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In response to these recent raids that have occurred under the public's noses, there have been many mass public actions throughout Canada denouncing these dehumanizing attacks on racialized working-poor (im)migrant communities, including in Guelph, ON. Fuerza/Puwersa organized a potluck dinner and panel on April 30, 2009 in Downtown Guelph.

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The Council of Canadians took its message to Toronto teachers that their pension fund -- the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan -- should divest its shares from for-profit, private water utilities in Chile.

Our message -- teachers don't support private water, so neither should their pension fund. The OTPP owns 50.83 per cent of the Chilean water utility Essbio, 69.4 per cent of Esval, and 100 per cent of ANSM.

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Bell Canada says it will appeal to the federal cabinet a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that incumbent companies like Bell must open Internet connections to competitors and provide unimpeded access.

Apple Inc. introduced a new version of Apple  TV with shows from just two networks, underscoring its struggles to win over a media industry worried about losing control over the pricing of its programs.

Whenever I travel and stay in a hotel, I find myself sitting slack-jawed in front of late-night television. This is because I usually never watch TV. Let's get the accusations of sanctimony and the indignant spluttering about my haughty, cultural elitist perch out of the way. I prefer to think of myself as an innocent, wandering, dewy-eyed, in the wilderness of cable TV, which is wondrously full of Here There Be Peculiar Things. Everything on television is a revelation to me.

So can somebody please explain what the holy hell is up with the baby freakshow?

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Ken Kowalski, the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, has a reputation as the sly old fox of Alberta politics.

But the celebrated Mr. K seems to have been outfoxed by the far-right Wildrose Alliance, at least for the moment.

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The greatest tragedy in BHP Billiton's $38.6-billion (U.S.) bid for the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) is that the Government of Saskatchewan previously sold PCS for just $630 million. This privatization was the worst fiscal decision in the province's history and has been aggravated by subsequent royalty giveaways to private potash companies.

PCS was created in 1975 as a provincial Crown corporation. The Saskatchewan government privatized it in 1989, selling all of its shares by 1994.

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Kristin Guité, a community activist, shares her experience of the G20 protests in Toronto last month.

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On August 9th 2009, a series of health-related workshops brought together migrant people who live and work in various regions throughout Southwestern Ontario to the Centennial Arena in Virgil, Niagara on the Lake to participate in discussions about their health.

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Cynthia Palmaria, co-founder of GABRIELA Ontario, provides us with a comprehensive overview of the goings on in the time leading up to the May 10, 2010 Philippine general elections. She speaks about several of the controversies during election time this time around, updates us with recent news from international election observers of the People's International Observer's Mission (many of which are Canadian), and criticizes the Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo government of occupation for heightened state repression, political killings, and other injustices during election time.

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Montreal-based journalist and community organizer Stefan Christoff shares his experiences as an election observer in the Philippines in May of this year.

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On August 31, 2010, hundreds of northern residents gathered outside the Riverlodge Recreation Centre in Kitimat, British Columbia, voicing their opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Inside, the federal Joint Review Panel held its first public meeting on the project and listened to a litany of complaints and concerns about the proposal.

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From Aime Cesaire and Pablo Neruda to Mahmoud Darwish and Wislawa Szymborska, poets throughout the world have raised their voices in protest against injustice in all its forms.

And poets, artists, musicians and social activists will gather in various Toronto venues later this month to celebrate the boundless capacity of verse to resist oppression and create links among diverse communities. The International Festival of Poetry of Resistance (From September 16 to 20) will feature readings, roundtable discussions, musical performances and a special "festivalito" for children.

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