Canadian police have arrested over 900 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city’s history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center.
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This is the latest issue of our trilingual journal The Stone in the Shoe, released in Spring 2010. In this issue: - Liliana Obando: A new witch-hunt against the Political Opposition in Colombia - Extradition : War on terrorism and drug trafficking ? - Sept ans de "sécurité démocratique"...
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40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION.Standing Committee on International Trade EVIDENCE # 1600, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Ms. Dawn Paley (Journalist, As an Individual): Thank you for inviting me here this afternoon. My name is Dawn Paley and I'm a journalist based in Vancouver. I've travelled to Colombia twice, for a total of about three months, and I've spent a great deal of time researching Canada's relationship with Colombia from here.
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Visitors subjected to degrading searches at “Buen Pastor” women’s prison in Bogotá The International Network in Solidarity with all Colombian Political Prisoners, INSPP supports the call for action initiated by the Political Prisoners held at The Buen Pastor Women's Prison and supported by Beyond the Walls.
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If CSIS comes knocking... A community advisory from the People's Commission Network Updated May 2010 - Montreal
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HIGH SECURITY PRISON; COMBITA, BOYACA, COLOMBIA; MAY 2010
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In this article, we describe Canada as a mineable power. At a domestic level, laws controlling this activity are extremely permissive and political authorities provide multiple supports to this field. For this reason, we determine the Canadian Miner-State jurisdiction, in other words, a State permitting a mineable oligarchy enrichment placing the state machine at its service. Canada, an international mineable leader, is searching to spread its own pattern beyond its frontiers.
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