Another nasty law about to be passed under our noses....

Proposed law -

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Backbencher's bill on masked protesters gets Conservative backing
Ottawa- The Canadian Press
Published Sunday, May. 06, 2012 1:57PM EDT
Last updated Sunday, May. 06, 2012 2:06PM EDT

The Harper government is throwing its weight behind a private members' bill that would give police the power to arrest anyone hiding their identity during a riot or unlawful assembly.

Conservative backbencher Blake Richards is proposing penalties of up to five years in prison or a fine of up to $5,000 for protesters who wear a mask or disguise.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has formally announced the Conservative majority will support the legislation, meaning it is all but assured of becoming law.

Mr. Richards says the bill is designed to give police more power to prevent the kinds of riots that have caused so much damage, including the current student riots in Quebec, the Stanley Cup riot of last spring in Vancouver and the G20 protests in Toronto two years ago.

Mr. Richards says he sees the bill as primarily preventative in nature, allowing police to step in before violence and property damage escalate.

But civil libertarians are concerned that the legislation will give police the power to break up peaceful protests, which are frequently filled with people in costumes, masks or even face paint that could be construed as concealing identity under the new law.

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Here is a link to a page that helps you beat facial recognition software even if you cannot mask yourself. 

Canada is in a National Emergency!

REPOST FROM OCCUPY CANADA

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Canada is in a National emergency, that's the truth. The Harper government has declared the Canadian people to be enemies of the state and most people don't even know it.

Enemies of the State:
It seems hard to imagine today that a Canadian government would approve a plan to round up thousands of law-abiding Canadians and lock them away simply because they were perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy.
CBC Fifth estate: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/enemiesofthestate/

The government of Canada has been hijacked conservatives re-brand the Canadian government in Stephen Harper’s name
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-re-brand-government-in-stephen-harpers-name/article1929175/

Harper Government broke the law when dismantling Wheat Board: Federal Court, This will allow corporate GMO companies to take over Canada: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/07/government-broke-the-law-when-dismantling-wheat-board-federal-court/

Harper Government labels environmentalists "terrorist threat" in new report
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/02/10/are-canadian-environmentalists-terrorist-threat

Under Harper's government: CSIS and RCMP equate Greenpeace and PETA with terrorists
source: http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/csis_and_rcmp_equate_greenpeace_and_peta_with_terrorists/c166a26d

Under Harper's government Natives decry military's comparison of protests to terrorism
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/natives-decry-militarys-comparison-of-protests-to-terrorism/article2200798/

Harper government’s muzzle on federal scientists
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1139734--prestigious-science-journal-slams-harper-government-s-muzzle-on-federal-scientists

Harper's public safety minister Vic Toews said 'Your With us or with the child pornographers' if you were opposed to bill C-30 which is spying on ALL Canadians including your internet access and cellphone records all without warrants. source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/with-us-or-with-the-child-pornographers-doesnt-cut-it-mr-toews/article2337425/

Harper's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a new anti-terrorism strategy that identifies as threats eco-extremists, animal-rights radicals and anti-capitalists. source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/security-services-deem-environmental-animal-rights-groups-extremist-threats/article2340162/

Macleans Magazine: Harper's promise: a warrantless online surveillance state source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/13/harpers-promise-a-warrantless-online-surveillance-state/

CBC News: Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother Section 34 gives Orwellian powers to government-appointed 'inspectors'
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-vp-terry-milewski-bill-c30.html

Toronto Sun: Say hello to Big Brother Harper Government
source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/14/say-hello-to-big-brother-government

Stephen Harper breaks election rules, campaigns on radio on election day
source: http://www.examiner.com/canada-headlines-in-canada/stephen-harper-breaks-election-rules-campaigns-on-radio-on-election-day

Conservative Party fined for breaking election laws
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/10/pol-conservative-election-in-and-out.html

Conservative Party may have broken election law
http://www.brockpress.com/news/external-news/conservative-party-may-have-broken-election-law-1.2828426#.T3QbGdXO-So

Stephen Harper's closest advisor Bruce Carson was convicted on five counts of fraud -- three more than previously known -- and received court-ordered psychiatric treatment before becoming one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's closest advisers. And his lawyer told The Canadian Press that Carson disclosed his entire criminal record during a security check that was required to become a senior staffer in the Prime Minister's Office.
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110403/carson-pm-fraud-110403/#ixzz1qUZMcgq3

Can't forget Harper's $1Billion dollar security summit which hijacked Toronto..

