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Lessons for Occupy Ottawa: Figuring out who’s the real enemy
In one of his plays, George Bernard Shaw has a character say that anyone under the age of 30 who has any knowledge of the existing order and isn’t a revolutionary is heartless fool. On the other hand,...
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Occupy Ottawa Will Discover Canadian Winter
It’s quite easy to live outdoors in the spring, summer and fall. However winter camping is something completely different and an activity that takes real planning, knowledge and skill. And it’s boring...
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Move Your Tents Now, NCC Tells Occupy Ottawa
This is the letter being distributed by the National Capital Commission to protesters in Confederation Park: NOTICE To all persons: The National Capital Commission (NCC), the registered owner of the...
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Pepper-spray fallout
Remember Tyler Cameron, the aide to Conservative MP Brian Storseth, who hoped that the handful of protesters in Confederation Park would be pepper-sprayed last night? Today he protected his tweets so...
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The Occupy movement: how did we get here?
How did the Occupy movement go from complaining about the excesses of capitalism to trying to overthrow it entirely? It’s hard to believe how the Occupy movement changed from its inception in New York...
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Lemay to Watson: ‘Sent you my pin can you send me yours?’
When my colleague Neco Cockburn filed an access-to-information request to the National Capital Commission to find out how its officials dealt with the Occupy Ottawa protest in Confederation Park, he...
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