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G20 Toronto

Criminal government behaviour?

 * "Order-in-council"
 * "Province has secretly passed an unprecedented regulation that empowers police to arrest anyone near the G20 security zone who refuses to identify themselves or agree to a police search ... under Ontario’s Public Works Protection Act ... not debated in the Legislature"
 * "“guards” appointed under the act [not just police] can arrest anyone who, in specific areas, comes within five metres of the security zone"
 * "When it comes to summit security, police answer to no one"
 * Pre-violence harassment reports?
 * ID requested June 23rd "two kilometres north of the designated “Traffic Zone”"?
 * Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services: “The Ontario government did not pass a secret law that gave police additional power to arrest people”
 * “Asked Tuesday if there actually was a five-metre rule given the ministry’s clarification, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair smiled and said, ‘No, but I was trying to keep the criminals out.’”
 * Chief knowingly withheld law clarification: This isn’t “misleading,” he says, because “I never spoke publicly again about that regulation."
 * "Police never given special G20 arrest powers: chief"
 * "Police admit no five-metre rule existed on security fence law"
 * "G20-related mass arrests unique in Canadian history"
 * "Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has denied the use of rubber bullets by police."

Black Bloc violence?
Joe Wenkoff, Photographer at ZUMA Press
 * Black Bloc (BB) attacked car with 2 police in them
 * BB passed 2 riot squads, "didn't engage"
 * 3 abandoned police cars smashed for "15 minutes"

Confirmation: Paul Manly, filmmaker and community organizer, Nanaimo, B.C.
 * "police left the vehicles behind intentionally - there was lots of time to move them."
 * "police and riot squad were watching from a short distance but only moved in after the Black Bloc moved on ... to Yonge Street and broke windows all the way to College Street, where they broke windows on the corner while the riot squad watched a block away."
 * "They entered the official protest zone, took off their black clothes and dispersed through the crowd of peaceful protesters"
 * "The police quickly escalated their presence ... another riot squad contingent moved in from ... and trapped the crowd from behind."
 * "the riot squad charged forward, pushing the crowd through a narrow passage between the two riot squads ... They had police squeezing them from both sides who pepper-sprayed them and beat them with batons if they didn't move fast enough. Many of the people who were beaten and pepper-sprayed had been merely hanging around"

Car's did not have equipment or computers:

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair: A “criminal conspiracy”
Larper's vest and toy arrows misrepresented
 * Brian Barrett, 25-year-old Whitby landscaper wielding padded swords and blunted arrows
 * Police did not charge Barrett but they confiscated his gear, including homemade swords crafted from foam pool noodles, and arrows with the points cut off then covered with foam and socks.
 * Barrett is in charge of weapons safety and public relations with Amtgard’s Toronto chapter.
 * Barrett’s homemade metal vest, which took him about 500 hours to make, was also taken by police. He estimates all the gear is worth about $500.
 * At a news conference at Toronto police headquarters Tuesday, Barrett’s role-playing equipment was displayed alongside weapons police said were confiscated from G20 protesters. Two machetes were placed on top of Barrett’s metal vest, and police suggested his arrows could be set on fire and launched. “They were showing off my gear as terrorist stuff,” said Barrett. “That’s beyond unfair.”
 * Barrett had been told he could pick up his equipment Tuesday. But police have since told him they will hold onto his gear indefinitely.

Queen and Spadina

 * G20 Toronto- Police surround and attack small group of protesters at Queen and Spadina
 * From overhead:
 * All released:
 * Dan Dolderman is a professor at the University of Toronto

Jail solidarity march

 * Peaceful march attacked
 * G20 Protesters Being snatched by Unmarked Vans In Toronto:
 * Plain clothed police grab people and one dressed like Black Bloc
 * Undercovers uncovered:
 * Random snatch:
 * Rubber bullets:

Abused journalists?

