I can agree with that.The story was reported quite fairly I thought. No mention at all of the evil police state arresting citizens at will.
Yeah, some of the comments are hyper left-wing, but those are comments and have nothing to do with the CBC as an organization. And this has already been mentioned in the thread by other posters. Pretty balanced, slightly left-of-center reporting, very left wing comments by the public.
Their submission guidelines basically say: "Don't be racist/sexist, don't swear, and don't post porno."
I can agree with that.
Here is a fantastic though perhaps overly dramatic video of Day One of the G20 in Toronto.
Don't believe me the CBC is an ultra left wing organization? Look at this story
Family hit by G20 raid say police overreached
Then just have a look in the comment section.
Security reasons? 20 World Leaders on 1 boat?
I understand protesting. I don't understand the people that go with the intention of creating violence. I also don't understand spending $1 Billion on one or 2 meetings (G8 + G20). Way to go "conservatives".
The police incompetence is simply mind boggling. Let's review.
- A billion fucking dollars spent
- a massive number of cops on the street in the days before.
- a ridiculous show-of-force on Friday (I saw full riot gear cops assembled against a small crowd of people dancing behind a truck with huge speaker in the bed)
- using horses to disperse peaceful protesters from the designated protest zone, while a small band troublemakers smash windows and set cars on fire
- (today) starting to arrest anybody that even looks at them wrong.
Overall, quite pathetic.
It's more Harper's incompetence for picking downtown Toronto that necessitated the $1b security bill. Having it out in the middle of nowhere would have been much more sensible.
I think the cops have done a decent job. Remember, their primary job is to protect the G20 and they are doing that. Running down the hooligans... well they are arresting a lot of people, but when there are that many, it's kind of hard.
There may be mistakes being made, but at least it's not a repeat of APEC in Vancouver in 1997. The police have evolved since then, but the protesters have devolved.
Absolute fucking piss off. Just came back from New York (didn't really like it), and see the city raped.
Walked down Yonge from Dundas up, and IIRC, only the HMV was boarded up Friday evening. About 20 other stores were now boarded, and from what I hear, they were shit canned. The American Apparel got a bag of shit thrown in after assholes broke the windows. The Bell store close to College got completely trashed; apparently people went in and stole or trashed the cell phones ($500 says those retards all own Blackberries).
Sounds like they arrested a bunch of these retards this morning in the U of T campus. Too bad they'll all be out within a week.
no, the tea party want people left alone. the g20 types are the types that "know" whats best for everyone else. the types that are insane busy bodies if they ever get into power and wreck sh*t. instead of working for solutions themselves, whether it be environmental or aid, they tend to try to force others to deliver on their wishful thinking. "highly educated" liberal arts folks, who push conspiracies and other nonsense...theres plenty of irrationality in that crowd.
"progressives" being "progressives"
Anti globalization..anti materialism anti capitalism!!!...
oh hey..free cellphones!!
Anti globalization..anti materialism anti capitalism!!!...
oh hey..free cellphones!!
MLK?
The Republican?