Monday night, bylaw officers in Calgary appeared at the Occupy camp in Olympic Plaza, tearing down unoccupied tents and issuing tickets. Many protestors have been given a court summons.

The Occupy Edmonton group has presented a letter with a list of demands.

8 things we need to see in order for us to leave willingly:

1. We want to see our government officials actually come and participate in general assemblies and the occupation. We want to see them interact with our movement rather than try to ignore, disregard or actively try to undermine it.

2. If the City of Edmonton can give over $100 million in subsidies to a billionaire conglomerate, we should also be able to invest in City services, not cut them. We would like to see the $10.5 million in City service cuts eliminated and the property-tax hike apply not only to Edmontonians, but to the Katz group as well.

3. We want to see an end to the corporate influence over our democratic process. In Alberta this means ending the cozy relationship the government has with the oil industry. We want independent monitoring, a fair royalty regime, and an end to the open-door policy that the government has with oil representatives. We want a government, not a public relations firm.

4. We want to see wages, pensions, employment insurance, social assistance, workers compensation, AISH and disability benefits at minimum indexed to the average increases in salary and bonuses for the top ten CEOs in this country. We also want to see the gap between the richest 100 Canadian CEO salaries ($6.6 million in 2009) and the minimum wage decrease.

5. We want to see fully funded public health care and pharmacare programs.

6. We want to see free post-secondary education. Education is a right and anyone that has the desire to better themselves by going to college or University should be able to do so regardless of income and without being saddled with a huge student debt.

7. We want to see all Free Trade agreements adhere to the country with the most stringent environmental and labour laws, not the worst. (For example, NAFTA's Chapter 11, giving corporations in one country the right to sue a foreign government over 'potential loss of profits', regardless of the environmental consequences, should be abolished.)

8. Canada signed the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; now we want our government to implement it by giving our First Peoples all the rights contained within it, including the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent on all energy developments on Indigenous Territory.


Read the rest of the letter from the Occupy Edmonton group.

B.C. granted injunction to remove Occupy Vancouver tents by 5 p.m. local time: bit.ly

BREAKING NEWS: Police sources have told Global News that they are formulating a plan to remove Occupy Toronto protesters in the pre-dawn hours on Wednesday.

Police may have help from the weather when removing protestors. Freezing rain expected tonight.

Spoke with a few occupiers, they are wet, cold and wanting this process to speed up #OccupyTO

Toronto police have blocked intersections surrounding St James park #OccupyTO

Police have line king St at the foot of St James park #OccupyTO

Police asking occupiers to leave park via north east corner. Haven't seen anyone move #OccupyTO

Follow @KrisReyes @mackaytaggart @liemvu and @adamfrisk for #OccupyTO updates.

Members of the church reportedly sang 'We Shall Overcome' to Toronto police.

Ottawa police ejected the final 25 occupiers from Confederation Park at 2 a.m. Eight ppl were arrested. One was transferred to hospital complaining of a preexisting injury.