Day in photos: June 27
We’ve been busy. Yesterday, Braden was rounded up at Queen and Spadina along with hundreds of other people, and I was detained and searched by police. My camera gear is damaged after the police left it sitting in the rain while they searched me. We have piles of photos, audio, and video to sort through, … Read more
Day in Photos: June 26, 2010
We have much more to come, including additional photos of yesterday’s demonstrations and our postponed coverage of one-man protests. Check back soon.
Downtown Toronto is a warzone
Downtown Toronto is in chaos after a 10,000-strong peaceful protest splintered in multiple directions, and a small faction began smashing windows along Queen Street and set police cars on fire. The southbound subway lines have been cut off in the downtown core, and movement is greatly restricted by lines of police in riot gear cutting … Read more
Checkpoints and motorcades
Another look at the police presence in and outside Huntsville. A famous person makes a (not-terribly-visible) cameo at the end. We thought it was going to be Obama. It was’t.
We’re in Muskoka
…for a couple of days – just in time to see a bunch of black military-looking helicopters flying on in.
G20 can’t spell
This Magazine has a blog post up about an embarrassing misspelling on G20 security cards. After I picked up my media accreditation swag yesterday, I noticed they also misspelled Michelle Obama’s name in the media orientation guide. A good way to showcase Canada to the international media.
