G20: The morons who came in from the cold
By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up. An RCMP “joint intelligence group” — comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police — infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call ”one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history.” Constable Bindo Showan of the Ontario Provincial Police, one of the two principal undercover Ontario spies, is a [...]
SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
By Alison@Creekside Oversight – noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from behind with a riot shield, beaten with a [...]
Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament
By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a ramshackle street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only by the gray light [...]
Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament — page 2
Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett replied. “There’s a man, Les Guerin, he’s a [...]
Lessons for Project Samosa
By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP’s latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than [...]
Manly moustaches v. lego beards
By Chris Bowman I’m doing some research right now which includes a lot of pictures from the 1870s and 1880s. Times were tough in old Canada back then; you had to be pretty rugged if you weren’t some city slicker from Ottawa. She’s an unforgiving country, though fair if you’re willing to work for her [...]
What did Wiebo Ludwig do?
By Alison@Creekside I don’t claim to be any kind of authority on Wiebo Ludwig — for that you can read Andrew Nikiforuk’s Saboteurs — but in all the considerable coverage of Ludwig’s arrest in connection with six cases of explosions on EnCana’s gas pipelines, I notice the media’s accompanying history of Ludwig makes no mention [...]
“That was totally useless. Thankyou.”
By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, reporters doggedly tried to wring from Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan exactly how long he withheld the RCMP’s Firearms Commissioner’s Report in favour of keeping the long-gun registry so that MPs would not have that info prior to passing the bill to scrap it. The report was released two days [...]
Olympics: Celebrate or else
By Alison@Creekside An enthusiastic supporter of the Beijing Olympics who posted his photos online at Flickr under a creative commons licence – which allows anyone to use them for free with attribution – received a cease and desist letter from International Olympic Committee lawyers: “Images of the Games taken by you may not be used [...]
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