 * Amy Miller, Montreal-based journalist, the Dominion, Alternative Media Centre:
 * “I was throttled by a cop and later threatened with rape,”
 * “I saw young women being strip searched by men.”
 * "I was told I was going to be gang banged. I was told that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again by making sure I was going to be repeatedly raped while I was in jail".
 * was covering a group of demonstrators who were detained by police in downtown Toronto on Sunday afternoon when she said she was verbally abused, arrested and taken to the detention centre.
 * "So you think you're a journalist. You won't be a journalist after we bring you to jail," the 29-year-old recounted an officer saying to her in her complaint. "You're going to be raped. We always like the pretty ones. We're going to wipe the grin off your face when we gang bang you. We know how the Montreal girls roll."
 * one of the arresting officers repeated the threat when she was at the detention centre. She was released about 12 hours later without any charges.


 * Adam MacIsaac:
 * said he was detained for 12 hours for taking photos of a demonstrator being arrested.
 * “I was assaulted by four officers even though I wear a pacemaker,” MacIsaac said. “They didn’t care that I have heart problems.”
 * He alleges his camera was lost or misplaced by police. Other activists have complained their cameras with G20 shots have also gone missing.
 * he was covering the same protest as Miller for the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. He said he was with Miller when he was assaulted and arrested by police. He was taken to a hospital after telling police that he had a pacemaker and then later transferred to the detention centre. The 27-year-old was also released later without being charged


 * Jesse Rosenfeld, The Guardian
 * the government is trying to muzzle the alternative press
 * Rosenfeld earlier verbally attacked police who insisted on listening in on the outdoor press conference at the Alternative Media Centre
 * Riot police arrived shortly after protesters gathered at the hotel at 10:30 p.m. and boxed in the crowd, saying everyone would be arrested, Rosenfeld said.
 * When he went to ask whether journalists would also be arrested, the 26-year-old said two officers recognized him from a day earlier as "the loud mouth kid that was mouthing off to me yesterday."
 * That was when he said he was grabbed by two officers, punched in the stomach and back and repeatedly kneed in the ribs.
 * Rosenfeld said he yelled to them that he was not resisting arrest and that he was a journalist.
 * He was arrested for breach of the peace and taken to the detention centre in the city's east end at midnight where he stayed until his release 18 hours later with no charges.


 * Lisa Walter, 41, an indie magazine writer for Our Times
 * said she was thrown to the ground and cuffed as she and another independent journalist covered the same group that was being arrested in downtown Toronto on Sunday afternoon, according to her complaint.
 * She said officers mocked her, saying her credentials were "fake," questioned whether she was a man and the sergeant who ordered her arrest called her a "f---ing dyke" and "a douche bag," her complaint states.
 * Walter said she was transported to the detention centre at 1:45 p.m. and tossed into a holding cell with about 24 other women who had to share an open portable toilet. She said her medication was withheld from her for several hours and she was given only two three-ounce glasses of water and a sandwich. Seven hours into her detention, Walter said she was moved to a segregation cell where she learned four of her six neighbours there said they were gay. She believes she was segregated because police thought she was a lesbian.


 * Maryam Adriangi, Toronto Community Mobilization Network
 * threatened with rape.
 * “I was harassed by police and had racist and sexist comments made against me,”
 * picked up by police in Parkdale and placed in a prisoners’ wagon and driven around for five hours and released without charges


 * Sharmeen Khan, Network spokesman:
 * more than 900 inmates were held “in disgraceful conditions” at the former film studio.
 * “The detainees weren’t given food or medication,” Khan said. “They had to wait hours to see a lawyer.”
 * She said charges were dropped against most of the activists and they were released.


 * Jesse Freeston, TheRealNews
 * Punched in the face twice while trying to film police assaulting a deaf black man: Emomotimi ("Timmy") Azorbo


 * Lacy MacAuley, Washington based journalist:
 * "strangled, and punched"
 * "none of my attackers ever identified himself as a police officer
 * "calling me names such as: “cunt,” “bitch,” “whore,” and “street trash.”"
 * "pulling my hair very hard"

Public Inquiry
Nathalie DesRosiers, General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
 * “disproportionate, arbitrary and excessive”
 * violation of individual rights during summit policing “exceeded the threshold of a few isolated incidents”

CCLA
 * detained people were not allowed to speak to a lawyer or family members
 * people were subjected to arbitrary searches and peaceful protest were broken up with force.

Love Police?

