It's been almost six years, but I'll never forget that weekend. The weekend of the G20 Summit in Toronto.When they turned my neighbourhood into an armed camp, more than 1,000 people were arrested.And I felt like I was living in a police state….
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Montreal Simon: Toronto’s G20 Victims Win the Right to Sue the Police
They turned my neighbourhood and much of downtown Toronto into a police state.They arrested more than a thousand people most of them peaceful protesters.They kettled them for no reason.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The G20 Summit and the Day of Reckoning
It's hard to believe that it's been more than four years since the G20 Summit in Toronto, and my neighbourhood became a police state.A dark sinister place where more than a thousand people were arrested, and caged like animals. For no good reason.And yes, the wheels of justice grind slowly.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin, and the Great G20 Showdown
OMG. I see Stephen Harper has stolen the spotlight at the G20 summit, by going dictator to dictator, with Vladimir Putin.Stephen Harper told Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly that he needs "to get out of Ukraine," when the two met at a Group of 20 summit of major economies in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: One Day in the Darkness of Harperland
It was cold and dark tonight by the lake where I live. Like it usually is in late November, in Canada. But at least for the first time there was a sprinkling of snow on the ground to brighten up the gloom.Which is more than I can say about Harperland, where it just
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Pipeline Crusade
Well he may be losing his battle to convince Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, but I see nothing will stop Stephen Harper from launching yet another oily crusade. First he will conquer or bribe British Columbia.A parade of cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats will head to British Columbia
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Syrian Apocalypse and the Con Klowns
I see it's going to be an apocalyptic weekend. The unofficial end of the northern summer that is never long enough. The sound of fighter jets flying low over my tree house.And of course this ghastly nightmare. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Made in Canada Recession
Holy Acropolis Now. As if what was happening at the G20 summit wasn’t enough of a nightmare of naked panic, piggy squeals, and vomit. As if these figures weren’t frightening enough.Canada’s jobs market suffered its biggest loss in 2 ½ years las…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Tax on Financial Transactions
The Globe and Mail has an online story reporting Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s adamant opposition to any consideration of a tax on financial transactions at the G20. Although the article doesn’t provide details, most of what I have read abo…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Two Sunday Morning Links
Echoing some of the sentiments I expressed the other day, this morning’s Star editorial endorses the Toronto Police Services Board’s decision to deny promotions to nine officers recommended by Police Chief Bill Blair. Is it possible that these officers…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Vindication For Those Abused By G20 Police Forces
The vast majority of the 1100 people abused, assaulted and arrested as a result of the thuggish actions of the G20 police forces, apparently intent on suppressing Canadians’ Charter Rights last June in Toronto, must be feeling a deep measure of vindica…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: the Real News Asks Some Important Questions About The G20 Secret Law
Although hardly the best interview I have seen, the following is worth viewing inasmuch it raises real questions about credibility regarding who the driving force was behind requesting the Public Works Protection Act invoked during the G20 Summit. Was …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Chief Bill Blair: No Apology, No Resignation
Having released a self-serving 70 page report reviewing the G20 Summit debacle, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has concluded he has nothing to apologize for and will not consider resigning. As reported in today’s Star, despite a public opinion poll sh…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Quasi-Police state
While the Premier of Ontario continues to blithely and glibly disavow any responsibility for the horrendous abuses of Charter Rights that took place during last June’s G20 Summit, admitting only that he “could have done a better job of communicating,” …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: With Powers Beyond Those of Mortal Men (And Women)
Loathsome worm that I am, I have spent the past year regularly criticizing the police for their mass suspension of our Charter rights during last June’s G20 Summit in Toronto. I saw them as a force gone wild, intoxicated by their own power, emboldened…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Finally, a G20 Police Arrest
There is little doubt in my mind that the relentless efforts of the Toronto Star played a major role in the arrest of Toronto police officer Glen Weddell in the G20 beating of Dorian Barton, the Toronto baker whose only crime was to take some pictures …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And The Two Chief Culprits Remain silent
Today’s story in The Toronto Star shows how the search for the identity of the officer who allegedly beat Dorian Barton is reaching absurdist levels.
Yet despite the increasing evidence of flagrant police obstructionism, Toronto Chief Bill Blair and P…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Despite Police and SIU Obstruction, G20 Lawsuit Moving Ahead
I have already written extensively about the G20 police abuses of our Charter Rights and have cited the McGuinty Government’s collusion in those abuses as the main reason I cannot vote for the Ontario Liberals in October. However, a story in today’s S…
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Questions for the Cons: Do you understand now why holding the G20 summit in downtown Toronto was a huge fucking mistake? Did you really think these summits would boost Ontario tourism? Really? Care to comment on how at least 3 cop cars were torched after apparently being left unattended? How
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Questions for the Cons:
Do you understand now why holding the G20 summit in downtown Toronto was a huge fucking mistake?
Did you really think these summits would boost Ontario tourism? Really?
Care to comment on how at least 3 cop cars were torched after apparently being left unattended?
How about the report about a journalist who was punched in the face? Got anything to say about that?
And this one? Emomotimi Azorbo charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, but friends say he couldn’t hear and follow police instructions. He is deaf.
Can you tell us why the TO police chief says he’s “shocked” by the violence? “Shocked”?
Seriously, if you Cons thought Canadians were outraged at the $1 billion security tab you racked up for this farce, just wait until the fallout from this really hits the fan.
And Saturday nite has only just begun…
And while you try to blame what’s going on on a bunch of anarchists, more than a bit of self-reflection about this absolutely bone-headed, politically-motivated decision you made about the location of this clusterfuck will definitely be in order.
I’ll tell you what: next time you guys want to get together, do the rest of us a favour and try Cuba. I hear Gitmo has damn good and cheap security. And that pesky “free speech” thing won’t even be an issue.