Norman Spector
Olympics, G20 and Black Bloc
How do we explain the difference between Vancouver and Toronto?
Globe editorial
Bring clarity to vague summit laws
Some flesh should be added to the bare bones of the legislation that permitted the creation of security zones that almost emptied Canada's largest financial district.
John Ibbitson
Kudos in order as PM shepherds G20 to surprising consensus
Stephen Harper guides leaders of world's largest and most influential economies to an accord that surprised even the leaders themselves
Globe editorial
Security costs, handling of protests raise questions
This is the major conundrum: Only major cities can host such gatherings, but future G20 meetings should not produce another Toronto
Globe editorial
Deficit-reduction agreement clear, welcome
But fulfilment of the G20 commitment may prove elusive in some cases.
Jeffrey Simpson
The G20 summit’s bottom line? Good intentions
The communiqué was a ringing endorsement of what countries are already doing, or intend to accomplish
Naomi Klein
Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers’ crisis
How else can we interpret the G20 communiqué that includes not even a measly tax on financial transactions?
Marcus Gee
They took Toronto's streets, but for what?
It was a day like this city has never seen and hoped it never would
Roy MacGregor
A humbler summit that produced big results
Small community in Newfoundland saw Roosevelt and Churchill agree on important Atlantic Charter in clandestine 1941 meeting
Christie Blatchford
Brunch with G20 spouses, guests worth the effort
After being secluded in her office for months to write her upcoming book, Christie Blatchford re-emerges to dine with the G20 nations’ first women