 * Toronto a "dystopian version of the future".
 * Comedian Vietch arrested for 21 hours for not showing ID.
 * Held while trying to leave Canada to claiming to be part of the "Love Police"

Charlie Veitch of England charged with impersonating a undercover police officer at G20 summit - he indicated that he was not carrying identification because he was working undercover as a peace officer.

Torontanamo?
Union station --or-- Toronto Film Studio

Inside the G20 Eastern Avenue Detention Centre

Taylor Flook:
 * said she spent almost 24 hours in detention before being released without charge and witnessed strip searches of women by male officers, as well as sexist remarks made by several officers.
 * She described being in a cell with a 17-year-old girl who had to urinate in front of male officers because there were no doors for the portable toilets at the makeshift jail.

People held:

Police brutality
Police surround peaceful protestors:

"free speech zone" Violent Police Arrests Queens Park Toronto G20 June 26

Toronto G20 Police State Storm Troopers intimidating peaceful protesters

Police tackle peaceful Canadians Singing O CANADA G20 Toronto protest

Abused protestors
Lulu Maxwell, 17, Grade 12, Rosedale Heights
 * Maxwell and a friend were hanging around near Queen and Dufferin Sts. at a convergence centre for protesters on Sunday afternoon when police started making arrests. “My friend was blowing bubbles and I was scribbling peace signs on the sidewalk.”
 * Within minutes, her friend was grabbed and Lulu was put up against a wall. Her backpack was searched and Lulu says an officer said she could be charged with possession of dangerous weapons “because I had eyewash solution in my backpack.”
 * She was taken to the detention centre and almost 12 hours after her arrest was allowed to call her parents. She was released, without charges being laid, at 5 a. m.

Natalie Logan, 21, U of T student
 * Logan was taking photos at The Esplanade on Saturday evening when she was arrested.
 * “I was documenting the protest when the police started encircling everyone,” she said. She was taken to the detention centre at 3:30 a.m. “Before they handcuffed me, I peed in a bottle because I knew I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.”
 * She wasn’t charged and suddenly released at 3:30 p.m., more than 14 hours after her arrest. “I am embarrassed for my city, embarrassed for Toronto Police and embarrassed that this could happen.”

Selwyn Firth, 59, Toronto mayoral candidate
 * Wanting a better view of a protest outside Queen’s Park on Saturday, Firth walked to an elevated U of T building. When police told him to leave, he identified himself as a mayoral candidate. He refused and was forced to the ground, his cheek lacerated. He was arrested for obstruction.
 * “I wasn’t obstructing anyone, I was asking questions,” said Firth, who was taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre where he needed insulin for his Type 1 diabetes. Sunday morning he was taken to the Finch Ave., courthouse and again needed insulin, so was sent to hospital. He later returned to court and was released on $1,000 bail. He is considering suing the city and police.

Erin Boynton, 24, London, Ont.
 * She was arrested at The Esplanade early Sunday morning after police boxed dozens of protesters in.
 * “I was with a protest marching peacefully down Yonge from Dundas Square,” she said. “When the cops came at us, many people scattered and those who were left in front of the (Novotel) got arrested.” She said police came from all sides and “squished us in. They didn’t give us a warning to leave…. just announced that we are arresting all of you.”
 * She said a lot of people at the detention centre were innocent bystanders. “The police violated all our rights . . . there was police brutality. Quite frankly, it was quite disgusting.” Boynton wasn’t charged.

Cameron Fenton, 24, journalist with Dominion in Montreal
 * “A bunch of us were peacefully protesting (near the Eastern Ave. detention centre) at about 2:30 a.m. when police told us that it was an unlawful assembly and we had to leave,” said Fenton. But they were boxed in and couldn’t leave. Some time later, about 30 of them were walking about two blocks away when they were boxed in again by police.
 * Everyone was arrested. Fenton said he was never read his legal rights or allowed to make a phone call. “It was cold, there was barely any food or water… there was no place in the cages to even sit,” he said Monday. “That detention centre was tantamount to torture.” He was released on Sunday afternoon, after more than 17 hours in detention.

