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.

The Quebec Students and the Little Red Square

The Grand Prix of Montreal is finally over, and sadly my favourite driver Anarcho Panda, the gentle mascot of the student movement, didn't win.

And although there were a lot of red squares and red Ferrari shirts at the race.

If you wore a red square anywhere near the Grand Prix activities you risked being searched, detained, and politically profiled. 

Jean Charest and the Great Distraction

When I see pictures like this one of my beloved Montréal on a warm Saturday night.

On sedate St-Denis street of all places.

And I read what kind of peace the Quebec government's totalitarian Bill 78 has brought.

The adoption of emergency legislation to end Quebec's escalating student crisis stoked fiery debate across the province overnight, from highly charged street protests that lasted into the wee hours to harsh editorials and some calls for civil disobedience.

When I read how police pepper sprayed the peaceful patrons of a bar. On a patio of all places. 

Or watch the video...

Now That It's Official:The G20 Never Happened

And the guilty will never be punished.

“Just to know that they can say ‘Yes, we know this happened, but there’s nothing we can do about it,’ ” he said.

“If they can’t do anything about it, Who can?”

I've been reading about the student protests in  Britain.

Amid more than a dozen protests, estimated by some to involve up to 130,000 students, there were isolated incidents of violence and skirmishes with police, mostly in central London.

The police tactic of penning students into a so-called kettle near Parliament Square for several hours caused anger, but appeared to contain the disorder.

And finding it all very familiar.

Critics have accused the police of using disproportionate tactics against student protesters, with particular concern over the use of kettling against young children and teenagers. A sizeable number of the crowd in central London were secondary school children, and although some were involved in violent acts against an abandoned police vehicle and a nearby bus stop, the majority remained peaceful.

You know I'd like to think that in a country where young men are the new face of poverty.

And seniors are being squeezed.

And more people than ever are hungry.

That when the Harper Cons begin swinging the axe, like they surely will. We will do like the British kids are doing, and rise up in protest.

But then I think how could that happen eh? When we live in Canada. 

Where governments get away with EVERYTHING.

Civil liberties are disposable.

The guilty are never punished.

And this never happened...



Here's to justice in Canada.

And the children's REVOLUTION...