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From rabble.ca – News for the rest of us
College and university students held a mock coroner’s inquest Thursday outside provincial government offices at 900 Bay Street in Toronto to bring attention to the “death” of social services by the McGuinty government.
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Former employees of Canwest Global Communications demonstrated Tuesday outside a downtown Toronto courthouse where lawyers are discussing what will become of their severance pay, which was locked up when the media company filed for protection from its creditors.
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VideoA vocal neighbourhood group fed up with the City using its popular park as a garbage dump took its protest all the way to City Hall Wednesday.
Members of Friends of Christie Pits Park showed up at Nathan Phillips Square carrying bags stuffed with fake garbage and placards that read, “Keep our parks beautiful” and “Parks are not dumps.”
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
This was Maryam Shoeybi’s first protest in Canada. The 34-year-old woman, who came from Tehran a year ago, had not joined the rest of her community in protesting Iran’s election results until yesterday.
What happened to her cousin in Tehran finally did it.
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VideoThe Toronto Persian community demands a re-vote.
Despite a persistent drizzle, hundreds of Iranian-Canadians gathered tonight outside the Russian Consulate to contest the legitimacy of the recent Iranian election results. They aimed slogans like “Democracy; no Russian hypocrisy,” “Moscow, Ahmadi must go,” and the now-familiar “Where is my vote?” at the consulate at the corner of Bloor and Church streets.
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A smorgasbord of labour groups congregated this afternoon outside the Delta Chelsea Hotel to call for reforms to Canada’s Employment Insurance plan.
About five hundred people attended the rally organized by Good Jobs for All, the Canadian Labour Congress and the Toronto and York Region Labour Council to call on the federal government to make it easier for unemployed workers to collect E.I. benefits.
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VideoA few dozen parents and babies brought their strollers to City Hall Tuesday to voice their displeasure over a proposed bylaw that would limit daycares in residential areas.
Parent and protester Alison Gibbins said the new bylaw would add “another barrier” to affordable and accessible day care for families in Toronto. (More …)
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Cyclists joined the ranks of the Tiananmen Square remembrance rally today at Nathan Phillips Square to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
A group of two dozen met this morning outside Urbane Cyclist and biked to the noon-hour event. Eugene Yao, who co-founded the cycling co-operative that runs the store, helped organize the bike-in, while his daughter, Yaya Yao, organized the rally at City Hall. Together, the cyclists and the protesters staged a collective “die-in” to symbolically re-enact the killing of democracy protesters 20 years ago in Beijing.
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VideoProtesters held a vigil outside a Toronto courthouse Wednesday morning in support of U.S. war resister Joshua Key.
Inside, Key faced an immigration hearing to decide whether he returns to the U.S., where he may face punishment for deserting the army. (More …)
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A man in a white car gestured impatiently as security staff at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre halted his vehicle.
“What? I can’t park?” he said, continuing his complaints as a line of black cars came into view at the parkade?s entrance and turned left, vanishing behind concrete. A white limousine brought up the rear. (More …)
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VideoAbout 1,000 people showed up Friday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto to protest the visit of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
The former presidents were speaking at a motivational seminar and were reportedly paid in the six figures. (More …)
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Amidst shouts of “George Bush, war criminal” and shoe-throwing at a portrait of the former president, a faction of the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War set up a quieter protest option across the street from the Convention Centre. No chants, just painting for a Toronto Peace Mural.
The War Resisters Support Campaign painted a couple large sheets of plywood white to serve as a free-standing canvas and invited protesters to flex a little creative muscle. Jamine Aponte is with the campaign and helped to organize the protest alongside the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War. The support campaign is there to help men and women who have sought refuge in Canada rather than fight in Iraq. Aponte thinks that one of the most important things we can do is ban together to show support . (More …)
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Amid the shouting and music and chants that characterised today’s anti-George W. Bush rally outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, one man stood silently at the front of the crowd, watching.
In June, 62-year old Tom Riley will celebrate a very personal anniversary. This year marks the 40th since he deserted the United States and escaped to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Riley attended today’s rally on behalf of the War Resisters Support Campaign in a show of support for the next generation of Americans opposed to war.
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A young woman, identified only as Eva, held a sign with a shoe hanging from it high above her head.
She was one of hundreds of people gathered on Front Street across from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this afternoon, where protesters gathered to denounce former U.S. president George W. Bush ahead of his appearance tonight in the venue. (More …)
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VideoSeveral NewsFIX staffers are on the scene at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, where anti-war groups are staging protests against the visit of ex-presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. We’ve captured some tweets about the event here, and also some video and pic links below.
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