Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/23/police-montebello.html?ref=rss "Police said the three were told to monitor protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating to prevent any violent incidents, but they were called out as undercover agents when they refused to throw objects." To which I say "Bullshit". They were caugh
See: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/1018 The story of the social experiment conducted by the Canadian government that played with three Inuit lives. experimental_eskimos_3.720x405.jpg Barry Greenwald / Canada / 2009 / 70 min SHORT SYNOPSIS In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three 12-year-old Inuit boys were separated from their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa to live with white families and to be educated in white schools. The cons
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Jean eats seal heart CP Video Tuesday, May. 26, 2009 11:25AM EDT The Governor-General made a gesture of solidarity with the country's beleaguered seal hunters on the first day of a week-long Arctic visit Monday. Michaelle Jean ate a piece of the animal's raw heart during a community festival in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
Is the Crown at war with us? Alanis Obomsawin, 2002, 96 min 31 s In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Alanis Obomsawin casts her nets into history to provide a context for the events on Miramichi Bay.
You Are on Indian Land Mort Ransen, 1969, 36 min 48 s The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the ... [ more ] The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. By blocking traffic on the bridge, which is on the Reserve, the Indians drew public attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Can
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance Alanis Obomsawin, 1993, 119 min 15 s On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into ... [ more ] On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This po