After two and a half months — and, still, ahead of schedule — Concordia University’s moratorium on Middle-East-related public events and information tables came to an end this week. The ban was imposed after a planned appearance by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was cancelled due to campus protests. The Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) group at Concordia had pre-planned a major event for Monday when the ban officially lifted.

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Condominiums, gentrification and socialhousing regained media headlines in Montreal earlier this week aftersuspicious packages were found at various condominium development sites ineast end Montreal on Monday. A previously unknown group called the“Anti-Gentrification Committee” claimed responsibility in a communiquésent to members of the mainstream media by e-mail.

“This action aims to denounce the construction of [condos] in the thirdpoorest neighborhood in Canada,” the communiqué said.

“We need low-cost housing.

An extreme rightwing Web page lists progressive, radical and cultural groups in Montreal and Quebec City, calling them “enemies of our people and our race.” The list includes addresses, telephone numbers and, in some cases, specific names. There are also photos of individuals and buildings.

The content of the La Droite Nationaliste Website (Nationalist Right) is entirely in French.

About 75 demonstrators gathered in the mainhall of the Central Train Station in Montreal in an Anti-Canada Dayprotest against CN Rail.

NEW YORK CITY, February 4, 2002 — Several days of demonstrations. Over 200 total arrests. Through it all, thousands of protesters in the streets of Manhattan focused on Enron and Argentina as they voiced opposition to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

“They are Enron, we are Argentina!” was the popular chant today outside the offices of Andersen Consulting, the corporate accounting firm accused of “cooking the books” for the now-bankrupt energy conglomerate Enron Corporation.

MONTREAL: It's been almost two weeks since a group of 500 street youth, punks, anti-poverty and social housing activists, anarchists and their supporters marched through downtown Montreal and literally broke into and re-appropriated an abandoned three-story building on Overdale Street, just around the corner from the Molson Centre.

The public education campaign and squatting action were timely in many respects.

Earlier this summer, even mainstream papers were openly talking about the cit

After more than two-and-a-half years, all charges against me related tothe Summit of the Americas in Quebec City (April 2001) have beendropped.

Last week, Judge Beaulieu of the Quebec Superior Court ordered a stay ofproceedings in response to pre-trial motions I made for unreasonabledelay and abuse of process. A three-week jury trial that was to begin inJanuary 2004 — which would have involved a huge effort in terms ofwork, expenses and logistics — has now been cancelled.