Paul Jay of The Real News Network interviews Peter Dale Scott about the unanswered questions stemming from the events of 11 September 2001. Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His most recent books are Drugs, Oil, and War (2005), The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2007), The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War (2008) and Mosaic Orpheus (poetry, 2009).

Virtuoso oud player Rahim AlHaj is something of a musical magician. Trained in both Iraqi Maqam and western classical music, AlHaj has managed to fuse the two together while keeping his Iraqi traditions at the core.

Bringing together an eclectic ensemble of musicians from around the globe, AlHaj and his Little Earth Orchestra will take you on a mystical journey that will change the way you think about music. The performances on Little Earth (UR Music, 28 September 2010) have an immediacy that can catch you off guard at times, capturing your full attention with the strength of a gravitational force.

An investigation by The ACTivist has discovered that the University of Toronto (UT) systematically cleared student residences on its St. George campus before the June 2010 Toronto G20 summit.

Moreover, on 27 June 2010, the day following the official G20 summit opening, the Toronto Star reported that dozens of black-clad unidentified out-of-town boarders were being lodged under uncertain auspices in a UT building near Spadina Crescent.

The Star journalistic team of Popplewell and Lu considered that these lodgers included undercover police.

In 2005 General Rick Hillier, then chief of the Canadian defence staff, was quoted as saying that Canadian forces would be ruthless in pursuing terrorists in Afghanistan. “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell you that right up front. They detest our freedoms, they detest our society, they detest our liberties,” he said, parroting the Bush administration’s propaganda about the motives behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

How ruthless would Canadian forces be? Recent revelations by Canadian diplomats, Canadian Forces translators and by rank and file soldiers have revealed that Canada’s armed forces handed prisoners over to the Afghan authorities in the full knowledge that they would be tortured and, in some instances, murdered. And as we will see, despite his denials, Hillier knew full well that prisoners handed over by Canadian forces were likely to be tortured or murdered by Canada’s Afghan allies. And as we will also see, it was not only Hillier that knew. Canada’s U.S. and British allies knew, Canadian diplomats knew, and the government of Canada knew.

Ryerson University’s contentious funding agreement with Toronto-based Nuclear Waste Management Organization should be reviewed by the public at large, said the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) continues to receive calls from across Toronto regarding incidents that happened during the G20.  If you witnessed an event that you are concerned about, or feel your rights have been violated, the CCLA encourages you to contact them and to fill out an incident reporting form. The CCLA will keep the information confidential unless you specifically give them permission to report what happened.  Once it is complete, email it to the CCLA at mail@ccla.org, or fax it at (416) 861-1291.