CBC ManitobaMay 28
Group removes squatters from Spence neighbourhood building's stairwells to make way for transitional housing
An outreach group working with a property owner hopes to convert an apartment block in the city's Spence neighbourhood with a troubled history into a mix of safer transitional and permanent housing.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/west-end-apartment-transitional-housing-9.7213789?cmp=rss
Global News OkanaganMay 11
Province issues eviction notices to Peachland squatters amid fire risk concerns
The encampment has grown significantly over the past year, raising concerns among nearby residents and local officials about wildfire risk and environmental contamination.
#Canada #CentralOkanagan #Fairviewhomelessencampment #Peachlandsquattercamp
https://globalnews.ca/news/11841501/province-issues-eviction-notices-peachland-squatters-fire-risk-concerns/
Nicholas A. FerrellMay 6

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of ‘The God Delusion’ — Believes AI Is Conscious (Scott Pinsker for PJ Media. May 5, 2026.) My conscious brain is struggling to decide which of many possible one-liners to go with. Let us keep it simple and just say that I guess Mr. Dawkins is taking a leap of faith in the pages of UnHerd. […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-05-06-26/

[Note] Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of…

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Peter RileyApr 19

@viacampesina

Those dreams — of land, of dignified labor — echo far beyond Brazil. They underlie the struggles of India’s #Dalits, South Africa’s #squatters, and peasants from Colombia to the Philippines. That universal quality led the world’s largest coalition of rural movements, La #VíaCampesina, to declare April 17 the International Day of Peasant Struggle.

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/mst-landless-workers-brazil-massacre

The Landless Workers’ Movement, 30 Years After a Massacre

Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.

Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unofficial]Apr 2

Growing squatter encampment above Peachland prompts serious safety concerns

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11757566/growing-squatter-encampment-peachland-safety-concerns/

z_4narchistMar 7
uniformed thug: come on, get up. get your stuff and leave...

us "#squatters": ...but its cold and snowing out there...

thug: im sorry, but you cant stay here. lets go. get out.

...dear "officers", enforcers, and other such folk....do you realize you are sending us to our deaths? ...that youre no better than a murderer, forcing us to wander and sleep in the icy cold?

you arent sorry....you are k1lling us.


#homeless #homelessness #thesilencecontinues
CBC Top StoriesFeb 12

Neighbours raise safety concerns after squatters take up shelter in vacant downtown St. John's home
Squatters recently took up shelter in a vacant house in downtown St. John's, raising concerns amongst neighbours who worry about fire risks and public safety.

#safety #concerns #squatters #StJohns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/neighbours-raise-safety-concerns-after-squatters-take-up-shelter-in-vacant-downtown-st-john-s-home-9.7082468?cmp=rss

CBC Newfoundland & LabradorFeb 12

Neighbours raise safety concerns after squatters take up shelter in vacant downtown St. John's home
Squatters recently took up shelter in a vacant house in downtown St. John's, raising concerns amongst neighbours who worry about fire risks and public safety.

#safety #concerns #squatters #StJohns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/neighbours-raise-safety-concerns-after-squatters-take-up-shelter-in-vacant-downtown-st-john-s-home-9.7082468?cmp=rss

Show threadNonilexFeb 6

The records confirm "the worst thoughts that we had about the operation," Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told NPR.

"This is the most brazen #unconstitutional #UseOfForce in an operation that I've seen in my entire career," he said. "They have no legal authority to be addressing purported #squatters; that is not within the purview of the #FederalGovernment."

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #CivilRights #ICE #CBP

Show threadNonilexFeb 6

But arrest records for two of the men show the government's stated reason for the raid was to take out #squatters, not #gang members. The documents were included in a motion filed in an ongoing case challenging #warrantless #arrests in #Chicago.

In the documents, #DHS stated "this operation was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua.

#Trump #law #immigration #UseOfForce