I don't how much G20 news you're all getting in your corner of the world but it's been pretty much 24 hour coverage here for the last couple of days since this meeting is being held in our fair city.

Police have spent weeks securing the downtown area where the world leaders are staying and meeing. Security includes a concrete and metal fence that runs kilometers long and isolates the area where the meetings are taking place. No one gets into that area without showing proper ID and a reason why they should be there. Additional resources have been brought in. Auxiliary police have received special training. Highways have been closed for motorcades as the delegates arrived. In all, the news has been reporting that a billion dollars has been spend on security for the G20.

The police prepared themselves for protesters and the city has designated a large park in the city for safe and peaceful protests. Security has been provided to keep the protesters safe and allow them to exercise their right to freedom of speech.

Yesterday, a peaceful protest began on Toronto streets and was supervised by police. But a group of people chose to infiltrate that peaceful protest using Black Bloc techniques. Black Bloc is when people with bad intentions join a peaceful protest. While in the crowd, they change to black clothing and masks and they perform violent acts, they are then able to quickly change back to regular clothing and blend in with the crowd to avoid police.

These Black Bloc assholes got into the crowd yesterday. They broke windows with hammers. They spray painted on walls and windows. They threw golf balls and other debris at police. And they set police cruisers on fire. In total, five police cars were torched. People were injured by their activities and by the end of the day over 400 arrests occured.

The police and the city responded quickly. They did their best and spent the better part of the day trying to secure the city once again using peaceful means. Basically the entire downtown core was put into lockdown. All public transporation was suspended to downtown to keep people from getting into the city. Business owners were asked to close for the day. Downtown hospitals were locked down to anyone that didn't arrive in an ambulance.

And we watched it all unfold on TV, hoping that it didn't get any worse. It was surreal to watch groups of officers converge on the crowds on horseback, on bicycles, and on foot in full riot gear. It was like watching something that happens somewhere else in the world...not here.

Yesterday was the first time in history that the Toronto police have ever used teargas.

These were not protesters. These were criminals and terrororists. What message did they think they were sending by breaking a window or setting a police cruiser on fire? All they did was create unnecessary chaos and get people hurt. Perhaps that was their mission.

So what's your favourite protest song?