“Kelly is responsible for the free food program that we run every Saturday in Stratford and the harm reduction program too.”

“She is really selfless and goes out of her way to help people.”

“It’s just so amazing how someone can turn all their anger and frustration with society into something really beautiful which is what Kelly keeps doing over and over.”

“Through her actions and her work I was inspired to get involved and help out.”

"Mummy, what happened?"

Those were the first words uttered by a little girl when she saw her mother wearing a huge bandage around her left wrist and hand.

"How do you tell a five-year-old that mummy was beaten by police?" said Jean McDonald at a press conference Tuesday announcing the launch of a "People's" investigation into the actions of the police during the G20 Summit weekend.

"It's hard to do that in a way that's not going to terrify your child, but is also honest and real and describes what happened."

Joel Duff, Ontario organizer at the Canadian Federation of Students, picked up the large white bullhorn in his right hand.

Raising the electronic megaphone upwards, he tilted his head back and squeezed the pistol grip trigger switch as he prepared to address an audience of close to 5,000 assembled on the front lawn at Queen’s Park.

“We are here because more than 900 people were arrested on the streets of Toronto,” he said, referring to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history two weeks ago during the G20 summit.

On Saturday, a rally and march was held in Toronto to pressure the federal and provincial governments to call an independent G20 Public Inquiry into the actions of the police during the G20 Summit.

Click here to see more photos from the rally and march.

It was a day unlike any other, where same-sex couples walked hand in hand without fear of ridicule and police marched with other gay rights activists, as thousands lined the streets of Toronto to watch the 30th annual Pride Toronto festivities.

By 11 a.m., a middle aged woman had already staked out a spot behind the metal barriers at Yonge and Wellesley for herself and three friends even though the Parade was still three hours away. Leaning back in a folding chair, she rested her feet on the barrier and fixed her hair as the burning sunshine pressed down on her suntanned face. 

The annual Toronto Pride Parade was held Sunday afternoon.

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The G20 Bike Block Action began at Spadina and Bloor on Sunday afternoon.

Click here to see photos of cyclists on Yonge Street just south of College.

People walked the streets of downtown Toronto Sunday, surveying the damage done to store windows on Yonge Street between College and Queen by a small group of G8/G20 protesters the day before.

However, when a woman was murdered in Peel and a man was killed at an Oshawa apartment bash on Saturday, when a Toronto man was found guilty of 11 counts of attempted murder on Friday, when two men were shot by a masked gunman on Thursday at a Danforth pool hall or when an arsonist set fire to a Scarborough high school on Wednesday, none of those stories collectively dominated the mainstream news or garnered attention from the public or politicians the way a few broken windows did.

Standing in the courtyard outside Pitman Hall at Ryerson University, Jessica Yee clutched the megaphone and eyed the crowd of over 200 demonstrators.

As she began to speak, the television cameras, reporters and photographers inched closer.

“We’re here today because if we don’t have rights over our own bodies, what do we have?” asked Yee, a self-described Indigenous feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter.

Her commanding voice thundered through the crowd, some of whom were holding signs that read “Maternal Health Includes Abortion”, “Sex Work Is Real Work” and “Hey G8, Support For Women Everywhere.”

It was more like a queer party than a mid-morning press conference at the 519 Community Centre.

Inside the auditorium, over 100 people gathered as former Pride grand marshals, honoured dykes and award recipients returned their accolades after Pride Toronto banned the term “Israeli apartheid” from its 2010 events.

The audience burst into thunderous applause and rose from their chairs for a standing ovation that lasted almost a minute when Elle Flanders introduced “The 21 Refuseniks” on Tuesday.