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Montreal, QC, Canada- A state of emergency was declared in Armenia on March 1st to end public demonstrations by some of the opposition led by Levon Ter Petrossian, rejecting the results of the presidential elections despite the reports of observers from OSCE, Council of Europe and EU describing the elections in line with international commitments and standards.Heavy force was used by the riot police to disperse the gatherings, followed by a day of violence and clashes resulting in the death of eight people. The clashes are the worst civil violence in Armenia's post-Soviet history.

Toronto—The Turkish Government’s propaganda machine tried to intimidate and silence many prominent Canadians who had come forth to make deputations during the  monthly meeting of the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) program and services committee.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay— Deputies from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay--all members of the South American Parliamentarians coalition, known as MERCOSUR-- adopted on Monday November 19 a resolution recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide. The meeting was held in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

Toronto, November 21—Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire (Ret.) and Aegis Trust co-founder Dr. Stephen Smith launched Aegis Canada, the Aegis Trust's Canadian wing today.

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Montreal, QC, Canada-A group among the world's foremost scholars and academics of genocide studies urged the U.S. Congress to recognize the Armenian Genocide through a petition signed and prepared at McGill University during the Global Conference on Genocide Prevention this past week-end.

Ottawa-Within hours after The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government went on the offensive and demanded the Israeli government to “deliver” American Jewish organizations and to ensure that the US Congress does not pass a resolution characterizing as genocide the massacre of Armenians during World War I.

Toronto--The Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) and the Canadian Centre for Genocide Education held the 4^th national teachers' summer institute at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto from July 23 to 27.

Ottawa- Three high-ranking Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) officials met Aris Babikian, the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) at the agency's Gatineau, Quebec headquarters on July 26 to brief the ANCC representative on CIDA projects, with particular emphasis in the Caucasus in the past four years.

Ottawa--Arat Dink, the editor of Istanbul-based Agos weekly and the son of assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and three of his colleagues at the  weekly have been charged with “denigrating Turkishness," according to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.