Pinned
The new tenant-focused issue of The Grind is out now around the city!
Here are a few highlights... 🧵
The Grind
1,849 posts
The Grind
@TheGrindTO
Toronto's progressive politics & culture print mag.
Find it for FREE in 30 TTC subway stations, and 300 other GTA locations.
info at thegrindmag dot ca
- Hours into Saturday's Palestinian Land Day rally, peaceful thus far, Toronto police stopped it, deployed over 100 officers, rode horses through the crowd knocking people over, injured several, and arrested six. Here we'll share some of what happened, and an article is coming.🧵
- BREAKING: A student-led encampment is up at the University of Toronto at King's College Circle. Over 200 people. They are calling for the university to divest from institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid, occupation and the genocide in Gaza. #UofT #Palestine đź“·@ferjourno
- Dozens of people have shut the rail line at Osler St. and Pelham Ave. in Toronto in solidarity with Palestine. They are calling on the Canadian government to immediately impose a full two-way arms embargo on Israel as its attacks on Gaza continue. đź“·Photo by Ian Willms
- Outside a Yorkville restaurant where Deputy Prime Minster @cafreeland and MP @YaaraSaks are scheduled to hold a dinner for supporters, protestors are standing at entrances and singing. A dozen or so cops on scene, at least six cruisers.
- NOW: Eighty people have blocked the entrances to TTM Technologies in Scarborough. This plant makes circuit boards for Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems, slated for use in F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and other equipment used to attack Gaza. Coverage in collab with @thehoser
- Protest in Union Station as of 20 mins ago, calling for ceasefire in Gaza and arms embargo with Israel. đź“· @ferjourno
- The day after @MayorOliviaChow denounced the rally that passed by Mount Sinai Hospital as antisemitic, the mayor said on CBC Metro Morning: “I wasn’t there. I haven’t seen a police report on that event. Right now, there seems to be different interpretations.” However... 🧵
- NEW: Violent Crackdown at Land Day March Police ride horses through crowd, injure several and arrest six at rally otherwise similar to the ones which have happened each weekend since October.
- We have updated this article to add that the University Ave. entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital closes on weekdays at 6 p.m., which is approximately two hours before the "Hands Off Rafah" rally passed by and when a group of people climbed on that entrance's awning.NEW: What happened during the Hands Off Rafah protest in Toronto on Monday, including during the approx 15 minutes it passed outside Mount Sinai Hospital, and the wave of denunciations that followed. By @dgrdon. thegrindmag.ca/what-happened-…
- NEW: What happened during the Hands Off Rafah protest in Toronto on Monday, including during the approx 15 minutes it passed outside Mount Sinai Hospital, and the wave of denunciations that followed. By @dgrdon.
- A Palestine solidarity encampment went up early this morning up at York University. Demands are similar to others: disclose, divest and boycott institutions and companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza. đź“· York Popular University 4 Palestine
- Pro-Palestine protestors are now occupying Liberal MP Arif Virani's constituency office in Toronto. A crowd is growing outside. Virani has not called for a ceasefire.
