Timeline of Canadian civil disorder, riots and mutinies, protests and rallies
- Tom Monto
- Aug 1
- 17 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
1700s
1753 - Lunenburg Rebellion -- new arrivals upset at conditions
1784 Shelburne (Nova Scotia) riots --- white Loyalists attacked black Loyalists and freed slaves
1798 Newfoundland Regiment of Foot mutiny - leaders hanged (see Wiki "Royal Newfoundland Regiment")
1800s
1835-1845 Shiners' War
1837 Rebellions Mackenzie and Papineau
participants hanged or transported to Australia
1837-1838 Patriot incursions -- inspired by republican sentiment.
Participants transported to Australia.
1838 - In the wake of the 1837 Rebellion, the Children of Peace (a Quaker community in Ontario) resisted Orange Order violence and spoke out for democratic reform. Many members took part in a reform-oriented event, "Durham Meeting". Members of the Orange Order attacked the meeting with clubs. In the melee a 19-year-old member of the Children of Peace, David Leppard, was killed when a thrown rock struck his temple.
1839-1866 Orange Order in Canada --- Between 1839 and 1866, the Orange Order was involved in 29 riots in Toronto, of which 16 had direct political inspiration. The violent disturbances were targeted at candidates who wanted political equality for French-Canadians such as Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, the Children of Peace of Sharon, of which members of the Orange Order killed an adherent, and English reformers who were opposed to the Family Compact. (Garner, Franchise and Politics in BNA, p. 99-100)
1840s Saint John Irish workers riot and fight with others and among themselves
(see Seel, "New Brunswick Class Conflict...")
1841 -- Election of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada -- Orange Order election violence.
Many electoral riots took place during the election of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada and at the time of Baldwin's ministerial by-election after appointment to the executive council. (Garner, Franchise and Politics in BNA, p. 100-101)
1840s Welland Canal workers fighting.
1849 Welland Canal riot (see Wiki "Welland Canal riot")
1849 The outcome of the Guillaume Sayer trial marked the end of the HBC monopoly. Guillaume Sayer, a Métis trapper and trader, was arrested at Red River (Winnipeg) and accused of illegal trading in furs. The Court of Assiniboia brought Sayer to trial, before a jury of HBC officials and supporters. During the trial, a crowd of armed Métis men led by Louis Riel Sr. gathered outside the courtroom. Jury found Sayer guilty of illegal trade, by evading the HBC monopoly, but Judge Adam Thom did not levy a fine or punishment. This effectively ended the HBC's monopoly.
1849 - Montreal Riots/Rebellion Losses Bill -- The enactment of the bill angered some of Montreal's Tory citizens and provoked weeks of violent disturbances known as the Montreal Riots.
1849 - Stony Monday Riot in Bytown (Ontario) when the Governor General inspected Bytown as potential site for new parliament buildings. Despite the anti-democratic opposition, the GG decided to use Bytown (soon renamed Ottawa).
1849 November a group of Indigenous people traveled from Sault Ste. Marie to Mica Bay on the shore of Lake Superior. At Mica Bay the group attacked copper mining sites established by the Quebec Mining Company, with the goal of forcing the Company off the land. More than 100 soldiers were sent to put down the incident, and in December a number of the leaders were arrested and brought to Toronto where they were detained.
1853 - Gavazzi Riots -- anti-Gavazzi disturbances that occurred in Quebec City and Montreal when mobs attacked halls where ex-Catholic monk Alessandro Gavazzi was lecturing.
1855 - Toronto Circus Riot --- S. B. Howes' Star Troupe Menagerie & Circus clowns and members of the Hook and Ladder Firefighting Company came to blows at a brothel one night, and the next day a brawl resumed at the Circus.
Militia was called and defused the riot.
After public outrage at the police's failure to prosecute, an inquiry and an election led to mass firings and selective re-hirings in 1859. (Wiki: "Toronto police service")
1861 - 13 May - St. John's Election riot. 2,000 protesters gathered outside the Colonial Building in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
(Wiki "Politics of Newfoundland and Labrador" says
("The Dominion of Newfoundland was a highly polarized society, marked by distinct cleavages between Roman Catholics and Protestants, Liberals and Conservatives, descendants of Irish and West Country English, rich merchants and poor fishermen and tradesmen, and rural Newfoundland versus St. John's (or alternatively the Avalon Peninsula against the rest of the Dominion's districts).
