Montreal

Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay, and police chief, Yvan Delorme both made public statements regarding the violent riot that broke out of a peaceful protest in a northern, largely Haitian community neighborhood this weekend. Many residents, seen to be driven by their frustration over (what they see as) the belligerent police shooting and murder of fellow community member, Freddy Villanueva, 18, stormed the streets, tossing beer bottles at firefighters after setting fires and confronting the police in a display of violence.

Mayor Tremblay said he won't "tolerate what has happened on the weekend." Delorme, on the other hand, has said that he's willing to do whatever to make amends with the community, even though he believes that the tension is not necessarily as widespread as some press portray it to be.   read more »

I've been going through some of my old negatives and scanning some of my favourites that never made it to a scanner for one reason or another.

These ones are from an Anti-war rally that occurred a few days after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. These are pictures that I missed the first time I scanned these rolls or thought I couldn't get a decent picture out of...

Around the US consulate, things got a little ruckus, with mud, snowballs, bottles, etc, being thrown at the police who had erected a barricade of crowd control fences across the narrow street in front of the building (rue Saint-Alexandre I think?).  read more »

These are a couple of photos that I took at an Anti-War demonstration a few days after the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. I happened to be on Montreal on the day of the demonstration because I was on my way to Quebec City. The demonstration marched from a park near the train station to the U.S. Consulate.

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