April 1, 2005 
Nunatsiaq News Editorial (http://nunatsiaq.com/)

The once-mighty animal rights movement is trying to bring back its glory days.

In an attempt to revive the influence it once wielded in the 1970s and 1980s, a coalition of animal rights extremists, led by the Humane Society of the U.S., launched a vitriolic campaign against the Newfoundland seal hunt last month with a series of demonstrations in cities around the world and a threatened boycott of Canadian fish products.

As always, they say they're not targeting the eastern Arctic seal hunt. But as the Inuit of the eastern Arctic know well, when Newfoundland seal hunters are attacked, Inuit seal hunters get hurt too.

 Apr 19 2005 CBC News

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD  —  A senior member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – which has spent the last month campaigning against the East Coast seal hunt – says violence is necessary to bring the seal industry to an end.

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Apr 19 2005
CBC News

WINNIPEG – Some members of Tataskweyak Cree Nation say they've been kept in the dark about a recent trip by two band members and executives from Manitoba Hydro to the World Bank in March.

The delegation traveled to Washington, D.C. to make a 90-minute joint presentation at the World Bank about the proposed Keeyask dam on the Nelson River. The presentation was called "Benefit-sharing with Indigenous People on Hydro Dam Developments: the Case of Manitoba Hydro."

If the Tatskweyak band agrees to go ahead with the project, the 640-megawatt Keeyask dam would export power to the United States by 2012. The dam would cost $3.5 billion to build and would flood 46 square kilometres of land.

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 We are pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of Upping the Anti, a new journal of theory and action devoted to the debates and discussions taking place within anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-oppressive movements. With a three person editorial collective and an advisory board of over twenty activists from across Canada (including two Advisory Board members in Saskatoon and two Editors who hail from the Queen City!), we have created a new, broadly-based journal to address various problems and successes of radical organizing in our communities.

from the May 2, 2005 issue of The Nation (Taken from Commondreams.org)

By Naomi Klein

Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate "post-conflict" plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries "at the same time," each lasting "five to seven years."

Fittingly, a government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction.

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 CBC News

The Haida Nation has set up blockades around B.C.'s Queen Charlotte Islands, demanding it be consulted over forestry operations and land-use issues.

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As of April 6, Grandmothers and Mothers of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Ojibway Nation of Saugeen have erected a blockade, which will serve as a gathering place, to prevent the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (OMNDM), and Bowater Corporation, from continuing the development known as the St. Raphael Signature Site. The proposed development threatens their Traditional Territory, and the right of future generations to continue to live as traditional peoples.