Brutality Canada

More Articles from 2000

Read a report of outrageous racist police wrong doing in Vancouver, British Columbia, published by the BC LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS (BCLAC).

Read about legalized misuse of police authority in Victoria, wiretap surveillance by law enforcement and in Edmonton, child prostitution laws.

Up on Parliament Hill, a man is arrested for assault when a cop gets whipped cream on him. Some people would argue that police "brutality" was not involved here but police are continuing to abuse their authority up on the Hill and everywhere when it comes to the War on Drugs. This incident is like the proverbial icing on the cake or tip of the iceberg or in this case, whipped cream off the pie.

In San Diego, a conference of international police chiefs calls for image makeover. Do they ever have a lot of work to do!!

In Toronto Four cops charged in beating death of Otto Vass but will they be convicted???
 
Find out why the Pussy Palace Picket Protest in Toronto.
 
See Bob Olsen's report on Toronto cops' ongoing War on the Homeless.

Read a report about fraudulent traffic tickets in Calgary.

In Montreal, police attack protesters outside the g20 convention. Journalists are none too pleased with the treatment they received either, in Montreal and in Toronto.
Read a series of articles about biker clubs and Quebec anti-gang legislation.

Since early August, police in Newfoundland have shot three people, all of whom were described as "mentally ill". Two of them died. See the names on the Names Page.

Articles from the Ottawa Citizen as Ottawa Police shoot man dead and Eight shot dead in 10 Years.

Read an interesting discussion comparing Australian and Canadian police and the way citizens respond!

For UPDATES on Burnt Church, see the Links Page
Also more articles further down this page.

Elsewhere, in Quebec, Algonquin First Nations are under seige as Domtar set to clearcut La Verendrye Wilderness.

Ottawa Police use Taser gun on depressed individual

See the article from the Ottawa Citizen.

Mel's Flawed Law and Order Ticket

- Sept.2000 -
"Mel Lastman says he is campaigning for re-election as Toronto Mayor based on a law and order ticket. Yet a new document on his past programs of Target Policing and CAP reveals Mel's law and order agenda to be a failure, cruel to the poor and racial minorities, and fatally flawed in many other areas."
Now that he has been re-elected, you may want to read - Who's the Target?
(An Evaluation of Community Action Policing by the Committee to Stop Targeted Policing)
Posted on the Target Policing Opposed web page.
 
Click here for the report.

See a Police Tribunal Hearing case about Credibility

Two Ontario residents are shot by police in Ottawa and St. Catharines.

Read a chilling report on conditions and treatment in Ontario's jails.

See the journalists response to the CSIS report on protesters and find the link to the report.

As DFO and RCMP attack Burnt Church Mikmaq, Ontario is poised to bring in forfeiture legislation.

OPP to probe death in Nova Scotia jail cell as Ottawa man's sister wants to know why police failed to offer medical help

If you are an online activist, you might want to read this report by HateWatch.org about harassment and intimidation in cyberspace.

Read about a recent death in Millbrook Correctional Center near Peterborough and the resultant protest over immigration issues.

In Vancouver, the authorities have taken children from their parents homes during raids for marijuana growing operations. These children are quite often Vietnamese. Read the entire article at Cannabis Culture archives

See the full report on the Toronto Protest against Police Brutality at Citizens on the Web

August 16: Protests Begin Over Beating Death of Otto Vass
Toronto: Man dies after Police Beating

Early reports of police brutality towards Ottawa's homeless

Update on OCAP arrests - August, 2000 - Now a banner is a weapon! but then bail conditions declared unconstitutional in September! What a confusing court system we have!

Statement from the June 13th Committee
on Police Harassment and Repression- Aug.2000

Policing and brutality are certainly issues in the Toronto election, especially as this article is being posted just as a local man was brutally beaten to death by four policemen. The June 13 Committee has sent out a detailed post on policing issues - it covers harassment of gays, repression of political action groups, the Black community, Raves and it calls for mutual support and common action.
- read the report on the megacity election opinion page at Megacityelection.com part of Citizens on the Web

Read Beating victim got what he deserved and see how some people in Ottawa think...
 
In Toronto, Police Brutality Routine in St. Jamestown,
 
See what Toronto's cops and politicians are up to!
 
More on Toronto politicians and cops in bed together
 
Several articles on the Jacobs Inquest in Alberta posted to this site;
 
a section on Surveillance, Violence and Police Brutality;
 

See Pattern of Post-Chase Police Abuse Condemned: Videotape of Philadelphia fits nationwide pattern at Human Rights Watch.

Coverage of the Mikmaq/DFO standoff

While the talks between the feds and the Mikmaq Nation have stalled, there are Solidarity protests and blockades throughout the country. Last night, September 22, the DFO moved in and took more lobster traps placed there by the Burnt Church Mikmaq in accordance with their own conservation guidelines to catch lobster until October 15. The non-Native fishermen are demanding one set of rules for all yet the Mikmaq catch is about 1% of the total lobster fishing. Someone is being bullies here and it is the Government of Canada in the form of Minister Dhaliwal and his henchmen in the DFO. Call your politicians and blast em for this outrageous escalating violence against aboriginal people!

See the messages and report from the Aboriginal Rights Coalition on the situation at Burnt Church Mikmaq (Esgenoopetitj) First Nation.

August 19: Near Digby, N.S., Micmacs and the DFO
"They rammed my boat and jumped on board and arrested my fellow crew members," said Donnie Jeans, skipper of the boat.

"They slammed them on to the floor and handcuffed them and took them to jail."

While the situation heated up in Nova Scotia yesterday, tensions eased in Burnt Church, N.B....Read the rest of the articles from the Halifax Daily News.
Read the article in Native News.