G8 2010 - Canada

G8/G20 security bill to hit $833 million

from gipfelsoli, 25 May 2010: "CANADA: CTV News has learned that Ottawa expects to spend $833 million on security for next month’s G8 and G20 summits. In March, the federal government had allocated $179 million for its security budget. But under new estimates that will be introduced in the House of Commons later Tuesday, these costs should increase by $654 million to a total of $833 million, officials tell CTV..." more

G8/G20: Gearing up for the biggest security event in Canadian history

via gipfelsoli, 23 February 2010: "Surpassing the Vancouver Olympics, the Pope’s visit to Toronto and even the volatile Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, officials said yesterday the G8 and G20 summits this summer will be the largest security event in Canadian history. The federal government announced last week it would host the G20 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre June 26-27, despite the city’s expressed wishes that it be at Exhibition Place. It will be preceded by the G8 in Huntsville, Ontario..." more

G20 Summit will reportedly be held at Metro Convention Centre, Toronto

from gipfelsoli, 12 February 2010: "The upcoming G20 summit will reportedly be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on what may already be one of the busiest weekends of the summer in the city. International delegates and their entourages will be gathering in the financial district on June 26 and 27th 2010..." more

Resources: Crossing the border into Canada

from olympicresistance, 19 January 2010: "As the Olympics approach, American and Canadian Border Services Agencies (Homeland Security and CBSA) have teamed up to tighten what they call "security," particularly along the BC/Washington border. This means not only an increased level of militarization at border crossings, but also an intensification in the profiling of "suspicious persons." Border agencies are working hard to expand their range of targets from migrants, people of colour and indigenous people, to political dissidents at large..." more

An invitation: from Copenhagen to Toronto 2010

via afj, 24 December 2009: "The Group of 8 Leaders (G8) and the Group of 20 (G20) leaders are meeting in Ontario, from the 25th to the 27th of June, 2010. Following the collapse of the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, they will be discussing the global economy, development and climate change. These gatherings are about trying to fix capitalism, a system that cannot be fixed; about creating unsustainable market responses to ecological catastrophe that reinforce systems of oppressions; about ensuring the continued exploitation of people of color and the South and about celebrating war as a means to create puppet allies to maintain imperialist power..." more

Newswires: G8 Summits

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires about the G8 summits due to be held in Italy in 2009, in Canada in 2010. Keywords: Aquila, Abruzzo, G8, Hokkaido, Toya, Sapporo, Heiligendamm... more

Canada: Details on 2010 G8 security may come next month says local mayor

from email, 5 February 2009: "Huntsville mayor Claude Doughty says details about the security to be in place for the 2010 G8 Summit could come as early as the end of next month..." more

Resistance 2010! The links between the G8, SPP, the Olympics and local struggles

from email, 25 November 2008: People's Global Action (Montreal) & the Popular Education Committee of the Autonomous Social Center presents: Popular Education Workshops and Discussions, October-December 2008 ++++ Monday, DECEMBER 1st at 7pm - Resistance 2010!: The links between the G8, SPP, the Olympics and local struggles... more

Canada: Call Out from Resistance 2010! August 2008

from email, 21 August 2008: In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between February 12-28); the G8 Leader's Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)" (date and location not yet known). Already, groups and individuals on the West Coast have come together under the banner of "No Olympics on stolen native land." They have been organizing and raising awareness, from an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspective, against the 2010 Olympics, for several years.  more

Common Cause interviews Pete St-Antoine of Peoples Global Action (PGA) Bloc Ottawa

from roadnetwork, 19 March 2008: There are lots of reasons we’re opposing the Olympics. One of the main ones is that they’re happening on stolen (aboriginal) land... There’s also the gentrification aspect that’s going on in the city of Vancouver. Poor people are being pushed out of the city. Low-income housing is being torn down... People are dying in the streets to so it seems foolish to be wasting so much money on some games. We’re resisting the games for issues of environment; for issues of race; for issues of class; and all of those things interacting. more

Countdown To 2010: Night march against the 2010 Olympics, the G8 and the SPP

from ROAD Network, 5 February 2008: "For years people have been resisting the G8 and the Olympics, and last year saw a major convergence against the SPP. On February 12th 2008 PGA Ottawa is launching its “Capital Punishment 2010" campaign, aimed at disrupting business as usual for the corporations profiting from the Olympics, the SPP and the G8 summit..." more

Ottawa: Regional People's Global Action strategy meeting

from ROAD, Canada, 9 January 2008: In 2010, Canada will host the Winter Olympics, the G8 meetings, and will participate in a major Security and Prosperity Partnership summit. PGA Bloc Ottawa invites all anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-oppression groups to join us in Ottawa on January 19th-20th to build a collective strategy for confronting the agenda of capitalist war and occupation, both at home and abroad, that these three institutions represent. more

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