Archive for August, 2007



Stockwell Day, Canada’s Public Safety Minister told the opposition  to disappear today. Liberals had asked for a police probe, into the three disappearing protesters at Montebello; the NDP asked for a public inquiry.
Day rejected both parties requests.
“I’ve made the inquiries and there was no RCMP that were involved as far as those three individuals go,” Day [...]

“I don’t have any moral failures in my past, no bones in my closet,” said Boyd, adding that he was not perfect, according to Rocky Mountain News. “I have sinned, but I am not a failure.”
40 year old Rev. Brady Boyd said that from the pulpit of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Not the best [...]

Halton MP Garth Turner put up the Montebello YouTube video of bootgate (via: stageleft) and got slammed into the middle of next week in his comment section.
The Gazetteer noticed the Quebec police line had their own video cam running, the footage certainly isn’t on YouTube. He also noticed a letter from the NDP to Stockwell Day asking [...]

via: JimBobby Sez
While the story centres around Wayne Crookes of BC and his filings against major providers such as Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Wikepidia and others, bloggers are also getting hurt. The average Canadian can’t afford the legal costs (SLAPP’s: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) and Canadian law has not caught up to the internet. So [...]

There was a video.
A public analysis of boots.  
Now two police agencies responsible for security at the Montebello Summit respond.
RCMP:
RCMP Cpl. Luc Bessette said the Mounties do “not use tactics that would encourage confrontation or incite violence.”
Bessette said the RCMP cannot discuss details of security measures for major events such as the summit because “to do [...]

The Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union will be holding a news conference this afternoon. They say they have proof the three protesters in the video shot at the Montebello Summit are Surete du Quebec.
“We have proof that the three individuals who were “arrested” after being exposed as “agents provocateurs” were, in fact, members of the [...]

This is interesting.  The Star reports 3 protesters wearing bandannas and carrying weapons wandered into a section of Montebello protesters and were confronted by the protesters.
Someone shot a video which is up on YouTube. As the Canadian Cynic points out, there is a lot more credibility to these guys being undercover cops than many people discussing this [...]

MSNBC - via Globe and Mail blog
MSNBC  indentified Bush correctly in their print headline too. 1 for 3.
 



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