The Canadian troops, it was revealed by, were ordered to ignore rape in Afghanistan…
Meanwhile, five NATO occupation troops in Afghanistan were killed in bombings, as the number of US military deaths rose up to 451 according to the US govt…

I received the following message from our brother Ahmad Shokr in Canada…
Today I was acquitted of all charges in relation to the El Salon Riot in April 2006. The judge decided that the Crown could not prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. Thanks to all of you for your continued support and [...]

These are the words of the Canadian manager of Agrium Egypt…

From Al-Jazeera…
Canada’s highest court has ruled that the country violated international law in the case of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian being held at the Guantanamo Bay US detention centre in Cuba.
Khadr, has been held on terrorism charges for the past six years since he was detained at the age of 15 on claims he [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
The entire gamut of civil society in Damietta remains opposed to the construction of the Agrium fertilizer plant on the outskirts of the popular tourist destination Ras El Bar.
…
The proposed site of the factory falls in this direction, right outside the gates of Ras El Bar, six kilometers from the nearest [...]

I think this is a good idea that may be our activist professors can try it also with their students in Egypt to support the Arabic Wikipedia…?

From Tadamon…
Montreal, May 2008 - L’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ), a Quebec-wide student union representing over 42 000 students, has passed a resolution to support the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid. The motion was passed at the ASSÉ annual Congress, held on April 26th and 27th in Montreal. This [...]

I take my hat off to the wonderful Lebanese comrades who staged a protest in front of Mubarak’s Embassy in Beirut, in solidarity with the Mahalla workers and detainees… Click on the pic below to watch some photos, taken by Comrade Farah…

Here’s a posting from Razan who was at the demo, and Carole has more [...]

From Tadamon…
Canada’s first trade accord signed outside the western hemisphere was with Israel in 1997. International trade relations with Canada, the U.S. and the European Union are essential components to Israel’s economy, creating external markets for Israeli products to be sold, while embedding Israeli economic activity within the international market. Today, Palestinians are appealing [...]

Via If there is hope…

It is one thing for a journalist/blogger to go to an embassy to interview an official for a story… and it’s another thing to be used for a photo-op, and false propaganda about how this embassy sponsors human rights activists and dissidents, while it is in bed with the US in its foreign policy and [...]

The Canadian Labour Congress, which represents 3.2 million workers sent a letter to Hosni Mubarak, denouncing the crackdown on labor activist Kamal Abbas and his Center for Trade Unions and Workers’ Rights. Click on Kamal’s pic below to download it…

[Above: Kamal Abbas, director of the CTUWS, denouncing the security services’ crackdown on labor activists. Photo [...]

Public Service Announcement…
BOYCOTT Israeli Apartheid! PICKET Indigo/Chapters!
Bring your musical instruments & drums
for a cultural picket of singing & music!
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 6th. 1pm - 3pm
Indigo Bookstore
north-west corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada.
Click on Eric Drooker’s cartoon below for more details…

Public Service Announcement…
Who is the Terrorist? A Critical Conversation on Hezbollah
As part of Culture Shock 2007 at McGill University
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 6:30pm
Leacock Building, Room 232
McGill University
688 Sherbrooke St.
Montreal, Canada
Click on Ben Heine’s cartoon below for more details…

I received this from a Canadian labor activist…
7,000 British Columbia woodworkers, members of the Steelworkers union, have been on strike for 2 months. The major issues in the strike include health and safety - almost 70 workers have been killed at work in the past 2 years.
Wood products made by the struck companies [...]

From Tadamon…
Montreal, September 18th 2007: The Montreal network of the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid welcomed former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during a launch of his autobiography at Indigo bookstore by unfurling a banner denouncing the apartheid situation under which Palestinians are living.
Marcel Sévigny, a member of the network, wanted to call on Mr. Mulroney [...]

Public Service Announcement…
Picket and Remembrance in Downtown Montreal.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1pm
Indigo Bookstore
Corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada
Click on the poster below for more details…

[The Lunarium - Armageddon - The End pt.1]

The Egyptian Labor Minister, Aisha Abdel Hadi, Mubarak’s butcher of the working class, is arriving tomorrow Sunday in Canada for an official visit, I was notified by labor organizers back home…
On behalf of Egyptian activists, I’m calling on Canadian trade unionists, labor organizers, human rights and leftist activists to give the minister the appropriate welcome [...]