Emily Berrigan, 23, project manager for a local non-government agency
 * Berrigan spent her 23rd birthday Saturday night in a detention centre on charges of obstruction and unlawful demonstration.
 * She was with Oxfam Canada for the labour march in the morning, protesting peacefully. She went to Queen’s Park around 8 p.m. for her bike and within 10 minutes was arrested. She was taken to the detention centre at 9 p.m. and got nothing to eat or drink until 5 a.m., when she was given a sandwich and some water, she said. “The cage I was in had been pepper-sprayed and it stung our eyes and skin,” she said. At about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, she was taken to the courts at Finch Ave. and released by 7 p.m. “That’s inhumane,” she said.

Adam MacIsaac, P.E.I.
 * MacIsaac, an independent journalist in town for the G20, took out his video camera to document police search methods and says he was aggressively thrown to the ground. Police began kicking him in the ribs and stunning him with a stun gun. “I have a pacemaker!” he screamed repeatedly, but says they didn’t listen.
 * MacIsaac was eventually taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. He says officers harassed him; one repeatedly asked if his pacemaker battery was nuclear. He was later taken to the detention centre and left alone in the back of police cruiser. When police let him go seven hours later, they said they had no idea where his $6000 worth of equipment went. They told him to file a complaint.

Amy Miller, Montreal
 * Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.
 * “I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons.” She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”
 * She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.

Steve Cruikshank, 28, Newmarket
 * Cruikshank was among those boxed in by police “without warning” at the Queen St. and Spadina Ave. intersection Sunday evening. Officers kept yelling at people to “Move” but there was nowhere to go. Cruikshank said he asked where they should go and was hit in the face with a riot shield.
 * He was arrested for breaching the peace and, with 50 others, taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre.
 * “I asked for medical attention and they said ‘No’, that I was ‘barely bleeding.’ I asked for a lawyer and wasn’t given access. I asked to make a phone call and they laughed.” About three hours later, he was released without charge.

Stefanie Roy, 21, Joliette, Que.
 * Roy said she was arrested early Sunday evening “for nothing.”
 * “We were sitting in front of a bank, talking and wanting to go home, when two big cars came up and police came out of them,” she said. They searched her car and found a hammer and a hatchet that happened to be there from a long time ago, Roy said. She was charged with possessing weapons. Police seized her laptop, boots, and a key-chain photo of her son.
 * The charge was dropped on Monday, but she is still missing her boots. “I’m not going back in there,” she said, standing in her socks and staring at the detention centre.

Jean-Christophe Martel, 21, Granby, Que.
 * Martel was arrested on the subway at 11 a.m. Sunday after police searched his bags and found something they considered to be heroin in his emergency medical kit. Police charged him with trafficking heroin.
 * Martel says he was not involved with the violence in any way.
 * After 24 hours, he was released from the detention centre Monday afternoon and the charge against him was dropped.
 * “I’m going back to Quebec,” he said. “I’ll never leave that province again.”

Guillaume Lemarron, 24, Montreal
 * Lemarron came with friends to the protest, and acted as a street medic on Saturday. They were arrested on Sunday while heading to the Greyhound station to leave town. Lemarron said the bandages and supplies he used in his work were misconstrued as bandanas. He was charged with wearing a disguise.
 * During the arrest, his glasses were broken. Lemarron said he was protesting for “a better world” and a new democracy. “It’s in the past,” he said of his detention. “But I will not forget what they have done to me and others.”

Gabrielle Neveu, 21, Montreal
 * Neveu came to Toronto to raise awareness for better health care in developing countries. Neveu had a bandana around her neck. She agreed to let police search her bag but her boyfriend didn’t. The tension escalated. “I don’t think I would have got arrested if I was alone,” she said.
 * Police charged her with wearing a disguise. She was placed in the back of a police van that soon filled with other people. The van was taken to the detention centre where she stayed until Monday afternoon. Some people were strip-searched. “People were exhausted. No one had the energy to scream,” she said. The charge was later dropped.

Sasha Morrison, 28, Toronto
 * On Sunday, Morrison was talking to a friend on Queen St. when police searched her bag and discovered an air filter mask. She was charged with wearing a mask with intent. “I’m wearing a mask?” she said “It’s a bogus charge.”
 * Morrison, a graffiti artist, sometimes works on projects with police. As she stood talking to media, an officer came by and said “Good to see you,” not realizing she had been arrested. She was seething after a 19-hour detention. “I’m vegan. I haven’t had anything to eat until three hours ago.”

