Various demo stories of the day
The owner of the Saint-Bock bar on Saint-Denis wants to sue the SPVM after they aimed a pepper-spray bomb at people on his terrasse on Saturday night. OpenFile has an on-the-ground report on the first night of demonstration after the passage of Bill 78 and the McGill Daily has a Storify with images.
Some thoughts from different pundits: Maclean’s Emmett Macfarlane points out Bill 78′s weaknesses: things the government wanted illegal were already illegal, but it casts a shadow of possible illegality over other forms of normal, nondestructive protest.
Marie-Claude Lortie quotes several other pundits of varying political shades, none of whom has a good thing to say about this ad-hoc piece of legislation.
Voir has a 15-point manifesto against Bill 78 from philosopher Daniel Weinstock.
Ian 14:20 on 2012/05/20 Permalink
I don’t know how anyone could watch that surveillance footage and still claim the cops are “just doing their jobs”. This in the quartier latin… and people say the protests are going to affect tourism!
exolstice 18:54 on 2012/05/20 Permalink
Seriously. These so-called “law enforcement” officers should be arrested and thrown in jail.