This is how most people and organizations predicted Friday would turn out: Eve of destruction. The expectation was that protests would build in Toronto throughout the work week and peak on Friday. To that end, most people planned on staying home today. Perhaps it’s quiet right now because everyone is watching the Portugal-Brazil match. (Even [...]
Archive for June, 2010
G20 Friday – Eve of destruction
Posted in Humour, My Opinions, Office and culture, Politics, tagged ATV, G20, Toronto on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Self immolation risk and mitigation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged G20, immolate, water cannon, Wipeout on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Siri Agrell of the Globe and Mail reports about a man who will self-immolate at the G20 - when the PM of India is here - to protest the 1984 Sikh genocide. The Integrated Security Unit noted that their officers are trained to react to these sorts of things. But I bet this is the actual reason the [...]
Army of Darkness 2 – Revenge on the G20
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Army of Darkness, Ash, G20 on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Toronto Star reports:”Toronto police arrested a 53-year-old man on the Esplanade in downtown Toronto Thursday afternoon and confiscated a chainsaw, sledgehammer, four baseball bats, a crossbow and fuel canisters from his car.” What! Doesn’t this sound like the stuff you’d find in Ash’s car in Army of Darkness or Evil Dead 2?
Keep your G20 comments to yourself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged G20, Police, Porter, Toronto on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Riskczar has learned that a passenger aboard a Porter Airlines flight from Toronto Island Airport to New York was removed from the plane for making “comments about the G20 in the waiting area”. This according to the pilot. My source, who was also on the plane, and requested anonymity, indicated that the plane pulled out and [...]
Reputation risk – Novotel workers strike
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged G20, Novotel, reputation risk on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When the French planned their G20 visit to Toronto, they must have figured it would be a nice nationalist gesture to book the Novotel hotel, owned by the French company Accor. In a move that reeks of poetic justice to a country that loves their labour unions, 80 workers walked off the job at midnight. [...]
G20 update – Day 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, earthquake, G20, Starbucks, twister on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 4. This is the day we have been waiting for. The first three days of this week were like a dress rehersal. We took precautions, had folks working from home just in case, but the real test was going to be Thursday. Today. This is when we expect all the crazies to show up and [...]
G20 Jokes
Posted in Humour, tagged BCP on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
G20 update – Day 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, enterprise risk, G20 on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 3. Yawn. All is still quiet. Perhaps this is the equivalent of the opening act: people only show up for the headliner and the opening acts often play to a partially filled venue. Headliner goes on the main stage on Friday. I took a walk in the PATH yesterday afternoon - this is the underground [...]
G20 update – Day 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, enterprise risk, G20, operational risk, zombie on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 2 starts with rain in Toronto. There was a minor protest yesterday afternoon for people protesting that they had nothing important to protest. Or maybe they were protesting poverty. One guy was busted by a cop on a bike for having some pot. I counted at least 100 cops on my walk down to [...]
G20 update – Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, G20, reputation risk on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s Monday, Day 1 leading up to the G20 which starts in Toronto on the weekend. Downtown Toronto is wrapped in fences. On my 3 block walk from Union Station to King Street, I saw no fewer than 20 local police and RCMP patrolling and congregating on corners. I’ve heard at least three accounts of [...]
