For the past week, I and my partner and our son were on the anti-torture caravan from Toronto to Ottawa, protesting numerous despicable practices by the Canadian government, including the "torture by proxy" of Canadian CITIZENS in Syria.
In Ottawa, we stopped at the PMO and presented a petition from thousands of people on our route that the men who were Canadian citizens, yet somehow not the concern of the Canadian Embassy in Syria, be given a public inquiry into how they found themselves tortured in Syria and asked questions provided by the Canadian government.
Each of the men gave a speech, as did I, and three other members of our caravan. Global News was there, along with the CBC, Reuters, Associated Press, and others. The guy from Global said we'd be on the 5:30 news, but since we'd be driving home at that time, we all thought it likely that we'd see it on the 11 o'clock news.
No such luck.
We watched the CBC National. Nothing. But, one story that got repeated play was the story of a Tim Horton's worker who was fired for giving a customer's baby a Timbit.
Arggh. Busy night. More tomorrow.
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Hey thwap...great to hear that you've been doing this, even if the media coverage has been awful!
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