The pay isn’t so good but there’s lots of work in Ontario’s protest industry. Kids at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Brampton are protesting the government’s plan to introduce a so-called healthy menu into school lunch rooms. They’ve got a video on YouTube but we are going to save that until later. Maybe much later. Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he agrees with the young protesters. This may not be an election issue, Tim. Moving on, there is a rather specialized weekly anti-meat protest near Exhibition Place to protest the slaughter of pigs at Quality Meat Packing on Tecumseh Street. Quality is a throw back to earlier times when there was much such work located along King Street West. This demonstration is run by a lady who holds a doctorate in social justice The story is published with considerable feeling in that social justice journal the Toronto Star. The doctor likes to reference Tolstoy and brings to her work that grim view of life on the Steppes of Russia with such quotes as: “Come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers and try to help.” Okay. And finally, Allan Harding MacKay, 67, will rip up five of his acrylic works of art to protest what he considers the destruction of Canadian parliamentary tradition. Go for it, Allan.