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Evil bill passes very quietly.

Repost from Occupy Canada. 

In the midst of the con's Reform Party RoboCall Scandal, another very sad day for Canada happened without enough noise, the evil CON crime bill got passed although no sane person wanted it. They are actually forcing crime rates to rise to fill those jails. they are also punishing pot growers longer than child rapists.

Its time to remove crime minister Stephen harper and the cons for election fraud, all bills passed under their illegitimate majority harper government shall now be considered null and void. They hijacked the government of Canada that's the truth, We have to save Canada for the future of our children and society as a whole who's with Occupy Canada?
Join us 37,000 and growing! http://www.facebook.com/OccupyCanada

JOIN US! Saturday, March 31 at 2:30pm at Old City Hall
Toronto Rally For a New Election NOW! Phase 2 against Election Fraud
Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/340913062611341/

Other cities being are being added here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/388129707864596/

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Feb 14, 2012 Legalize pot, say former B.C. attorneys general
B.C. 'lost its war with the marijuana industry,' says letter.
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/02/14/bc-pot-legalize.html

Harper Punishing pot growers more severely than pedophiles.
source: http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/punishing_pot_growers_more_severely_than_pedophiles/4a0891e1

"I was offered a joint once and I was too drunk" - Stephen Harper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PebGfrX7JpE

Americans shocked Harper crime bill gives more time to pot growers than pedophiles
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/americans-odds-harper-crime-bill-gives-more-jail-160536154.html

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin set out the grim
reality. "We have wonderful justice for corporations and for the wealthy," she told a Toronto conference. "But the middle class and the poor may not be able to access our justice system." source: http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/02/16/legal-system-doesnt-work-for-the-majority-supreme-court-judge/

Watch Video#1 Harper's Creepy Crime Bill Street Quiz
http://youtu.be/uLY5j_7gSvs

Watch Video#2 on the crime bill Bill C-10 that was passed last week.
http://www.youtu.be/1qGHF5IzfaE

The omnibus crime bill is a crime
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1144453--fiorito-the-omnibus-crime-bill-is-a-crime

Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973
Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before. source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html

Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low
Public safety minister pleased, but says Tories won't change crime approach
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/10/26/homicides-statscan.html

**Omnibus Crime Bill: Mental Illness Not A Consideration.**
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illness, including young offenders who find themselves being sentenced as adults. source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/01/canada-omnibus-crime-bill-mental-illness_n_1124184.html

Controversial crime bill to cost Canadians $19 billion: study
http://www.vancouversun.com/Controversial+crime+bill+cost+Canadians+billion+study/5832700/story.html

Conservatives To Spend $9 Billion For New Jails plus the $19 Billion for the new crime bill implementation/funding
source: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/national/article/88681--conservatives-to-spend-9-billion-for-new-jails-implement-criminal-code-changes-targeting-gangs

The cost of the federal prison system has risen 86% since the Harper government took over in 2006, government reports show. Prison costs soar 86% in past five years: report- By 2013-14, the cost of the federal penitentiary system will have almost doubled to $3.147-billion, according to budget projections.
Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

Keeping a male inmate in jail per year cost tax payers $109,699 according to a 2009 corrections Canada report: in 2011 it rose to $113,974 a year.

