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Update May 26, 2010 - This update was posted due to the great interest in the subject matters of the demonstration. I am not 100 percent sure about the demonstration but I believe it was organized in protest of the closure of a health centre located next door. The building where the people are gathering is a community centre which provides recreation and other programs for the very dispossessed people living in the area. These people are the poorest of the poor in Canada and many of them are on drugs and have health issues such as HIV.
The regional health authority removed funding for the health centre recently because it said that the same services were being provided at another location in the neighbourhood. The residents disagree with this assessment and so took to the streets. This is only one of a series of demonstrations on this matter. When I passed through the area on the transit bus the crowd was just getting organized.
Thank you to my readers for your keen interest in these photos.
it looks orderly. Thank God for freedom of speech.
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I wonder what is the demonstration about?
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What were they demonstrating? Looks as if it was peaceful.
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Indeed, very peaceful and orderly. Wish the red shirts in Bangkok had been the same way. Instead, we are looking at billions of dollars in damages and loss...
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Ya, it's great when demonstations are civil huh. Wonder what was up?
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Hello to all my lovely readers :-) Thank you all for your comments and your keen interest. I have added an update to the post (which was supposed to be Wordless, lol!) to explain what I think the crowd was gathering about.
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Indeed, very peaceful and orderly. Wish the red shirts in Bangkok had been the same way. Instead, we are looking at billions of dollars in damages and loss...
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