Headlines
Sam Kriviak | CJSR, Edmonton

Sacred Fire Burning at Queens Park for Ottawa’s South March Highlands

allan lissner — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:30:16 +0000

Media Co-op Investor: September

Gwalgen Dent — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:35:39 +0000

Potash Corporation Gets Discussed

Welcome to Media Co-op Investor!

The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefit from it.

G8/20: The Issues Pt. 4

Gwalgen Dent — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:24:54 +0000

Native Issues Absent from Agenda in Name Only

Toronto - With a heavy focus on G8/20 security, protesters, weapons and summit costs, Mainstream Media have been accused of failing to cover another important aspect of the G8/20: the issues. The Toronto Media Co-op takes aim at the Toronto G8/20 agenda and the grassroots response in this fourth part of a week-long series.

Photos from April 7th Grassy Narrows Protest

Gwalgen Dent — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:23:31 +0000

From a press release for the rally for Grassy Narrows held at April 7th at Grange Park:

Friends & Relatives of the Disappeared in Toronto

DannyLiberty — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:57:08 +0000

Words at the Friends & Relatives of the Disappeared rally in Toronto to bring attention to the lack of justice in Canada as a result of the Indian Residential Schools, featuring Kevin Annett of HiddenFromHistory.org, edited by Daniel Libby

Gabor Maté: Healing Emotional Pain & Social Change (Part 2)

Susan Krajnc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:55:55 +0000

Gabor Maté works as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel Society with the drug addicted women and men in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He is the author of 4 bestselling books: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More th

Gabor Maté: Healing Emotional Pain & Social Change (Part 1)

Susan Krajnc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:41:13 +0000

Another Site 41?

Gwalgen Dent — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:50:08 +0000

Landfill in Southern Ontario Starts Legal Battle

After years of blockades and campaigning, another battle to protect wetlands and water in Southern Ontario is going to court.

Cayuga is a small community on 6-Nations territory South of Hamilton. For 5 years, protesters, First-Nations and Cayuga community members have been trying to stop the development of a landfill by SF Partnership Chartered Accountants and Haldimand Norfolk Sanitary Landfill Inc. On October 2nd, preliminary hearings to stop the sites development occurred.

“There have been blockades to stop trucks coming in twice”, most recently in late 2008, says Jody Orr, co-chair of Haldimand Against Landfill Transfer (HALT). “What happened in 2007 was an attempt to bring garbage in and some members of the Haudenosaunee and our group stopped it. Since then, there has been little activity on the site. We keep a watch on it.”

Various blockades and legal battles around dumpsites and development have been occurring this summer in Southern Ontario. “Site 41” in Simcoe County was slated to have a dumpsite built on top of it for garbage in the surrounding area. Unfortunately for residents in the area, it was also on an aquifer containing the “purest water in the world”. Protesters and members of the Council Of Canadians filed an injunction claiming the site was operating illegally in July of 2009 and on September 22, Simcoe County councilors voted to stop construction and development of the site.

Just a few weeks earlier, development at the Hanlon Creek Business Park in Guelph was halted for 30 days by a court injunction. The site had been occupied beginning in July by Guelph and 6-Nations protesters. Recently, the City of Guelph then voted to halt construction until July 2010.