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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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 ...

Business Standard
Shyam Saran: Where is the G20?
Business Standard
The subsequent summits at Toronto and Seoul saw the beginning of the unravelling of the initial consensus and a relapse into ad hoc, national decisions. Since then the economic recovery in the US has been stymied by a dysfunctional political system. ...

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
Brantford Expositor
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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Free societies need good police
Montreal Gazette
Not only the "England riots," but the Vancouver hockey spree, last year's G20 "masked ball" in Toronto, Renault-torching sessions in France, racial "wildings" at American summer fairs, debt-related ...

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Greens reiterate call for public inquiry into G20
NorthumberlandView.ca
OTTAWA - In the wake of a recent Ontario lower court ruling that police caused escalating violence at the G20 meetings in Toronto last summer, the Green Party of Canada is again calling for a full public inquiry into the planning, security, ...

Toronto.com
Pigging out for film's sake at the G20 riots
Toronto.com
Last year's G20 riots in Toronto were bad for property, civil liberties and civic pride – but they were a windfall for one enterprising young filmmaker, who is now headed to TIFF. Andrew Cividino and his team seized the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Girl power aims to change tune of G20 boys' club
Sydney Morning Herald
The first G(irls) 20 Summit was held in Toronto last year to coincide with the 2010 G20 summit. Ms Poyser said she first heard about the summit at high school, but did not apply to attend Toronto because she was in the middle of her VCE. ...

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