Toronto Anti Poverty

 

Here's some photos from Wednesday's Anti-Poverty rally on Queen's Park in T.O. I joined the march originating from Metro Park at Queen and Church streets, which was joined be two or three other marches (I think there were five marches all together) while it snaked its way through downtown before eventually converging on the lawn of the Legislature. I'm no expert at crowd estimates, but I'd guess there were about 600-800 people out through the scattered showers that came down.

The Police presence was limited to a few dozen officers, some on bikes which escorted the march, some on horseback which were at Queens park flanking the main entrance to the Legislature when we arrived and some on foot in a diffuse line in front of the main entrance. The marchers didn't seem to pay them much mind and the police didn't make much of an effort to interfere with the march. One exception being when the police tried to nudge the march onto the sidewalk by blocking the road with their bikes, but the plan was thwarted when the march simply stopped and waited for them to move...  read more »