Million March for Children

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So that Million March for Children or whatever they call it is today, Sept 20.

Its supposed to be in cities all over Canada (is it international?)

I'm gonna go to the one in my town. I want to see who shows up, what the tone is etc.
My expectations are low for my small town, but optimistic for larger cities.


Mostly, I'm curious how it will play out politically.

Almost ALL mainstream media, school boards, teachers unions, politicians are SLANDERING it outright, obsessed with using the word 'HATE'.
They frame the protest as an act of 'hatred', as if they all want to lynch and hang all the trans kids. They accuse the movement of being racist, hateful, bigots etc. It's really terrible the way they are framing it.

Reminds me of the way the Freedom Convoy was slandered but looks way worse.

Vids are surfacing of tanks and riot gear being prepared in Toronto.

With someone like Trudeau in charge, it is a 100% certainty that he will embolden the negative spin on it, and considering that he pulled the Emergencies Act to violently bust up the Convoy in Ottawa and jail those Coutts guys, WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WILL DO WITH THIS PROTEST?


I am nervous for it to be honest.
Leaving in a few minutes here, I'll report

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Good point by my man Jeremy Mackenzie

Why do this on a weekday in the middle of the day?
Most parents work

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Just got back.

Decent turnout for the size of my town, Mackenzie's point considering

A substantial counter-protest, & a good size mob of police separating them. Literally standing between them, encouraging the 2 sides to NOT mingle or cross over.

This is bizarre to see tension like this, my town is notorious for being super boring and uneventful lol

I'll upload some pictures later.

I crossed over and chatted with some rainbow folk, because I recognized a local leftist from Twitter that I kind of dig. I ousted myself with my real name and we got to talking. Another rainbow flag there was a straight man but had a trans kid. I listened for a while.

I think they have a severe misconception that the protesters 'hate' them, or are trying to take away their rights, or anything like that. They only see from within the trans bubble, they don't consider how it might negatively impact all the straight kids.

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This is fucked.

If the goal is to 'divide & rule', it's working.

Literally every town in Canada just had an 'us vs them' divide, cops in the middle, yelling at each other.
A stones throw away from full on violence imo

Sad and bizarre

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Calgary:

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Ottawa:

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Halifax:

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I took this picture

hope she's OK with it, she was posing for photos with her sign w/lots of folks

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Wow, counter protests have somehow kettled in the protesters in Ottawa.

How will this end? wtf

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Yuck.

There was none of this tension at the Truckers Convoy
until Trudeau's aremd good squad showed up