Group blocks Yonge Street to stop Olympic torch
Posted December 17, 2009 7:40 pm.
Last Updated May 3, 2021 12:06 pm.
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Several hundred protesters have blocked Yonge Street south of Wellesley Street in an effort to oppose the Olympic games.
The group organizing the demonstration has called their actions the “Toronto Rally to Oppose the Torch.”
According to the group’s website, their message is “No Olympics on stolen Native land!” and they say, “The Olympics Torch is about colonial theft of indigenous land; corporate profit grabbing; ecological destruction, militarization and migrant exploitation.”
Police are on scene to control the crowd.
The group has blocked the Olympic torch route twice since its journey to Vancouver came to Canada.
To avoid the protest, organizers were forced to put the torch into a van and drive the flame along the route to its next stop, the Hospital for Sick Children.
