Terror in Caledonia

An instrument of inequality

By Klaus Rohrich

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The ongoing standoff in Caledonia, Ontario between native protesters and the town's people is a shining example how in Canada we have willingly adopted two different applications of the law. When native protesters occupied a housing development under construction in Caledonia, the Ontario Provincial Police at the behest of their political masters, stood by and idly watched, even as native protesters physically assaulted members of the media and in one case, a group of U.S, border patrol officers who had come to observe the protest.

Gary McHale held in jail with no charges

By Judi McLeod

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Gary McHale, as far as is known the first Canadian citizen kept overnight in an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Cayuga jail—without charges of any kind laid against him---was released by a Justice of the Peace this morning.

In a Hamilton court bail hearing by videotape from Cayuga, the crown attorney, the duty counsel and the justice of the peace all registered surprise that McHale had been held overnight without any official charges made against him.

"We have no jurisdiction against this man," Justice of the Peace Kerry Boone announces on the tape of McHale, flanked by two police officers.

Ontario—yours to recover

By Judi McLeod

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Something changed in the Province of Ontario on Saturday. And that something changed Ontario forever.

A motley crew who turned out to protest at the aboriginal-occupied Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia was determined to peacefully place Canadian flags at the same site where aboriginal flags proudly fly.

Three protesters—including protest leader Gary McHale—were arrested as they made their way to a government and police declared "no-go" zone at the site.

Flag bearer Mark Vandermass was wrestled to the ground by officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The Canadian flag he so proudly carried was ripped from his hands as he was crossing into the designated buffer zone. Ending in the dirt, the flag was rent in two during the scuffle.

OPP free two Caledonia protesters, keep Gary McHale in custody overnight

By Judi McLeod

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Some five and a half hours after her husband Gary McHale was led away in handcuffs by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), his 45-year-old wife Christine was keeping a lonely and worried vigil in Caledonia, Ontario.

"I'm all churned up inside, mostly worried about that they won't feed Gary, who suffers from Crohn's Disease," Mrs. McHale, told Canada Free Press.

The OPP--your tax dollars at work

Hard to believe that until February 2005, the small town of Caledonia was small town proud of taking over--per capita--the coveted number one spot on the Growing Towns of Canada List.

With its population of 10,000 souls and storybook small town lifestyle, Caledonia, is the kind of place where people come to escape the big city. Picturesque in gazebos, rose trellises, and white picket fences, until last winter there were few better places than Caledonia in which to raise a family.

But that was all before Six Nation protesters took over a construction site at the Douglas Creek Estates.

Yesterday, the Toronto Police Force announced the arrest of eight people who are now facing charges in relation to the shootout that broke out on Yonge Street on Boxing Day. When the bullets stopped flying, several people were left injured and 15-year-old student Jane Creba lay dead on Toronto’s main street on busiest shopping day of the year. The arrests should allow us reflect not only on the fact that we have a good police force but that some Ontarians have police in name only.

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Mike Running Bear