The protest, organized by the "Freedom Convoy," started at noon at Queen’s Park, with protesters carrying signs and chanting against COVID-19 mandates, including proof of vaccination in certain indoor settings.
City officials and police learned about the planned protest earlier this week, prompting them to prepare for similar disruptions brought on from the ongoing protest in Ottawa."We have a plan in place, we have significant road closures here. We will not be allowing access anywhere near the Queen's Park area, and we have a number of ,and that's for people to protest safely, for the people in the area to not be disrupted too much," Staff Supt. Lauren Pogue told CP24.
“The service is required to facilitate peaceful demonstrations,” Police Chief James Ramer told reporters at a briefing Friday. “This will be balanced by our priority to ensure public safety to protect hospitals and infrastructure and the city's emergency response needs.” A portion of University Avenue has been closed off in order to protect Hospital Row, police said. The closure will be in place all weekend but hospital staff, workers, patients and people collecting patients will have access.
"The goal is to let Torontonians know that we want to ensure that they will have unfettered access to hospitals in downtown, to community-based clinics in downtown, and to let our colleagues who are working in the hospitals today know that they should feel safe and secure walking the streets dressed however they want to, in their white coats," Dr. Philip Berger, organizer of the Access to Care rally, told CP24.
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Lookit all these Trump supporters…
I was just down there & it felt like a circus. Very strange things going on down there! I was slammed into twice by men for wearing my mask. I was at the protest to support the doctors & nurses & an ant masker pushed a women down! I seen a lot of hate & alcohol. Not good!
IDIOTS.
Jobless animals
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Just one ?
The other bs about this is 99% of the time these hypocrites hate seeing trucks on the roads eh they're only taking advantage of the situation to be morons 😡😏
And where is our so called leaders of Ontario? Why aren't fordnation , celliottability and SylviaJonesMPP talking brave now ? I bet they are all hiding somewhere together.
Embarrassing…
Anti-mandate 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I never thought I will see so much ignorance in an apparently well educated first world country 🤦🏻♀️a lot of selfishness going around , people need to understand that we live in a society, is not only about your rights…when do health care workers acted like that?
No mention of the Hit & Run Attack on these protesters that seriously injured people last night?
Good! About time people other than BLM or BIPOC blocks streets. HonkHonk
Police are now removing a bunch of RV’s out of Queens Park. Multiple complaints that there not being any washroom or shower facilities, & can’t find the water or hydro hook ups.
What's the definition of a huge crowd? Either give an estimate or just call it a crowd