This photograph is a pretty accurate depiction of what I actually looked like when Canada won the gold. This is saying a lot since, I don’t normally get into sports, nor even like hockey for that matter – I find it too chaotic, and rushed. Soccer (football) is more calculated, I feel like its more of a strategical game than ‘lets throw our bodies, sticks, arms, legs in the path of the puck, and hope it goes into the net’.
I was going to keep my mouth shut about this, but I decided that its been a couple days since it happened, and I’m still kind of annoyed about it, so here I am posting about it.
On Sunday afternoon I had just gotten off the bus at Queen and Carlaw. I had waited for the light to change so that I would have the proper signal to walk, and cross the street safely. The bus I just got off was waiting there at the corner as well.
Protesters stop traffic at Younge and Dundas in Toronto, in front of the Eaton Centre
I was downtown last night about go to see my bandmate Ben Keith go play a show not too far from the Eaton Centre. It was a pretty nice night, so I decided to walk from my apartment at Bloor and Spadina down to the area he was playing at.
Coming down Younge St, there was a huge ruckus – More Tamil protests.
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already seen the video, and pictures of their group of people running up the Spadina rd, Gardener exit, and then right into oncoming traffic on the Gardner Freeway – all during rush hour in downtown Toronto.
I believe that these people have a right to be protesting, and in fact are doing a great job at it. They’ve reached the point of causing the regular joe a bit of a headache, enough to make them stop and think, and maybe go onto the ‘internets’ and research a bit about what they’re complaining about.
citynews.ca
Nearly 4,000 civilians (in Sri Lanka) have been forced to flee over the past few days as the fighting moves closer. It’s estimated some 200,000 people are waiting out the war in crowded displacement camps.
Please do yourself a favor, and before you start complaining about minor inconveniences that these protesters are causing, do a quick google search, and learn something about their cause.