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On 25 April 2020, there were small protests totalling 200 protesters in front of the Ontario Legislative Building in Queen's Park, Toronto, demanding that Premier Doug Ford end all emergency measures. Some of the protesters considered COVID-19 to be a hoax. Ford called them "a bunch of yahoos." [26] On 2 May 2020, there was another protest with ...
A counter-protest organized by health care workers was planned in Toronto for February 12, but was called off when the provincial government instituted a state of emergency. [ 287 ] In counter-protests on February 12, thousands of people joined the "Community Solidarity March" through Ottawa to demand the end of the protests.
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed or destroyed as a result of protests and riots between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system (Alexander Wood, Egerton Ryerson and Joseph Hugonard), two of Canadian monarchs (Queen ...
Mona Ayesh, a 46-year-old Palestinian-Canadian woman, who attended the Toronto protest, condemned the Israeli occupation of West Bank and noted Gazans have lived under an Israeli-led blockade for ...
Disasters and accidents 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Laura heads toward the Gulf Coast of the United States. The storm is now over western Cuba after killing multiple people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The coasts of Texas and Louisiana prepare to receive Laura as a category 3 (or higher) hurricane. (CNN) More than 385,000 residents are told to flee the cities of Beaumont ...
Montreal protest on 31 May 2020. Montreal: Thousands attended a protest outside the Montreal police headquarters on 31 May. [74] The protests eventually escalated into unrest, and police fired tear gas. [75] Several store windows were damaged, and some items were stolen. Eleven arrests were made, including one for assault. [76]
The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Indigenous-Ukrainian-Black Canadian woman, occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 27, 2020. Responding to multiple 911 calls from Korchinski-Paquet, her mother, and her brother, for a domestic disturbance involving punches, thrown bottles, and knives, police attended her apartment.
February 6 – Via Rail cancels trains on their Toronto–Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa routes. [17] [18] [19] Until February 13, Via Rail announces passenger train cancellations on a day-to-day basis. Mohawk protesters at the Tyendinaga blockade on February 10; February 8 – Solidarity protests take place in Toronto [20] and Ottawa. [21]