By Frank Moher Charlie Veitch, one of the first activists arrested at the G20 in Toronto, was arrested a second time on Tuesday as he attempted to catch a plane home to England. According to a Toronto Police Service media release (pdf) issued on Tuesday night, Veitch has been charged with impersonating a police officer. […]
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G20: Why didn’t police stop the Black Bloc?
By Alison@Creekside A photojournalist followed and filmed 75 to 100 Black Bloc for 90 minutes and 24 blocks as they rampaged through the streets of Toronto smashing windows and torching police cars while police looked calmly on from several different locations: Why was this rampage allowed to happen? Police say they had already infiltrated […]
The G20: were the burning police cars bait cars?
By Alison@Creekside Video to left: Protesters amuse themselves playing with the sirens and lights in two police cruisers inexplicably driven into the crowd and then abandoned in the middle of the street. Calling in to dispatch, making airplane noises on the mike for the crowd, and handing out tickets — it’s all rather jovial. Kid […]
Widespread police misbehaviour, illegal activity at G20
By Frank Moher While mainstream news coverage of the G20 was dominated on Saturday by footage of burning police cars and vandals smashing windows, video of police misbehaviour, breaches of law, and plain old abuse emerged overnight on the internet. I’ve gathered some of it below. For a more complete picture of the G20 than […]
Above the yellow zone: the secretary’s diaries
By Tara Hughes Our office stretches high above King and University, one block north of the G20 cage. Friday Jun 18th: The Company transfers all staff to the Mississauga office for the week of the G20. They decamp this afternoon, couriering computers amidst grumbling and moaning. As the only part-time employee, I do not go with […]
The G20: A Charter-free zone
By Alison@Creekside The G8 Free Speech Farm — only a short, leisurely eight kilometer hike from the G8 site.. Meanwhile at the G20 downtown, the government of Ontario has designated the sidewalks and public spaces five meters from the security fence a Charter-free zone. How’s your legalese? A guard or peace officer, (a) may require […]
The National [sic] Magazine Awards
By Frank Moher Gosh, what a surprise. The Walrus leads this year’s National Magazine Awards with 33 nominations, followed by Maclean’s with 27 and Toronto Life with 26. This compares to 28 for The Walrus, 27 for Toronto Life, and 20 for Maclean’s last year, and 37 for The Walrus, 29 for Toronto Life, and […]
Another “national” publishing award
By Frank Moher A number of years ago I proposed a story to Saturday Night magazine on the journalist Barry Broadfoot, veteran western Canadian newspaperman and pioneer in Canada of oral histories (Ten Lost Years, Six War Years), who had a new book coming out. Over the phone, I extolled his virtues to my editor […]
From Toronto? Here, have a CBC show.
By Frank Moher Jian Ghomeshi admitted at the top of a recent broadcast of the new CBC Radio arts show “Q” that some listeners were finding it a bit “Torontocentric.” Gosh, what a surprise. The CBC appoints yet another young man from Toronto as host of a program produced from Toronto, and it turns out […]
