October in Review  Pipeline problems, grand jury resistance, joke job act and celebrity arrests THE "JUSTICE" SYSTEM  The federal government has cancelled the contracts of all part-time non-Christian prison chaplains, purportedly for an estimated savings of $1.3 million per year, while a $2 billion prison expansion program will go ahead. A spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews stated that "changes were necessary so that this program supports the freedom of religion of inmates while respecting taxpayer dollars." Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Jewish and other non-Christian inmates will be expected to rely upon Christian prison chaplains. FIRST PEOPLES' RESISTANCE In honour of the approximately 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, an unprecedented number of vigils took place on October 4th. The seventh annual Sisters in Spirit day was marked by over 170 events across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bolivia and Germany.Within 15 days, Uashat-Maliotenam Innu erected two blockades on a supply road to a major northern Quebec Hydro dam. The communities say they have been "systematically excluded from talks related to Quebec’s Northern Plan to develop natural resources." Four people were arrested after the second blockade of the only highway northeast of Quebec City, but the group remains defiant in their opposition to mining, forest and energy resource extraction occurring on their land.A rally was held in Montreal in support of two elders who were arrested this summer for opposing logging on their lands. Traditional Algonquin Elders Louise Wawatie and her brother Joseph Wawatie were in court after being charged for standing in front of logging equipment operated by Resolute on Algonquin land in northern Quebec.The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced its decision to license an advanced uranium exploration project in Eeyou Istcheem, James Bay Cree territory. In the face of the decision, the James Bay Cree Nation has affirmed its commitment to the moratorium on all uranium exploration, mining and waste disposal in Eeyou Istchee declared by the Grand Council of the Crees in August.

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