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…
Self immolation risk and mitigation
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…
Army of Darkness 2 – Revenge on the G20
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…
Keep your G20 comments to yourself
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…
Reputation risk – Novotel workers strike
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…
G20 update – Day 4
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…
G20 update – Day 3
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…
G20 update – Day 2
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…
G20 update – Day 1
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…
Riskczar’s thoughts on next week’s G20
In case you haven’t heard, the G20 Summit is coming to Toronto next week. In my current role, I’ve been involved in some of the business continuity planning but mostly from a communication perspective. All of the heavy lifting had…