David Breed, 34, Toronto
 * On Sunday, Breed and his girlfriend had stopped to watch the bike rally and were planning to get something to eat before going home to change for his shift as a security guard. “I was not involved in the protest,” he said. “I was standing on the sidewalk.”
 * Breed was wearing black. Police searched him and found a retractable screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. He was arrested and charged with having concealed weapons. He’d had the knife since he was 10. Breed’s girlfriend, Jennifer Booth, had a legal number scrawled on her arm, but said she didn’t intend to get in trouble. “I’ve been to a lot of these things and he hasn’t,” she said after his release Monday. The charge against Breed has not been dropped.

Philip Dwek, 25, Toronto, medical student
 * On Sunday evening, Dwek was headed home after studying in a coffee shop when he ran into a crowd at the corner of Queen St. and Spadina Ave. He found himself surrounded by riot police.
 * “We were in the rain and it was freezing cold, I was trying to hide my medical book, trying to cover it under my shirt,” recalled Dwek, adding police eventually gave him a plastic bag for his book. He was arrested for conspiracy to cause mischief, put in a van and taken to 43 Division, then later released. It cost $60 to get back by taxi.
 * Dwek understands police were trying to prevent a repeat of the Saturday violence but wishes they were able to tell the protestors and bystanders from the “rebels without a cause.”

Joshua Enns, studying to be math teacher at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo
 * Enns was arrested during a prayer vigil on Sunday. Police took him behind a bus and searched his bag. He forgot about the “dollar store pocket knife” in his backpack he uses to cut fruit. He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
 * “I don’t endorse violence personally,” he said. “I didn’t come down for the show.” Enns was strip-searched at the detention centre. He couldn’t sleep with the fluorescent lights. He still faces the weapons charge. “Hopefully this will be cleared up so I’ll be able to teach.”

Matthew Beatty, 32, Ajax high school teacher
 * A volunteer legal observer with Movement Defence Committee (MDC) for the G20 weekend, Beatty was following a protest march down The Esplanade on Saturday evening when he was arrested. “I was on the sidewalks, never jeered or chanted with the crowd,” he said.
 * He was handcuffed and put in a “cage” with 20 others at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “There were 40 people in one cage — it was brutal, and it was cold.” People were asking for toilet paper to wrap their arms and legs because of the cold, he said. During 18 hours in custody, he was given three cheese sandwiches, three cups of water and a cup of flavoured juice.

Tim V. Wight, 23
 * Wight says he was at Queen’s Park participating in a peaceful protest all day Saturday. “I was there . . . to protest my concerns about the stripping of human rights within the city and the blatant waste of a billion dollars.”
 * When police entered the park, Wight began to ask questions about why they were entering a peaceful protest zone. Police told him to move and said they would hit him if he didn’t back up. He prepared to leave but then officers grabbed him, knocked him down and kicked him twice in the face with heavy boots. He was treated for a concussion and had to have his forehead stitched.

Maryam Adrangi, 24
 * The spokeswoman for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network was arrested Sunday outside activist “convergence space” at Queen and Noble on Sunday afternoon. She said she was driven around the city in an unmarked police van for four hours, taken to the detention centre for about 30 minutes and released without charge.
 * Adrangi, who was born in Iran, said she endured racist and sexist comments from police, who made fun of her name and the photos they took of her. “I was really angry and frustrated that the cops felt entitled to do that to people,” she said.
 * “One cop said to me, ‘If you were my daughter I would slap you in the mouth.’ ”

