Toronto police say they arrested eight people and 29 charges were laid at a demonstration downtown Saturday.
In a news release Sunday, the Toronto Police Service said its officers attended a demonstration at Nathan Phillips Square, located in the area of Queen Street W. and Bay Street, at around 2 p.m.
Dozens gathered at Nathan Phillips Square Saturday to protest mass immigration, prompting a counter-protest and a news conference with city councillors and opposing groups.
Ahead of the anti-immigration rally, Coun. Neethan Shan (Scarborough-Rouge Park) and Coun. Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) joined groups such as the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations to denounce racism and xenophobia, the Toronto & York Region Labour Council said in a news release.
From this article, also about the protests.
Canada First Movement founder and president Joe Anidjar said he started the initiative in 2024 to send a message across the country.
“Before, we had a great immigration system where people came here, they knew they had to work hard,” he told CBC Toronto Saturday. “Now we’re paying for people’s livelihoods. And that’s just not the way. That’s not where I want my tax dollars going.”
Anidjar added he wants to see more money go towards homelessness and mental illness support within the city, rather than towards wars overseas.
Coun. Neethan Shan (Scarborough-Rouge Park) told CBC Toronto he wants the affected communities to know Toronto stands in solidarity with them.
“This xenophobia, these anti-refugee, anti-immigrant sentiments that are being spread deliberately to cause fear, deliberately to create a foundation for further racism and hate needs to be stopped,” he said.
Anidjar said that’s not what’s happening.
“If you take a look around, it’s very multicultural. It’s people from all different backgrounds and races,” he said. “At the end of the day, we want to preserve our culture, our identity and our way of life.”
FFS…our culture is more mixing pot than most countries with high immigration, and has been for ages. If you look up this chucklefuck’s name one of the top results is his FB page, and he’s wearing a Make Canada Great Again hat. So as it seems from the above, he’s a racist Maple MAGA POS.
If you take a look around, it’s very multicultural. It’s people from all different backgrounds and races,
And look at ICE, there’s a shit tonne of Hispanic and African-American people who don’t understand that they’re next for the meat grinder…
Imagine looking at the current state of temporary foreign workers holding being abused in our minimum wage jobs and thinking “the problem is that these immigrants don’t want to work, and we’re subsidizing their living!”
Fuck, at least neo-nazis are honest. With these guys, you have to explain yourself when you lay one out.
I guarantee you this guy IS a neo-nazi. He’s doing a smart play, actually like it’s not about racism, get folk thinking:
Well, shit, I think something should be done about the homeless situation, and if the immigrants are being given the money that could help the homeless then fuck those guys.
Few months down the line they’re getting swastikas and other stolen symbols now used for hate on the nipples or some shit…
Toronto police say … Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police
Apparently the CBC, normally the closest thing Canada has to good journalism, knows only what the police have told them about this event.
Dunno what the cops are whining about. This was just payback for the 2010 G20 fiasco.
The story is very confusing. Or maybe it’s just too early and I can’t process the info yet?
