BRING FOOD TO LIFE CHUTNEY USED TO SPICE UP BLAND DISHES {page 32} TWO DEAD IN CRUISE SHIP FIRE OFF NORWAY’S WESTERN COAST {page 14}
LOVE CHILD JAY-Z REPORTEDLY FATHERED CHILD WITH MODEL {page 31}
OTTAWA
Weekend, September 16-18, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Sit-in planned to fight tar sands Protesters’ message to Parliament: ‘All people in Canada deserve a clean energy future that promotes climate justice, where treaty and indigenous rights are respected and the health of our communities and environment are prioritized’ JESSICA SMITH
@METRONEWS.CA
A group of environmental activists is preparing to get arrested for participating in a sit-in in the foyer of
Centre Block on Sept. 26, organizers announced in a recent letter to supporters. “We are asking each person to make a personal commitment, to weigh all the factors, and if you feel it is appropriate, to join with peo-
ple from across the country in a peaceful, arrestable civil-disobedience action on Parliament Hill,� the letter to “friends, allies, and supporters� reads. The Council of Canadians, Greenpeace Canada and the Indige-
nous Environmental Network are organizing the sit-in to protest tar sands development. The plan is “to peacefully and responsibly go through the main doors of Parliament to the foyer of Centre Block and sit down,� the let-
Ottawa. Hospital
More than 60 Ottawa Hospital sta and corporate sponsors perform a ash-mob dance to Robert Palmer’s Bad Case of Lovin’ You (Doctor, Doctor) in the food court at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre on Thursday. JOE LOFARO/METRO
ter says, adding there will be a place set aside for those “not able to risk arrest.� However, the plan is not set in stone and, depending on the response of police and Parliament security, it may change, the letter says.
Fundraiser enlists flash dancers To kick-start the White Coat Challenge fundraiser for the Ottawa Hospital, more than 60 members of the Ottawa Hospital, the Ottawa Hospital Foundation and their corporate sponsors performed in a flash-mob dance on Thursday. The goal of the fundraiser is to raise at least $250,000 to update equipment at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre that will better serve patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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