{"id":236556,"date":"2016-04-07T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/garda-canadas-blackwater\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:19:42","slug":"garda-canadas-blackwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/garda-canadas-blackwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda:  Canada\u2019s \u201cBlackwater\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"176.4060095273\">\n<p>Last week students at L\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM) disrupted a board meeting after learning administrators planned to sign a $50 million, seven-year, contract with security giant GardaWorld. Protesters are angry the administration has sought to expel student leaders and ramp up security at the politically active campus as they cut programs.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest privately held security firm, Garda is open about its need for repressive university, business and political leaders. The Montr\u00e9al firm\u2019s chief executive, Stephan Cretier, called the 2012 Qu\u00e9bec student strike \u201cpositive\u201d for business. \u201cNaturally, when there\u2019s unrest somewhere \u2013 the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/04\/garda-canadas-blackwater\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week students at L\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM) disrupted a board meeting after learning administrators planned to sign a $50 million, seven-year, contract with security giant GardaWorld. Protesters are angry the administration has sought to expel student leaders and ramp up security at the politically active campus as they cut programs. The world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}