{"id":9112,"date":"2023-10-08T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2023-10-08T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T16:31:51","slug":"insane-police-closure-of-downtown-toronto-streets-the-system-fears-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9112","title":{"rendered":"Insane Police Closure of Downtown Toronto Streets: The System Fears the People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Downtown Toronto roads reopen after expected protest didn&#8217;t materialize<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toronto-Freedom-Protest-October-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toronto-Freedom-Protest-October-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toronto-Freedom-Protest-October-7.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toronto-Freedom-Protest-October-7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toronto-Freedom-Protest-October-7-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roads around Queen&#8217;s Park, hospital row were closed for several hours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Sep 26, 2023 5:07 AM PDT | Last Updated: September 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6978240.1695729884!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/toronto-street-closures.JPG\" alt=\"Toronto police cruisers and City of Toronto garbage trucks block access to a downtown road.\"\/><figcaption>Toronto police used cruisers, SUVs and city garbage trucks to temporarily block road access to the provincial legislature on Tuesday. (Clara Pasieka\/CBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto police reopened roads around Queen&#8217;s Park and hospital row in the downtown core Tuesday after an anticipated convoy-style protest didn&#8217;t materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police had closed stretches of Queen&#8217;s Park Crescent, University Avenue and Wellesley Street for several hours in advance of what they said was a possible&nbsp;&#8220;demonstration involving a large number of vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closures were intended to keep emergency routes to downtown hospitals open and limit other disruptions in the area, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet announcing the road reopenings, police said they would &#8220;continue to monitor, assess, and act upon the latest, credible information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We thank the public for their patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, Insp. Suzanne Redman said a&nbsp;protest was planned by an informal group calling itself &#8220;Save the Children,&#8221; unrelated to the international non-profit organization of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a heavy police presence throughout the morning on the grounds of the provincial legislature, which included officers from the Toronto Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/gta-sexual-education-protests-1.6972566\">protests and counter-protests framed around gender and sexual education in schools<\/a> took place across the GTA and Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Toronto roads reopen after expected protest didn&#8217;t materialize Roads around Queen&#8217;s Park, hospital row were closed for several hours CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Sep 26, 2023 5:07 AM PDT | Last Updated: September 26 Toronto police reopened roads around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2966,5142,2893,5143,3048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}