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Police move in on Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park
Police have moved in to enforce the eviction order at St. James Park after making three announcements requesting protesters leave.
Officers have been moving through the park from tent to tent, asking protesters to vacate the area. The central gazebo has been barricaded, with boards and signs on all sides, and a few people remaining within.
City bylaw officers have also arrived in the park and were taping pieces of paper, each with a letter and a number, to tents and structures. One bylaw officer explained they were photographing all the structures for the purposes of record-keeping.
Occupiers were beating a drum and chanting “we occupy” and “make the rich pay.” Protesters had been shouting at police, with a spontaneous chant erupting of “Whose park? Our park.”
Gary Clement on Occupy Toronto
A large group of Occupy Toronto protesters have vowed not to leave their campsite after they were issued with new eviction notices by council officials
Occupy Toronto: Protesters must vacate park, judge rules
Occupy Toronto protesters must pack up their tents and leave St. James Park, where they have been camping out for more than a month, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
In a decision released Monday, Justice David Brown found the city was within its rights to force an end to the demonstration, calling it a “reasonable limit” on the group’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“If the protesters possess a constitutional right to occupy the park and appropriate it to their use, then the next protest group espousing a political message would have the right to so occupy another park, say, Moss Park; and the next group the next park, and so on, and so forth,” Judge Brown wrote in his 54-page ruling. “So would result a ‘tragedy of the commons,’ another ironic consequence of a movement advocating greater popular empowerment.” (Photo: Mark Blinch/Reuters)
Occupy Toronto protesters given midnight deadline to leave parkBylaw officers have served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto protesters just a day after Mayor Rob Ford reiterated warnings that the city would move “soon” against the encampment.Just hours after the forced removal of the New York camp where the Occupy movement first took root, Toronto police accompanied bylaw officers pinned sheets of paper to tents requesting that all traces of the campsite be removed immediately. (Photos: Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Occupy Toronto protesters served eviction notice
Bylaw officers have served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto protesters, pinning sheets of paper to tents requesting that all traces of the campsite be removed immediately.
Toronto police officers accompanied bylaw officers as they went from tent to tent.
“We are working to ensure the bylaw officers can do their jobs properly,” Constable Wendy Drummond said.
Occupy Toronto protesters are planning a general assembly at noon to decide how best to respond to the eviction notices.
“We don’t want to see a repeat of Wall Street,” said Taylor Chelsea, referring to the dismantling of the occupy protest in New York earlier Tuesday, which led to dozens of arrests. (Photo:Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Just how big is Occupy Toronto? The camp by the numbers, and what it looks like from above
City manager Joe Pennachetti said on Thursday that Toronto will take “appropriate steps” regarding the Occupy Toronto camp in a downtown park starting next week. So just how big is Occupy Toronto? Emily Innes takes a look at the numbers behind the occupation.
Global ‘Occupy’ protests run gamut
As the anti-corporate protest movement Occupy Wall Street went global this weekend, it led to conflict in rough proportion to the economic problems of each country, from tear-gas and arson in debt-crippled Italy, to peaceful consensus and free sandwiches in comparably well-off Canada.
Police and protesters fought openly in the streets of Rome, a political hotspot in the Eurozone debt problem, where solidarity is strong for Occupy Wall Street and the indignados of Spain. Vehicles were torched, roads blockaded, a bomb detonated, and a church’s statue of the Virgin Mary smashed to bits.
Twenty-thousand marched in Portugal’s capital Lisbon, according to reports, another of the near-bankrupt so-called PIGS of Europe, with Italy, Greece and Spain.
In London, police warned protesters in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral, near the stock exchange, that their presence was “illegal and disrespectful,” but opted for “containment” over confrontation.
In New York, where protesters have grown from a downtown park into a microcosm of an underemployed nation, burdened with bad debt, and resentful of banks who pursued profit to economic collapse, thousands marched on Times Square, and nearly 100 people were arrested. Even more were held in Chicago, and 46 in Phoenix, as the Occupy movement took hold nationally.
But in Canada, where Adbusters magazine in Vancouver became the wellspring of the movement this summer by publishing the first call to “Occupy Wall Street,” all was more or less calm.
Photo: Protesters wear pig masks and business suits at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the Occupy Vancouver protest in Vancouver, on the weekend. (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)
Wall Street protests spreading to Toronto, Calgary, Montreal
Organizers of a protest slated to take place on Toronto’s Bay Street later this month say they’re following in the footsteps of American activists who have stormed Wall Street in New York and other U.S. cities in a rally against the global financial system.
Hundreds of people are expected to meet in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, at the intersection of Bay and King streets, on Oct. 15 to prepare for a march two days later as the Toronto Stock Exchange opens that Monday. (Photo: Simon Hayter for National Post)
