Layton's legacy lives on in youth baseball
Toronto Sun
On the G20, he was the only major politician anywhere to have the guts to call it what it was — a billion dollar sham where innocent people were turned on by authority all for the price of a photo op. Jack Layton was the one guy who you knew would not ...

G20 must do more to fix imbalances, US recovery seen
Frontier Post
Tiff Macklem, the bank's senior deputy governor, said in a speech that some G20 nations had not lived up to promises they made at a Toronto summit last year to starting tackling their deficits and debts.”While the G20 has made considerable progress in ...

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Ontario matters
Orangeville Citizen
Bredin A ttending the third independent civilian review into matters relating to the G20 Summit, convoked by the Toronto Police Services Board and moderated by John Morden, former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, in June at the Scarborough Civic ...

G20 must do more to fix imbalances, US recovery seen: BoC
Reuters Canada
Tiff Macklem, the bank's senior deputy governor, said in a speech that some G20 nations had not lived up to promises they made at a Toronto summit last year to starting tackling their deficits and debts. "While the G20 has made considerable progress in ...

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G20 must do more to fix imbalances, US recovery seen slow -BoC
Reuters
Tiff Macklem, the bank's senior deputy governor, said in a speech that some G20 nations had not lived up to promises they made at a Toronto summit last year to starting tackling their deficits and debts. "While the G20 has made considerable progress in ...

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Questioning the cost of Layton's state funeral
Toronto Sun
Certainly taxpayer's money has been spent on other controversial events — close to $1 billion for the G8, G20 and $10-million on the Rolling Stones SARSTOCK at Downsview. But those decisions were scrutinized and criticized. ...

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Xtra.ca
A dispatch from the International Copwatching Conference
Xtra.ca
Speakers recalled the police crackdown on the G20 protests in Toronto last summer, emphasizing that the shocking images of mass arrests, tear gas and reports of police misconduct are nothing new in Canada. Gary Kinsman, a sociology professor at ...

Pillages en plein jour ( Naomi Klein)
Cent Papiers
Au « sommet de l'austérité » du G20 l'année dernière à Toronto, les protestations ont dégénéré et de nombreuses voitures de police ont brûlé. Rien à voir avec Londres 2011, mais pour nous les Canadiens, ce fut un choc. Mais la grande controverse qui a ...

Altermonde-sans-frontières
Pillages en plein jour
Altermonde-sans-frontières
Au « sommet de l'austérité » du G20 l'année dernière à Toronto, les protestations ont dégénéré et de nombreuses voitures de police ont brûlé. Rien à voir avec Londres 2011, mais pour nous les Canadiens, ce fut un choc. Mais la grande controverse qui a ...

Warr's attitude explains a lot
Toronto Star
The arrogance displayed by retiring deputy police chief Tony Warr in defending the brutality displayed by Toronto police during the G20 summit is probably indicative of why the police force behaved in the manner it did. It is unbelievable that Warr ...

Mayoral candidate: Turn on the surveillance cameras
News1130
77 new Closed Circuit Television (CCTC) cameras were installed in downtown Toronto in preparation for the G20 Summit (Photo credit: Toronto Police Service). Photo courtesy of: Toronto Police Service VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A Vancouver mayoral candidate ...

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Rioters are just jerks
The Sudbury Star
In the case of the G20 riots in Toronto, a core group known as the Black Bloc was integral to getting the rioting and violence started. But there were also seemingly normal people who joined in the fray as well as thousands who watched, ...
Why people can't help themselvesMacleans.ca
Why 1000 charged in UK riots and 0 charged in VancouverToronto Star

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One Year After the G20 Protests: Forms of Protest Reflect Our Power
New Socialist Group
The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest, edited by David Wachsmuth and Tom Malleson -- NSW On the one year anniversary of the anti-G20 protests, where the largest mass arrests in Canadian history were carried out, civil society groups held ...

Canada's mixed signals to rising nations
Toronto Star
This engagement of the BICs cannot be separated from the G20. Although unfortunately overshadowed by the violent street disturbances in Toronto, it should not be forgotten that the June 2010 summit allowed Harper to host both President Hu Jintao and ...

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Scepticisme en Europe sur la taxe financière franco-allemande
atlasinfo.fr
Au niveau mondial, malgré la pression française, le G20 a déjà retoqué l'idée l'an dernier à Toronto. La taxe sur les transactions financières, c'est l'épouvantail des marchés et des banques européens. Peur numéro 1 : la "délocalisation " des ...

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Toronto, Montreal ranked as pricey. What, no Vancouver?
Globe and Mail
The EU is now looking at drafting a plan it can present to a G20 summit later this year. "This is something no one - other than euroland politicians - wants to see," said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. ...

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Prisoners' meals cheap but nutritional
Toronto Sun
Toronto Police were highly criticized for serving G20 Summit prisoners cheese sandwiches in a temporary holding facility on Eastern Ave. Under UN food standards, “every prisoner shall be provided by the administration at the usual hours with food of ...

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Criminals at root of riots must be treated as such
London Free Press
In the case of the G20 riots in Toronto, a core group known as the Black Bloc was integral to getting the rioting and violence started. But there were also seemingly normal people who joined in the fray as well as thousands who watched, ...

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Criminals at root of riots must be treated as such
The North Bay Nugget
In the case of the G20 riots in Toronto, a core group known as the Black Bloc was integral to getting the rioting and violence started. But there were also seemingly normal people who joined in the fray as well as thousands who watched, ...

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Evidence of Tony Clement's involvement in alleged G8 pork fest mounts
Toronto Life (blog)
But hey, that's okay, because Toronto's G20 experience was so wonderful and totally didn't poison our relationship with the city's police. Oh wait; scratch that. But it's all good, because Clement is only the president of the treasury board now, ...

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