Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
2015/11/15
2009/07/07
Film Screening: H2Oil
Last night Olivia Chow hosted a screening of H2Oil at the Bloor cinema.
The film portrays the alarming story of what the tar sands are doing to the water in the Athabasca river. All sorts of run off is getting into the river and contaminating the drinking supply. The film mainly focused around how this contamination is affecting a first nations community, but also on some water bottlers (because they were friends of the film maker). The latter focus noticeably weakened the film's impact.
The film portrays the alarming story of what the tar sands are doing to the water in the Athabasca river. All sorts of run off is getting into the river and contaminating the drinking supply. The film mainly focused around how this contamination is affecting a first nations community, but also on some water bottlers (because they were friends of the film maker). The latter focus noticeably weakened the film's impact.
2009/05/29
Critical Mass (of police) May '09
Unfortunately, Mass was besieged by police again this month. They only seem to come out to bug us in the summer months.
They don't like fun.
I overheard one of them justifying their party-poopery saying that they were just enforcing the law. If so, they should then have given us all tickets for tail gating, and noise violations. The goal wasn't to enforce the law, but to discourage cycling advocacy. What else is new?
Other than the preponderance of negative Nellies, it was a great Mass, with tonnes of energy and hundreds of folks out to have a safe, respectful good time. Too bad that Dredd & Co. showed up.
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