Occupy Canada Under Pressure - Toronto overturns eviction

Toronto

just hours after the forced removal of the New York camp where the Occupy movement first took root, Toronto police accompanied bylaw officers who pinned sheets of paper to tents requesting that all traces of the campsite be removed immediately. Read more: www.montrealgazette.com...

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NOTICE UNDER THE TRESPASS TO PROPERTY ACT – NOVEMBER 15, 2011 You are herby given notice that you are prohibited from engaging in the following activities in St. James Park and in any other City of Toronto park: Installing, erecting or maintaining a tent, shelter or other structure; Using, entering or gathering in the park between the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The City of Toronto herby directs you immediately to stop engaging in the activities listed above and to remove immediately any tent, shelter, structure, equipment and debris from St. James Park. If you do not immediately remove any and all tents, shelters, structure, equipment and debris from St. James Park, such tents, shelters, structures, equipment and debris shall be removed from St. James Park by or on behalf of the City of Toronto. You are further ordered immediately to stop using, entering or gathering in St. James Park between the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Please be advised that this notice may be enforced in accordance with the provision of the Trespass to Property Act, R.S.O. 1990 c. T21 or by any other legal means available to the City of Toronto. Please be further advised that under the Trespass to Property Act, every person who engages in an activity on premises when the activity has been prohibited under the Act is guilty of an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine of not more than $2,000. User Tools

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Posted on OccupyTO`s Facebook page

ALL OUT TONIGHT! 11pm! The city has told us that all equipment must be removed from the site today, and that all people must be out of the park between 12:00am and 5:30am Therefore, defending the occupation is a simple enough matter: Pack the park with thousands of people between 12:00am to 5:30am making it very very hard for them to forcibly remove protesters from the park. If you don't want to put yourself in the direct line of attack for the police, then please come out and watch from outside the park. Our best defense against police brutality is many many witnesses!

Videos regarding the plan
Occupy Toronto protesters organizing eviction strategy plan

We continue to follow the developments after eviction notices were issued to Occupy Toronto protesters at St. James Park.

The Occupy group here in Toronto has been very peaceful, few arrests, bairly any confrontations between protesters and police. They have been very organized right from the get go, managing to feed and provide shelter and toilets to all who come. Although they are breaking laws, and are seen as a nuisance by a small minority, I think they are doing the right thing, the inconvenience of their stay in the park far outweighs the toubles caused by the force that drove them there in the first place. Go figure our mayor has not visited the site once, then again why would he, his bell is full off the system being protested.

By the way this is one of the 3 Yurts currently set up in the park, one is a place for general use and assembly, another a medical tent and I believe people fighting addictions, the last is a library, I hope they are not destroyed Tonight.


You might want to watch the Livestream later this evening.

Occupy Calgary recieved a simillar notice this morning, and Occupy Halifax was taken down on the 12th, so there seems to be higher motivation beyond the bi-laws being broken to stop this movement.

Occupy Toronto wins injunction to stop eviction from park,

I am seeing this on a CBC breaking news ticker.

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i will update with a better source

A lawyer representing Occupy protesters in Toronto has won an injunction against a city eviction notice that was issued earlier Tuesday. Late Tuesday afternoon, Judge David Brown granted a temporary stay of the city's eviction notice to protesters occupying St. James Park. Brown said he needs more information before he can rule on the city's plan to remove protesters from the park. The judge will hold a hearing on Friday to further discuss the matter and deliver his verdict by 6 p.m. ET on Saturday.

In Victoria, the city is expected to apply for an injunction to remove tents from the camp at Centennial Square on Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court. Protesters say they will be asking for an adjournment to prepare their legal arguments. In Regina, police handed out tickets to five men and two women in Victoria Park late Monday, arresting one man who was intoxicated. The seven were charged with violating the Regina Parks and Open Space Bylaw, which bans people from remaining in parks between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Occupy demonstrators' tents were already removed from London, Ont., and Halifax camps last week. In Halifax, police dismantled tents in Victoria Park on Friday and 14 people were arrested — all accused of obstructing justice. In Saint John, where protesters are camping in the city's central square, a city councillor said Monday night it was time to end the encampment. The showdowns of various intensity across the country were not universal, however. In Montreal, authorities said they are in no hurry to take action against protesters who are camped out in front of the city's stock exchange tower for the past month. Montreal police inspector Marc St-Cyr says the city's position has always been the same since the tents first went up on Oct. 15: tolerance and safety. He says things won't change as long as the protesters follow the advice of the fire service when it comes to potential dangers and there are no excesses or crime.

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