Judge refuses to release controversial G-20 report

A court has said it won't order the release of a controversial auditor general's report into government spending during last year's G8 summit.

A Federal Court of Canada judge ruled Thursday against activists who were seeking the release of the report before Monday's election, saying the group should have filed its suit weeks earlier.

Warmington: G20 riot should never have happened

Why didn’t Chief Bill Blair and his senior command just let their officers arrest the Black Bloc when they had the chance before the rampaging began?

Turns out there was no need to sneak in any fancy wartime laws!

There are aerial pictures of these punks all huddled together.

G20 inquest to consider unlawful killing charge

Jurors at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson will consider whether the actions of a police officer amounted to unlawful killing, a coroner has said.

The jury must decide whether Pc Simon Harwood acted illegally and directly caused the death of Mr Tomlinson at the G20 protests in London on 1 April 2009.

The G-20’s Empty Gestures

The world’s 20 most important finance ministers and 20 most important central bankers traveled to Washington this month from every part of the globe to accomplish, predictably, exactly nothing.

The subject of the G-20’s recent meeting was “global imbalances.” According to the communiqué issued by the group, the meeting focused on developing a procedure for identifying which G-20 countries have “persistently large imbalances” and why they have them. This delicate analytical task was assigned to the International Monetary Fund, which is to complete its work before the ministers’ next meeting in October.

Lawsuit seeks release of G8 spending documents

An online activist group has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to order the release of a report into government spending during last year's G8 and G20 summits.

Auditor General Sheila Fraser has steadfastly refused to release the final report until after the election. However, drafts of the report that leaked to the media suggested the government misled Parliament about the true cost of the world leaders summit, held last June in Toronto and near Huntsville, Ont.

India to raise concerns over easy money policy at G-20

At the G-20 Sherpa’s meeting later this month, India is set to highlight external risks such as aggressive policy action and high public debt in advanced economies that pose a risk to its growth and create inflationary pressures.

“While domestic factors are largely conducive for maintaining a high growth, external risks such as low interest rates are leading to a surge of capital flows into India. This is ultimately leading to an asset price bubble and soaring commodity prices within the country, making it difficult to curb prices,” a finance ministry official said.

Ahead of G-20, India offers nuke help

India has proposed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it can send experts to deal with the Fukushima nuclear incident and the emerging fallouts even as G-20 countries are set to discuss a new universal framework for nuclear safety ahead of the group’s summit in Cannes in November t his year.