This often manifested itself in hotly contested and even violent elections.
Various reforms in the 1860s and 1870s (during which Newfoundland rejected confederation with Canada) quelled the often hostile nature of this polarization."
Apparently Proportional Representation was not among the reforms!)
1863 - Oil Springs riot Sarnia/Lambton County (Ontario) in Toronto area
1866-ish - Fenian raids
1867 - Confederation
1869-70 - the first Riel Rebellion, at Red River (Winnipeg)
1871 - social violence in Red River area following suppression of the first Riel rebellion.
Soldiers of the 1st (Ontario) Battalion of Rifles, a regiment stationed at Upper Fort Garry, were assaulting any Metis found around the fort, whether they had participated in the rebellion or not.
John Bruce and Laurent Garneau, later a pioneer of Edmonton, left Red River in part due to this situation.
see Montopedia https://montopedia.wixsite.com/montopedia/post/1871-winnipeg-out-of-control-racist-soldiers-could-have-split-country
1875 - Jubilee riots in Toronto -- an outbreak of Protestant-Catholic sectarian violence. The riots happened during a series of Catholic religious pilgrimages related to the Jubilee year declared by Pope Pius IX.
The first riot occurred on September 26, during a pilgrims' march to the bishop's palace at St. Michael's Cathedral.
1875 - Louis Mailloux Affair --- a series of violent events (similar to a jacquerie) occurred in the town of Caraquet, New Brunswick (Canada), in January 1875.
In 1871 Law 87 was enacted to reform the public education system in the province and enhanced its funding. This legislation sparked the New Brunswick Schools Question, leading to political turmoil in the province and throughout Canada for four years.
1883 - The Harbour Grace Affray -- religious violence that happened on Saint Stephen's Day, 1883 in the town of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, between members of the Loyal Orange Association and Roman Catholics. Four dead.
1885 - North-West Rebellion -- the second Riel rebellion (and his last)
Riel was hanged in 1885.
1886 - NWMP constables mutiny at Edmonton (see Wiki "Timeline of Labour issues...Canada")
1892 - Rat Creek rebellion at Edmonton - Edmonton mayor Matt McCauley activated the Edmonton Home Guard (formerly used during the 1885 Metis rebellion) and forced local federal officials to step down and not move the land titles office out of Edmonton. His force held off an investigating NWMP force where the road crossed Rat Creek.
see Montopedia "Rat Creek Rebellion spawned Edmonton police service"
(Later McCauley shepherded the famous anarchist Count Kropotkin around the Edmonton area. Perhaps they discussed the Rat Creek Rebellion!!)
1900s
Sept. 7-8 Vancouver Labour Day march by unionists led to anti-Asian-immigration riot. Chinatown and Japantown attacked, causing property damage and numerous injuries.
1907 - Asiatic Exclusion League formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 12 August 1907 under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council. Its stated aim was "to keep Oriental immigrants out of British Columbia.
On 7 September, riots erupted in Vancouver when League members besieged Chinatown after listening to inflammatory racist speeches at City Hall (then on Main Street near Georgia Street). 4,000 people shouting racist slogans, by the time the riot reached City Hall, it had reached 8,000 people. The crowd marched into Chinatown, vandalizing and causing thousands of dollars' worth of damage The mob then rampaged through Japantown, where they were confronted by residents armed with clubs and bottles with which they fought back.
1911 - Conservative Party elected on promise of not bringing in reciprocity trade deal with the U.S. (Reciprocity was the free trade agreement of its time). Conservative Party stayed in power until 1921, being re-elected under shady circumstances in 1917.
1914 - Saint John street railway strike. violence on the picket lines
WWI
1916 - The Battle of the Hatpins (French: Bataille des épingles à chapeaux) was a violent resistance against police trying to enforce Ontario's much-hated anti-French law. The resistance occurred in Ottawa, when police tried to enforce provincial Regulation 17, which restricted French-language education in the province of Ontario. More than 70 women used hatpins, frying pans and other common household objects to fight off 30 police officers intent on arresting two sisters, Béatrice and Diane Desloges, for teaching in French in an Ottawa school.
