Victory for Queen West residents! The Toronto Police have issued a release saying the designated protest zone will no longer be in the beloved, grassy, cherry tree-lined Trinity Bellwoods Park.
News Release
Toronto Police Service
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 1:42 PM
The Integrated Security Unit, in partnership with the City of Toronto,
has made the decision to move the Designated Speech Area from Trinity
Bellwoods Park for the G20 Summit.
Following discussions with the community in and around the
Trinity-Bellwoods area, a decision was made to find an alternate location for the Designated Speech Area. We are currently considering options.
So where is the next brilliant location they’ll come up with? The Gardiner Ceramics Museum? Summerhill LCBO?
No new location for the protest zone has been announced, but the Integrated Security Unit said they will finalize the new plan in the next couple of days. MP Olivia Chow has told her constituents it will be in Queen's Park, but police would not confirm if that was true. City Councillor Adam Vaughan said a planned march will begin in Queen's Park, but that is not the location of the free speech area.
Update: The headline about holding the protest in the Ceramics Museum was a joke. Obviously there was a lot of concern about holding the protest in a park, and moving it to a liquor store or museum would be equally bad ideas. Message received: no sarcasm in the Globe and Mail.
