Contributor ReportsTwo protests, two different OPP responses
Source: The Globe and Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Thu Nov 26 23:45:13 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 2:25AM EST About six weeks after the OPP refused to allow a Caledonia residents group to march down the town's main street carrying a Canadian flag and even arrested one man for doing...
Ontario Premier wanted to sweep Caledonia issue 'under the rug,' court ...
Source: The Globe and Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Thu Nov 26 00:41:16 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 2:57AM EST More than two years ago, the Caledonia family now suing the Ontario government and the OPP offered to drop their lawsuit if their MPP, Dave Levac, would personally talk to Premier...
Welcome to Caledonia, where flying the flag is asking for a fight
Source: The Globe and Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Wed Nov 25 01:39:29 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 4:01AM EST Natives who routinely and sometimes violently broke the law but nonetheless played the victim; police who wouldn't police, but dispensed private cellphone numbers and calming hugs instead; and a small town...
Julian Fantino fails to unseat judge
Source: Toronto Star
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Sat Nov 14 03:05:12 -0800 2009 | political-news
OPP chief Julian Fantino's bid to replace tribunal judge has once again been rejected. OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino may soon return to the witness stand in a controversial police disciplinary hearing, which has already cost Ontario taxpayers almost $450,000.
Caledonia pair's claims disputed
Source: Toronto Star
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Sat Nov 14 01:46:30 -0800 2009 | political-news
Smoke engulfs a minivan as it is overturned during 2006 land-claim protests near disputed Caledonia, Ont., site. A Crown lawyer says a Caledonia couple seeking $7 million in damages from the Ontario government and the OPP frequently provoked the native...
New air, ground searches in Mariam case
Source: Toronto Star
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Fri Nov 06 11:49:06 -0800 2009 | political-news
Video of Mariam Makhniashvili Toronto police have released security video showing missing teen Mariam Makhniashvili. It was taken at Union Station on Sept. 13, 2009, the day before she disappeared. (Sept. 23, 2009) Tara Walton/Toronto Star Toronto police are using...
Truckers battled smoke law - and won
Source: Toronto Star
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Thu Oct 15 01:41:10 -0700 2009 | political-news
Truckers were livid when an Ontario truck driver was fined for smoking on the job last week. But for Meyers Transport, the incident unearthed only unhappy memories. "We had exactly the same thing happen to us," said Joe Ball, vice-president...
A reign of terror, a trail of OPP inaction
Source: The Globe and Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 00:55:46 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 2:59AM EST It is the most astonishing thing, but the Ontario government is bitterly defending a lawsuit in which key police witnesses admit most of the allegations, chiefly that the OPP stood by...
In Caledonia the weak finally have a voice against the strong
Source: The Globe & Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Tue Nov 17 19:45:29 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 10:36PM EST J ohn Evans had just asked Dave Brown to describe the effects on his spirit and health of almost four years of violence, threats, bullying and neglect, in the first instance...
Government preoccupied with how suit seen by natives
Source: The Globe and Mail
Opp :: AL :: USA | updated Tue Nov 10 23:57:37 -0800 2009 | political-news
Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 2:29AM EST The Ontario government, which basically stands accused in a lawsuit of two-tier law enforcement in the native occupation at Caledonia, Ont., is now openly seeking two-tier justice for aboriginals.
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