Recent government reports on the cost of Canada's jails show costs rising on all fronts. For instance, the cost of keeping a male inmate in prison rose from $88,067 per year in 2006 to $109,699 in 2009, according to the most recent data from Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview.The cost of staffing Canada's federal prisons has also increased significantly, with 5,745 more staff hired at Corrections Canada since the Conservatives took power. Staffing numbers have risen from 14,663 in 2005-06 to 20,408 full-time equivalents in 2011-12, according to Reports on Plans and Priorities.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

$312 per prisoner, per day in Canada.
source: http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/02/28/canadas-criminal-sitting-pretty-as-price-tag-for-prisoners-soars

**Texas conservatives** reject Harper's crime plan
'Been there; done that; didn't work,' say Texas crime-fighters
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/17/pol-vp-milewski-texas-crime.html

Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/crime-bill-unfairly-targets-women-aboriginals-critics-say-132223703.html

The Ontario government says the omnibus federal crime bill will cost the province's taxpayers more than $1 billion in increased police and correctional service costs.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/01/23/ontario-federal-crime-bill.html

Rally against RoboGate on Sunday

I was disappointed with the turnout for the rally against the Robogate and election fraud. There was way too few people. Not sure how come a whole segment of the splinter groups of Occupy Montreal who were not aware of this event.  I'm talking about the ones who come to all the marches - especially the anonymous mask wearing ones.  I did end up taking photos.

Here's the other thing, there are events or marches almost every day these days. It gets overwhelming the volume of events.  In Montreal the students are on strike in many universities and CEGEP's so there are plenty of student protests.

Wake Up-- Rage Against Illegitimate Harper Government!

MONTREAL RALLY AGAINST ROBOGATE - Today at NOON SQUARE VICTORIA!!!!!

SPVM recherche des victimes potentielles...

Interesting choice of words from a tweet from Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal, especially when translated into English. Check out this blog :)

Would you be pissed to realize your significant other is an UNDERCOVER POLICE officer?

Several activist women in Canada, the US, Great Britain and I'm sure other countries wake up to realize that their boyfriend is nothing but an undercover cop and their entire relationship has been a scam to monitor the activities of an activist group. Even worse when they FATHER CHILDREN with these women. Read more.

Elections Canada faces 31000 complaints in robo-call probe

Re-post from Occupy Canada page 

The ballot watchdog reported that as of Friday morning it had registered 31,000 "contacts" or messages from Canadians regarding the 2011 federal election campaign and the use of fraudulent, misleading or harassing calls designed to suppress votes. The number vastly outdistances grievances lodged after previous general elections.
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/elections-canada-faces-31000-complaints-in-robo-call-probe/article2356455/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A+RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2356455

Stephen Harper Stole 2011 Election?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkcWN9DSKY

Measuring the impact of robocalls in the 57 ridings allegedly targeted
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/28/robocall-ridings/

cbc news: photo posted to Facebook by (Robocalls) RackNine CEO Matt Meier, in which he noted that "government does pay"
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/order-paper-watch-ndp-wants-info-on-government-money-going-to-racknine-rmg-and-campaign-research.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Link Between Racknine President Matt Meier and the Harper Government , personal facebook photos of Racknine President Matt Meier released.
source: http://thecanadianpoliticalscene.blogspot.com/2012/02/ndp-leaks-more-links-between-racknine.html?m=1

A slew of former employees at a call centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., revealed on Monday they were using a script to make live calls on behalf of the Conservative party direction voters to goto wrong polling stations.
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/28/robocalls-probe-centres-on-disposable-burner-cellphone-linked-to-guelph-black-ops/

First election scandal casualty: Democracy
source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/27/first-election-scandal-casualty-democracy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=First+election+scandal+casualty%3A+Democracy

February 27th 2012- The word is "script." And we're not talking about the Oscars here. source: http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2012/02/script.html#.T0un-seMCJM.facebook

February 27th 2012- "I made misleading election calls for the Tories: Call centre workers speak out." source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/27/i-made-misleading-election-calls-for-the-tories-call-centre-workers-speak-out/

