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John Bonnar is an independent journalist producing print, photo, video and audio stories about social justice issues in and around Toronto.

Activists occupy Conservative MP constituency offices to oppose Bill C-31

Vancouver occupation of Immigration and Canadian Border Services Agency offices. Photo: No One is Illegal/Flickr.
Members of refugee and immigrant rights groups occupy Conservative MP constituency offices across Canada.

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Refugee and immigrant rights activists occupy Conservative MP constituency offices
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Returning to St. James Park

Photo Art: John Bonnar
It almost seems as if they were never here in the first place. People shuffle through St. James Park as if Occupy Toronto never existed.

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Returning to St. James Park
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Occupy Toronto ordered to leave or be evicted

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Podcast: Protesters' thoughts on being told to leave.

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#Occupy Toronto Day 38: Judge orders Occupy Toronto out of St. James Park
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Occupy Toronto in its third week

Photo: John Bonnar
Occupy Toronto prepares for winter.

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#Occupy Toronto Day 17
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One night down and more to come for Occupy Toronto

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From the second day of Occupy Toronto.

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Photos: #Occupy Toronto Day 2
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Occupy Toronto: Night one

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The start of the action.

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Occupy Toronto settles in St. James Park
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Toronto awaits the full horror of Ford cuts

A community meeting at Dufferin Grove Park in Toronto to discuss the cuts to social service program by the Rob Ford administration at Toronto City Hall. Photo: John Bonner
Neighbours break bread and discuss the fight ahead.

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Ford cuts will devastate already struggling Toronto communities
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Proud of Mad Pride

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Toronto Mad Pride Week, designed to educate, raise awareness, diminish isolation and diffuse the power of the stigma of mental illness.

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Psychiatric survivors continue to fight against the stigma of mental illness
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Toronto's homeless death toll continues to climb

A homeless man in central Toronto, at the end of the G20 summit, June 25, 2010. Photo: nouspique/flickr
A monthly vigil is held to remember those who have died homeless in Toronto.

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Toronto's homeless death toll continues to climb
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Tenants' advocacy groups face possible $100,000 funding cut

By John Bonnar
| January 14, 2011

Tenants will be left to fend for themselves if the City of Toronto follows through with its proposed funding cuts to tenant programs and services, said a non-profit tenants' rights group in a statement released Thursday.

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