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November/December 2012 Investigative Canada’S Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies by Tim Groves Independent Media, Gentrifiers Know Government Puts Independent Funds Squat Energy into Spying The Dominion news from the grassroots Shipwrecked! Sunken ships a crude warning against tankers on BC coast p. 12 MEMBER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE MEDIA WWW.MEDIACOOP.CA/JOIN $5 issue November 2 85 December 201 www.dominionpaper.ca Contents FRONT LINES POLICY FEATURE The Dominion is a pan- by Dominion New Restrictions to The Cornerstone of Canadian media network that 3 10 17 seeks to provide a counterpoint contributors Public Information in Gentrification in the Newfoundland and Downtown East Side to the corporate media and to Labrador by Isaac Oommen & direct attention to independent by Miles Howe murray bush critics and the work of social movements. The Dominion is published six times per year in INVestigATIVE ININVVestigestigAATITIVVEE TORONTO MEDIA Canada’s Spy Groups print and on the web. 4 12 FEFEAATTURUREE 20 CO-OP Divulge Secret Intelligence Stop This Kind of to Energy Companies Sinking Ships Publisher by Erin Empey Violence The Dominion by Tim Groves by TMC contributors Newspaper Co-operative AccOUnts VAncOUVER MEDIA TORONTO MEDIA Board of Directors Maryanne Abbs (VMC) A Dead Man’s Prints CO-OP CO-OP 6 15 20 Palmira Boutillier (HMC) by Byron Christopher Many Pipelines, More Reporting as Resistance Resistance by Megan Kinch Stéfanie Clermont (CMM) by VMC contributors Crystel Hajjar (contributor) Sharmeen Khan (reader) HALIFAX MEDIA MONTREAL MEDIA IDEAS Dru Oja Jay (editor) 8 CO-OP 16 CO-OP 22 Supporting Independent Tim McSorley (editor) Anti-Drilling Protest in Turning Around Turcot Media to Grow NS Draws Hundreds, by Dawn Paley by Greg Macdougall Editorial Collective Shuts Down Highway Sandra Cuffe by Miles Howe Roddy Doucet Koby Rogers Hall Miles Howe Tim McSorley Dawn Paley Tara-Michelle Ziniuk Editors-at-Large Hillary Lindsay Member Profile Martin Lukacs This month we profile newly elected board Dru Oja Jay Moira Peters member and long-time contributor to the Coop Média de Montréal, Stéfanie Clermont. Fact Checkers Dawn Paley Arij Riahi Stefanie is among our new board members but she is no rookie, having been an integral and long- Copy Editors time volunteer with the Montreal Media Co-op. Joel Butler Sandra Cuffe She has been an active content provider for the Ashley Fortier past year, in both French and English, and through Simon Granovsky-Larsen providing regular radio reports. She was especially David Markland focused on covering the Quebec student strike this Dawn Paley past spring, producing the Red Square report. She Moira Peters has also contributed to the community through Graphic Designer offering skill share sessions on radio production Zinta Avens Auzins and editing. Cover Artist Dave Ron In her own words: “I’m excited to be a part of the board and I aim to contribute ISSN 1710-0283 more Montreal perspectives on local and national issues.” www.dominionpaper.ca Join the growing ranks of people from all walks of life who are choosing to own their media [email protected] by becoming a member today! Each and every member in our network helps make the news PO Box 741 Station H Montreal, happen. We are the Media Co-op. Go to www.mediacoop.ca/join to join us today! QC H3G 2M7 To find new subscribers, we occasionally exchange mailing lists with like-minded or- We acknowledge the financial ganizations for one-time mailings. If you prefer not to receive such mailings, please support of the Government of email [email protected], or write to the address in the masthead. Canada through the Canada 2 The Dominion is printed on Enviro100 100 per cent post-consumer paper. Periodical Fund (CPF) for our Printed by Kata Soho Design & Printing, www.katasoho.com, in Montreal. publishing activities. Front Lines Safer Streets, Anti-Oil Actions and Harper’s Hairdo Motion 312, which proposed to study the Criminal Code’s defi- Dozens of Northwest Territories residents attended a hearing nition of when life begins, was defeated 203 to 91 in the House of to express concerns about clean-up plans for the thousands of Commons. The motion could have opened the door for the crimi- tonnes of arsenic dust left behind by the Giant Mine. nalization of abortion. Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose voted in favour of the motion. After a four-year assessment, the Nunavut Impact Review Board approved Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation’s plans to build a $4 Hundreds of people rallied in Christie Pits, following a string of billion project at the top of Baffin Island, including a 17,000-hect- sexual assaults against women in the Toronto neighbourhood. are open pit iron mine, railway and port. Rallies, marches and vigils against violence against women were The new Quebec government announced that the province’s only held in cities across Canada, including Take Back the Night in nuclear power plant, Gentilly-2, will be shut down instead Sudbury and a SlutWalk protest in Winnipeg. of undergoing a $2 billion refurbishment. The Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick is still not back online despite completing refurbishment, after three years of delays. NB Power refuses to provide an explanation. Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Lake Melville Keith Rus- sell criticized some Muskrat Falls hydro-electric mega-project opponents on CBC radio, saying, “I don’t buy into the mumbo jumbo about the trail leading to the Muskrat Falls site as being sacred ground. You can romanticize and sensationalize that par- ticular piece of land all you want, but it is a resource.” Manitouwadge High School students held a protest march against Bill 115 and to support their teachers’ right to strike, in Ontario. Hamilton public high school teachers wore black to protest the imposition of a contract involving a wage freeze and a two-year strike ban. After months of Musqueam protest to protect an ancient burial ground site from condo development, the BC government changed the site’s heritage value and allowed alteration permits to expire. Lake St. Martin First Nation evacuees held a roadside camp and protest to demand solutions to their relocation and housing issues. The Manitoba reserve has been considered uninhabitable since flooding in May 2011. People hit the streets from coast to coast to attend rallies, marches and vigils against rape and sexual violence. Here, a young girl displays her sign at Take Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) representatives took Back the Night in Calgary. Photo by Tami Starlight the province and RCMP to task on policing and detention issues in the Northlands Denesuline First Nation in Lac Brochet. An internal RCMP report released through Access to Informa- The community hockey arena is being used for indiscriminate tion laws found an overwhelming perception that perpetrators detention for safety reasons, assault or drug and alcohol issues. of harassment and bullying of female officers would face no real consequences. The RCMP is facing lawsuits, including a case Mi’kmaq people set up a partial blockade of the Trans-Canada seeking class action certification, from more than 200 current Highway in Auld’s Cove, NS, the access point to Cape Breton, and former female RCMP officers and employees. in opposition to exploratory oil and gas drilling by PetroWorth Resources. Many people travelled to support the action, including Iraq war resister Kimberley Rivera was deported from Canada, an anti-fracking brigade from Halifax. A week later, an informa- separated from her family and placed in custody in the US, tion picket drew more than 200 people. despite widespread protests and organized support efforts. Posing as Stephen Harper, Quebec radio comedy duo The Masked The House of Commons Public Safety Committee recommended Avengers managed to speak with United Nations Secretary- electronic ankle bracelets for refugee claimants, in order to General Ban Ki-moon during the UN General Assembly. “Harper” reduce “the occurrence of inadmissible individuals who are not apologized for not being able to attend the meeting because he presenting themselves for removal,” according to Postmedia News. was too busy combing his hair with super glue. 3 The Dominion November/December 2012 Investigative Canada’s Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies by Tim Groves TORONTO—The Canadian government cial protection. Ten critical infrastructure has been orchestrating briefings that sectors are identified including finance, provide energy companies with classified transportation, health care and energy. intelligence from the Canadian Security For each sector a government department Intelligence Service, the RCMP and other has been charged with fostering relation- agencies, raising concerns that federal offi- ships with partners, including through the cials are spying on environmentalists and sharing of information. Natural Resources First Nations in order to provide informa- Canada (NRCan) is the lead ministry for tion to the businesses they criticize. the energy sector. The secret-level briefings have taken “These forums provide excellent place twice a year since 2005, and are opportunities for energy sector stakehold- detailed in documents obtained under the ers to develop ongoing trusting relations Access to Information Act, and in publicly- which facilitate the exchange of pertinent available government files. information ‘off the record,’” writes Felix The draft agenda for one of the brief- Kwamena, a director of energy infrastruc- ings, acquired by The Dominion, shows ture security at Natural Resources, in a that the RCMP and CSIS
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