Special TVO tonight: Police, Politics and Protest

A special issue of The Agenda with Steve Paikin is on tonight concerning the G20 protests and the uneven police response to them.

The panel, last I heard, is to be composed of

Kate Holloway is a parent of someone detained during Toronto's G20 protests. She is a former Liberal candidate for provincial parliament.

Ken Chan a former police officer, Ken Chan served as an advisor on community safety and police oversight in the office of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, England.

Jesse Rosenfeld was covering the G20 demonstrations for the Guardian newspaper's Comment Is Free section and is an editorial collective member of the alternative media center in Toronto.

Tyler Hodgson is lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais and a former crown attorney



Mercedes Stephenson is host of the national, weekly, current affairs series MSI (Mercedes Stephenson Investigates). She's also vice president of the Breakout Educational Network, a registered, non-profit, charitable foundation.


Ben Powless is Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario. He is currently studying Human Rights, Indigenous and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is also heavily involved with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
The topic: What can the police do and not do? Were their actions this weekend within the law?

It is on tonight at 8 and 11.

The picture I took above is of a released detainee's ID sticker.

1 comment:

Skinny Dipper said...

In case you miss the 11 pm show, it should appear again at 5 am.

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