February 27th 2012- CBC News- Robocalls : **Confirmed** Conservative Party linked to calls directing voters to different polling stations. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/robocalls-watch-conservative-party-linked-to-calls-directing-voters-to-different-polling-stations.html

February 27th 2012
Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011 election, say call centre
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1137273--conservative-scripts-misdirected-voters-in-2011-election-say-call-centre-staff

Conservative staffer "thrown under the bus" resigns amid 'robocalls' probe
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/24/pol-robocalls-guelph-staffer.html

Harper didn't "win" by much (6201 votes is the sum of the closest 14 margins of victory in those ridings) and the cons we now know cheated...
source: http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2011/05/canada-votes-2011-margin-of-victory.html

The Conservatives won their majority with 166 seats. That's a margin of 11. That means the legitimacy of the Tory majority is in question. It's simple math.
source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Tandt+Investigation+into+robocalls+sc%C2%ADandal+must+public+biased/6212272/story.html

Easy to read list of the affected ridings.
source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/robocall-scandal-could-lead-elections-202108363.html

Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, Rona Ambrose and Tim Uppal amongst those whose campaigns paid for RackNine's auto-dial services.
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/election-robocall-data-dump---12-conservative-candidates-on-the-2011-racknine-client-list.html

Misleading election campaign robocalls linked to company that worked for Conservatives
source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/misleading-election-campaign-robo-calls-linked-company-worked-174209326.html

Harper, CFC and RackNine
http://www.scribd.com/sfharris/d/82574319-Harper-CFC-and-RackNine

Download docs here: http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/82589631

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Occupons Montreal - 6 part Video

Homelessness - it's closer than you think

When raised in a bourgeois middle class or when you're part of the upper class or even 1%, it's really easy to ignore the scores of homeless people that litter downtown Montreal and many indoor public spaces. Depending where you go, it can be some of Canada's natives - who's life on their reserves are even worse then being homeless downtown Montreal, or just plain Quebecois down on their luck and sometimes it's new arrivals who fail to navigate through the maze of social services.  Many don't realize this but many new arrivals suffer from PTSD and many have witnessed crimes no human should see. Not to say this doesn't also happen to the locals, but many of those destitute are people who need help, NOT tickets from the city!

Sure a percentage of the homeless have either drug, alcohol or mental health issues, but what does this say about our society, when not only do we not provide help to the downtrodden but instead impose fines on them for loitering, drunk and disorderly, public urination, and lord knows what  other petty crimes they may be doing. Some actually go to antagonize homeless guys to find an excuse to toss them in jail. I'd much rather pay for more shelters then more jails personally!

Article in La Presse this morning talks about the problem with the city of Montreal and it's abuse of  tickets. 

What is frightening having now known several  young men [men in their 30's] who have ended homeless, is to realize how  close any of us are to being homeless. It doesn't take that much when you're already on the edge to lose it all.  If you're lucky and you have friends, they let you couch surf until you're back on your feet, or if you have family.  But sometimes your family are losers and your friends have all double-crossed you so where do you go?

And then people wonder why we Occupy? I mean corruption at Entrelacs is basically aimed at getting rid of the poorest residents of the area, those on welfare and other social programs. 

Here's another interesting link that discusses homelessness and housing crisis across Canada. 

Anti Bill C11 promo video

IS police brutality on the rise in Montreal ?

I have no statistics on the matter, but I know what recently happened. I know we had a vigil for Farshad Mohammadi, he was homeless and was the first death in Montreal in 2012  - shot by SPVM. They claimed he had a knife. What? 2 trained police officers cannot disarm a man with a knife without killing him? 

Then I heard about the student protest, where police got brutal with them, never mind the protest yesterday morning at Tour de la bourse where some of my friends got pepper sprayed! 

This morning I go read in our media team group and someone is telling us that the SPVM shot one of his best friends. The man was suicidal. Wow so the police shot him. Article here. We'll be organizing a vigil for him and against police brutality. May he rest in peace.

