Tag: protest
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Sheridan responds to controversial anti-abortion activists
BY TYLER CHOI Over the past week, the Sheridan College community made their voices heard following a visit by a provocative anti-abortion activism group, which staged a protest at Trafalgar Campus on Sept. 15. The group displayed graphic signs with visuals of bloody fetuses and challenged students for their views on abortion. For two days,…
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Provincial budget talks met with protest in Hamilton
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN While government bureaucrats recessed in the warm east ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel downtown Hamilton, union workers, labour activists and other protestors raged outside in the freezing cold against the Ontario government’s new austerity measures. Last Monday, officials from the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs hosted a public hearing so…
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Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision
VIDEO BY DARYLL HINVES On Nov. 25, the day after a grand jury decided not to press charges on Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the University ave. courthouse in Toronto to show solidarity for the people of Ferguson and protest police brutality and…
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Raising a voice against racism
STORY BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” This was one of the many phrases chanted by a raucous crowd of people of all backgrounds who packed Toronto’s University Ave. to show solidarity for the events of Ferguson, MO. Thousands gathered in front of the Superior Court of Justice building on Tuesday night, across the…