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Raptors take over the city

Posted: June 17, 2019 in events, people
Tags: banners, baseball caps, basketball, Canadian flag, celebrate, champagne, crowds, dump truck, flags, nathan phillips square, parade, people, Raptors, red, signs, T-shirts, team, video, we the north, wine

Today was the day of the parade to celebrate the Raptors NBA Championship win. Today was the day that downtown was immobilized. Like many of the thousands (millions) of people, I couldn’t get anywhere near the parade. I also couldn’t get into Nathan Phillips Square, the end point of the parade. I am not sure I wanted to! Too crowded. Besides, walking around the periphery of Nathan Phillips Square still gave me a plethora of opportunities to take lots of pictures of people out celebrating.

below: Bay Street was one of the many streets that were closed. Two large screens showed footage of the parade as it progressed. In this photo, you can see a sea of red at the Prince’s gates, the entrance to the Exhibition grounds.

below: A larger picture of the screen. This photo was taken at 10:49 a.m. The parade was supposed to start at 10 a.m. I am not sure what time it arrived at Nathan Phillips Square, I was already long gone by the time it did.

below: Red for Manchester United as well!

protest and counter protest

Posted: March 26, 2019 in events, people
Tags: fascism, flags, immigration, people, politics, protest

On Saturday there was another small protest by a group that goes by the name PEGIDA which is actually an acronym for a German organization that can probably be called far right. The protest attracted a counter protest by a larger group of people. By the time I passed by, police and metal barricades stood between the two groups. Apparently the protest had planned to walk down University Ave. but the counter protest prevented them from doing so.

below: “Smash racism, no platform for fascists”

below: Patriots of Canada Against the Islamization of the West . P is for Patriot, whatever you think that that word means or implies.

below: “Fascism is a death cult” and “Nationalism is for losers”.

below: “When the state protects bigots, hate is state sanctioned.”

Greek Independence Day Parade

Posted: March 25, 2019 in events, locations, people
Tags: banners, Canadian flags, crowd, flags, genocide, Greek, Greek flags, groups, Helles, Macedoia, parade, people, spectators

Greek Independence Day is March 25, comemorating the start of the War of Greek Independence in 1821. Prior to that, they had been part of the Ottoman Empire for almost 400 years, since 1453. Yesterday there was a parade along the Danforth to mark the occasion.

There were people with banners representing many groups including the Cultural Society of Kilkis and Suburbs,

the Thessalon Federation of Ontario, and many more,

below: There was only one float in the parade. It was a memorial to those who died in the Greek genocide during and after WW1 when the Christian Ottoman Greeks living in Anatolia (now part of Turkey) were killed or driven out.

Go Go Gadget

Posted: September 19, 2018 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: #keep6hah, airplane, alley, Dave Setrakian, flags, hand, Inspector Gagdet, Kensington, lane, mural, painting, palm tree, parrot, passport, realistic, scooter, television, TV, yellow car

There’s a new mural in one of the Kensington alleys! It was painted recently by Dave Setrakian. It is also too long, and the alley too narrow, to get a good picture of the whole mural.

below: A parrot, an airplane and some Italian.

below: An Immigration Canada stamp from the 29th of May 1986 beside an Italian flag just out of reach.

below: Inspector Gadget appears on TV – a kids’ cartoon produced in the 1980’s.

below: A little yellow car with an Armenian flag in the back passenger window.

below: A large palm tree grows here, along with a Kuwaiti passport stamp and Kuwaiti flag

Labour Day Parade 2018

Posted: September 3, 2018 in events, people
Tags: ACTRA, AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Transit Union, Canadian Media Guild, CNE, CP24, CUPE, dog, Doug Ford, flags, IATSE, Jennifer Keesmaat, justice, lock out, millwrights, NDP, OPSEU, parade, pay equality, people, placards, protest, rights, sex ed, signs, slogans, Sprinkler Fitters of Ontario, Toronto Civic Employees Union, TTC, unions

below: IATSE Local 58 led the parade this year. They have been locked out of the CNE who brought in workers from Quebec and Alberta to help set up the Ex this year. Usually the parade ends at the CNE grounds at the Dufferin Gate and participants get free admission to the Ex. This year, the parade ended at Lamport Stadium instead.

below: Mayoral candidate, Jennifer Keesmaat, walked in the parade with the IATSE locals. At Bathurst St., the groups at the front slowed down to let the others catch up. At that point, Keesmaat was interviewed by CP24.