UPDATE: January 3. From: CTV.ca

Experts question investigation

Michel Drapeau, a retired Canadian colonel who practises law in Ottawa, he's concerned about the time lapse between the alleged incident and the date of the charges.

"I can't believe that you'd be able to suffocate this kind of report for two-and-a-half months . . . unless you wanted to," he told CTV News.

"Was there a conspiracy along the way? Did everybody agree not to talk about it, not to report it? Everybody under the National Defence Act has a positive duty to report a crime when they see it."

World court inquiry sought in Afghan rapes

December 15, 2008
From Torontostar.com

The International Criminal Court should probe allegations some Canadian officers serving in Afghanistan told subordinates to look the other way when Afghan soldiers and local interpreters sodomized young boys, says one of Canada's leading human-rights lawyers.

In Solidarity with the Uprising in Greece

Thursday, December 25 2008
"The Occupation of the Polytechnic ended at midnight of the 24th of December – The struggle continues…

After Five and a Half Years, Show Trial to begin for Adil Charkaoui - without evidence

Starting Tuesday, December 9th, Adil Charkaoui will be subjected to part of the public portion of his Secret Trial, though it has just been revealed that CSIS has failed to provide evidence even to the court, let alone to Adil and his lawyers.
[Read More: -Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui-]

Watch this piece for footage and interviews from the AW@L Spirit Train blockade, and for background and context on the 2010 Resistance Movement.

Endorsement of ABL Demands & Letter to Stephen Harper

THE FOLLOWING LETTER HAS BEEN SENT TO PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AND cc'd TO MINISTERS LAWRENCE CANNON and CHUCK STRAHL:
November 19, 2008

To Prime Minister Stephen Harper,

This letter is written with regard to actions being taken today by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake on their traditional territory. We want to make it clear that we endorse both the actions being taken and the list of community demands represented below.

Action Update:Click Here, and Here. For info on the SPP visit: No SPP and AW@L's Understanding the SPP - Following the Paper Trail

In Coordination with the Pan-Canadian Day of Action against the War in Afghanistan, Activists from AW@L hang Banners off of Buildings, Billboards and Overpasses

Banner drop at WLU

Press Release
October 18, 2008

Some pictures from the action are available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31364758@N07/sets/72157608006181263/
BREAKING NEWS
For Immediate Release
October 12, 2008

Rail blockade backs up trains across the country in an escalation of resistance to the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympic games

Toronto, Ontario – Moments ago a group of activists from Toronto, Waterloo, London, Kitchener, Guelph, and 6 Nations ended a blockade on Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway’s train tracks in opposition to the Spirit Train.

BREAKING NEWS For Immediate Release
October 12, 2008

Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit Train
“Six Nations and solidarity activists resist Olympic theft of Indigenous land, ecological destruction, and attacks on the poor”