Introducing Canadians Advocating Political Participation:

Untitled from on Vimeo.

The best part is that they’re doing it in a fun way. They simply ask can an onion ring be more popular on facebook than Stephen Harper?

I think the answer is yes. The group stared Feb 02 and two days later, well check the screenshot I took at 3:20.

Onion ring FTW

As of this writing the number is at 25,696 at 3:30.

5pm update: Onion wins!

It’s a great bookstore that I have visited many times and has been a great resource for a lot of my readings for school.

A Facebook group has been created to spread the word and Torontoist has a post on the current situation and a bit on their history:

One of the last and largest non-profit feminist bookstores in North America, the thirty-six-year-old TWB has weathered its share of troubled times: in 1984 the store was firebombed along with a then-attached Henry Morgentaler abortion clinic, in the 1990s it pulled itself out of the red in a time when most of North America’s feminist bookstores went under, and in the early years of this decade it resisted a post-9/11 wannabe boycott waged in response to the sale of politically controversial buttons.

Keep reading at Torontoist.

Here the police use an arrested protester as a trophy in a photo-op:

The moral of the story: never go to Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, here in Canada we have police officers dipping into victims’ cash.

It’s a good thing I forgot I had this blog during the London G20 get-together because that would’ve kept me busy blogging too.

New-ish tactics used by the police force are a great way to use force to contain people without leaving evidence of what they did.

From the Guardian’s article on the use of the sonic cannon:

Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.

But US security forces turned the piercing sound on their own citizens yesterday to widespread outrage. Pittsburgh officials told the New York Times that it was the first time “sound cannon” had been used publicly.

[Warning: the video below contains very loud audio from the start]

BoingBoing has even more on the sound cannon:

Click here to see more footage from the BBC on police intervention and peaceful protesting.

So one evening Bryant and Sheppard got in a scuffle and Bryant seems to have decided (after drinking teat evening) to use his car has a deadly weapon and drag the cyclist along Bloor street. Bryant is such a good driver that he was able to drive into the opposing lane while Sheppard was dangling on the side of Bryant’s vehicle and ram Sheppard into a couple trees and a mailbox thus fatally wounding Sheppard.

This is what happened moments before the accused Michael Bryant killed a man.

How long do you think it’ll be before Bryant’s press team shows up and posts a comment defending him?

Surprisingly, (or on par with Toronto’s attitude towards drivers) the police officer says nothing to the driver who nearly assaulted an officer of the law.