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 ...

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CBC.ca
Snubbing Expo 2012 shows Ottawa's skewed international spending priorities
Vancouver Sun
After all, this is a government that undertook wild and ridiculous spending for the G8 and G20 meetings just last year in Ontario. Ottawa authorized spending on a $5.5-million G20 security fence in Toronto. In total, overkill-style security for the ...
Fallout over Canada's decision to skip Expo 2012Edmonton Journal

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Stink of dictatorship in air
Toronto Star
What did Canadians learn from the G20 fiasco in Toronto last year when orders from Harper gave police a mandate to stomp down hard on the public? Are we discerning the stink of dictatorship in the wind? Canadians cannot say they haven't been warned ...

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CBC.ca
Snubbing Expo 2012 shows Ottawa's skewed international spending priorities
Vancouver Sun
After all, this is a government that undertook wild and ridiculous spending for the G8 and G20 meetings just last year in Ontario. Ottawa authorized spending on a $5.5-million G20 security fence in Toronto. In total, overkill-style security for the ...
Fallout over Canada's decision to skip Expo 2012Edmonton Journal

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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 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. ...

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 ...

CANADA FX DEBT-C$ pares gains but manages to end higher
Reuters
TORONTO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar finished slightly firmer on Tuesday, but was a laggard against the US currency as it was largely left out of a global shift to riskier assets. Equities and most commodities rallied, ...

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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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Why people can't help themselves
Macleans.ca
The most important thing the Toronto police did with the G20 riots was not all the head-cracking and the random detentions, but crowdsourcing the identities of people who were photographed committing crimes. The Vancouver police have been busy ...

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Globe and Mail
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 ...

Globe and Mail
Why 1000 charged in UK riots and 0 charged in Vancouver
Toronto Star
The methodical pace of the Vancouver police investigation, which the chief said may be the biggest ever conducted in Canada, is at odds with the Toronto G20 riots. During that event, police arrested alleged ringleaders even before the G20 weekend and ...
Why people can't help themselvesMacleans.ca

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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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Port Elgin man bringing Anti-Flag to Owen Sound
Shoreline Beacon
From left to right, Jessica Drake, Justin Sane of Anti-Flag and Brad Drake of Union Rocks in a pictured taken at the 2010 G20 in Toronto. SHORELINE BEACON/QMI By SARAH SLOAN , ASSISTANT EDITOR A Port Elgin man is bringing a legendary punk band to Owen ...

Stephen Harper and Brazil: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
Huffington Post Canada
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 this June 2010 summit allowed PM Harper to host both President Hu Jintao ...

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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