Happy Valentines day

I should have written this earlier today... 

At 5:30 today, at Berri-UQAM there is a Marche a l'amour - where poems will be read. 

Also at 5:30 today, at Cabot Square [Atwater metro] there is a Memorial march for disappeared and murdered indigenous women. This is the 3rd year for this event in Montreal. 

At 6pm in front of St James the Apostle Anglican church on the corner of Bishop and SteCatherine there is a silent stand for all the fallen heroes of the Syrian revolution.

Last but not least, apparently at McGill there is a large group of protesters that have entered the downtown campus through the Roddick Gates. Wonder what is going to happen if anything? 

C-11 Protest in Montreal Friday February 10th, 2012

C-11 protest in Montreal. Now I have Welcome to the Jungle stuck in my head :P

City of Montreal claims it cost them a fortune to take down Occupy Montreal

Here is the thing, they kept much of the equipment they took that day and I can't help but wonder how much money they could have recouped if they had sold the materials. Because they certainly didn't give us back our things as promised.  Read more about the story here.

Corruption a Entrelacs - video

Video of vigil for Farshad Mohammadi

Here is the video for the vigil of Farshad Mohammadi, the homeless man shot by the SPVM. Amusingly we were one of the first people at the event, and the police officer in charge of supervising the event came to ask who was in charge of the event and if we had an itinerary. I told him that as far as I knew, we were going to stand there for one hour and then disperse, and that the organizers were not there yet. They did show up but were about 15 minutes late probably due to the snow. It was hell walking in those conditions.

Mind you I'm of the mindset that if it's downtown somewhere it walkable. So I take the train to Gare Centrale and walk anywhere I need to go. That day I figured we had a window of opportunity to go get hubby his doc martens. So we walked from Gare Centrale to St Denis a bit above Sherbrooke to Rio [or was it X20 I can never remember] and then walked back to the SPVM headquarters for the vigil holding boots.

He loves his new docs and finds them really comfortable and warm. I like the fact that though they are just leather boots, unlined, often I find them warmer then winter boots. Unless I'm going to be outside long, I prefer wearing docs.

I also love my new docs. I have 20 hole docs that go to my knees, but I don't find those practical for certain activities, though I love them for going to protest marches. For camping and other activities I prefer 8 hole docs. The pair I got back in the 90s were so dead, though I keep them for camping. So I ended up taking a pair of floral doc martens home with me. Did I mention I love them? I've had several people say that they were so me :)

Case dropped against journalist

This story makes me realize that if you are going to photograph or videograph interactions with the police you should make sure to have witnesses, otherwise they might change the facts to charge you even if you did nothing wrong. See this article from the Gazette today.

Sabotage by stupidity

It sucks that sadly when involved with a leaderless movement, you also end up with idiots who sabotage because they are too dense to realize what they are doing. 

A bunch of us have been working relentlessly on the Entrelacs project only to have a few unicorns think that bringing an GA to Entrelacs is a good idea. I'm not sure on what planet it's a good idea. The best part is they think they are bringing democracy to Entrelacs, what they are bringing is one way of seeing things, if it was democracy, there would have been a vote done in the Entrelacs group - and with the whole group, not just one person with 2 new arrivals. 

The whole GA concept hasn't been working for Montreal but let's bring it to a small town and show them how it's done!?!?! Yeah. Sure whatever.  The people involved in Entrelacs up to now have been doers, not GAers but let's bring in the deadbeats who will spend the next couple of months talking while the municipality bowls over it's residents.

Here's the thing, the 1% isn't afraid because they know the infighting in the end will win!

Update on Entrelacs "tent" situation

Currently Occupons Entrelacs is occupying both on Tony and on his neighbours land. The army tents are on his neighbours property.  Well you see the letter below from the city, the neighbour never received one. So of course they are singling out Tony again. 

Tony and one of the occupiers went around Entrelacs and took photo's of 8 other folks with roulottes on their properties and who probably have not received a notice from the town.