Joint lawsuit
Joint lawsuit


 * Of 1,090 people detained over the G20 period, 714 were charged with “breaching the peace” and taken into custody, according to police spokesperson Const. Tony Vella. All were eventually released unconditionally. (Some 113 were released at the scene of the arrest with no charge.)
 * According to section 31 of the criminal code, officers can arrest anyone found to be “committing the breach of the peace or who, on reasonable grounds, he believes is about to join in or renew the breach of peace.”
 * criminal lawyer Paul Calarco, there is “no legitimate basis” for many of this weekend’s arrests.
 * “Wearing a black t-shirt is not any basis for saying reasonable grounds (for arrest),” he argued. As for arresting peaceful demonstrators en masse, “that is not a proper use of Section 31. That is an intimidation tactic,” he said.
 * “Standing on the sidewalk and exercising your constitutional rights is not a breach of the peace.”
 * 263 of those arrested were charged with criminal offences — some because they had pocket knives or similar common items in their backpacks — and were sent for bail hearings.
 * Some people who were arrested will probably argue their Charter rights were violated, said Jonathan Dawe, criminal lawyer with Sack Goldblatt Mitchell. He pointed to reports of people being denied their right to legal counsel or to not be arbitrarily arrested or detained.
 * “I can’t imagine how (police) could not have known that what they were doing is unlawful,” Dawe said. “I’m shocked at what seems to have been a wholesale decision on the part of the police to abandon the Charter.”
 * multiple reports have emerged alleging peaceful demonstrators or even bystanders were caught up in the mass arrests — most notably, at the Esplanade’s Novotel Hotel on Saturday, where demonstrators tried to stage a sit-in, or at Queen St. and Spadina Ave., where a large crowd was boxed in and detained for several hours in the rain.
 * Public Service Alliance of Canada, Greenpeace and 121 signatories from the York University faculty recently joining the chorus of voices asking for an independent probe. The Criminal Lawyers’ Association is also calling for an independent fact-finder to probe
 * NDP critic Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) has requested the House of Commons public safety committee be recalled to study issues surrounding summit security
 * NDP Leader Andrea Horwath also blasted the Liberals for bungling the issue since the Star broke the story last Friday. “The entire thing is a mess and it’s an absolute absurdity,” said Horwath. “There needs to be an independent review as to what happened.”

All arrests this weekend were made under the criminal code and not the Public Works Protection Act, according to the province.
 * The provincial government is also coming under increasing fire for its handling of a controversial regulation created under the Public Works Protection Act. Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak deflected blame from the police and said the public’s ire should be directed towards the “slippery and cowardly” Premier Dalton McGuinty for secretly making a regulatory change that police interpreted as giving them more power.

Des Rosiers said the CCLA has been overwhelmed with phone calls and has already collected 75 complaints from people claiming they were wrongfully imprisoned, detained, harassed or assaulted by the police.

Adam Suska, a 32-year-old supply teacher. After watching a Queen’s Park demonstration on Sunday, Suska was walking towards Bloor St. and Spadina Ave. when police officers stopped him and asked about his black t-shirt.

Following Saturday’s trail of destruction caused by protesters using Black Bloc tactics, there were multiple reports of summit police targeting people dressed in black.

Suska claims police called him a “piece of s---” and asked for identification, which he didn’t have. He was arrested for breaching the peace and taken to the Eastern Ave. temporary jail, where he was released without charge after eight hours.

Suska said the experience has shaken his faith in police and he now has trouble sleeping. He said he would definitely be open to a joint lawsuit or class-action suit.

“I felt just disgraced and so ashamed,” Suska said. “I shouldn’t have to feel like that just for walking down the street.”

Pressure for an independent probe
Pressure for an independent probe of Toronto’s G20
 * international human rights groups
 * Canadian Civil Liberties Association released a preliminary report that said “police conduct during the G20 summit was at times disproportionate, arbitrary and excessive,”
 * Amnesty International Canada also demanded the provincial or federal government hold an inquiry, saying that, even before the mass arrests were triggered by a violent rampage downtown, “protesters were faced with high fences, new weaponry, massive surveillance, and the intimidating impact of the overwhelming police presence.”
 * opposition parties in Ottawa
 * NDP Leader Jack Layton on Tuesday called for the Commons public safety committee to be “seized with this matter and require an accountability report on both the spending side and on the operations side” of the billion-dollar-plus meeting of world leaders.
 * Facebook group that has grown to more than 18,000 members
 * an internal task force will examine “all aspects” of summit policing by the municipal forces, OPP and RCMP in the G20 Integrated Security Unit