1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917 - riots in Quebec
(1918-1921 Canadian Labour Revolt)
(general strikes, founding of One Big Union, labour successes in provincial and federal elections, etc.)
1918 - Vancouver one-day general strike in honour of Ginger Goodwin, who had been killed by a policeman.
1918 - Situation approached the commencement of a general strike in Edmonton due to firefighters' grievance. Referendum held March 5, 1918.
Voters upheld firefighters' complaints. City council backed down.
(see Peel's PP no. 4386 H.M.E. Evans "Mayor's statement...")
(see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Edmonton")
1919 One Big Union founded in Calgary
1919 - Winnipeg general strike (see Wiki: "Winnipeg general strike")
1919 - Edmonton general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Edmonton general strike")
1919- Calgary general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Calgary general strike")
1919 - Toronto general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Toronto general strike")
1919 - Brandon (Manitoba) general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Brandon general strike")
1919 - Amherst (Nova Scotia) general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Amherst general strike")
1919 - Vancouver general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Vancouver general strike") (see also Bernard, Elaine (1985). "Vancouver General Strikes, 1918 and 1919". Working lives : Vancouver, 1886–1986. Vancouver: New Star Books)
1919 - Victoria general strike (see Wiki "Canadian Labour revolt#Victoria general strike")
1921 Communist Party of Canada (CPC) founded
1921 UFA elected to provincial government in Alberta
1922 - Edmonton coal miners on strike. Police violence against picket lines. Coal miners' women hurt in melees.
1923 - Bloody Sunday (1923), a day of police violence during a steelworkers' strike for union recognition in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. (see Wiki "Bloody Sunday (1923)")
Depression 1929-1937-ish
1931 – Riot of unemployed in Calgary after Calgary police arrest a labour speaker.
1931 – Estevan riot. Four striking coal miner shot to death by RCMP officers police killing
1932 April 5 - Colonial Building riot, St. John's, Newfoundland. Prompted by the Great Depression and corruption in the Squires government, a peaceful protest turned into riots and violence. The riots led to the fall of the Squires government and the defeat of Squires's Liberal government.
1932 - Edmonton Hunger March -- Premier Brownlee and Mayor Knott blamed for calling out the police. Knott re-elected in 1933.
1932 - CCF founded in Calgary
1933 - Christie Pits riot -- Toronto.
Jewish and anti-Nazi activists fought with Canadian Nazis of the Swastika Club, at the baseball field at Christie Pits playground. Thereafter, displays of the swastika flag were banned in Toronto.
1935 - On-to-Ottawa Trek/Regina Riot
Two deaths:
Nick Shaak beaten to death by club-wielding RCMP
Plainclothes cop Charles Miller killed.
1935 – Battle of Ballantyne Pier connected to Vancouver dockers' strike.
1000 protesters, members of the Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers' Association, under influence of the Workers' Unity League; marched towards Ballantyne Pier to prevent scabs from unloading ships in the harbour. Upon arriving at the pier they were ambushed by the Vancouver police, BC Provincial Police, and RCMP who were hiding behind boxcars.
The Battle of Ballantyne Pier contributed to the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
1938 - Bloody Sunday -- police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver.
The conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver. 100 injured, 43 hospitalized.
WWII
1942 - The Battle of Bowmanville --
a revolt in the Bowmanville (Ontario) prisoner-of-war camp (Camp 30). Prisoners, most of whom were higher-ranking German officers, objected to the planned shackling of 100 prisoners (to be carried out as retribution for the German army's treatment of captured Canadian soldiers following the raid on Dieppe). The battle lasted three days. (see Wikipedia)
1944 - Terrace (BC) mutiny Canadian army Terrace BC
In 1944, Major-General George Pearkes was instrumental in suppressing the Terrace Mutiny, a revolt by conscripts stationed in Terrace, British Columbia, resulting from the announcement that conscripts would be deployed overseas.
Although successful in suppressing the mutiny, Pearkes was critical of the actions that led to the mutiny in the first place, stating he had been placed in the "intolerable position of being ordered to enforce a policy which his past experience gained in applying similar policies has proven ruinous to discipline of [troops], and of being in an utterly dishonourable position.
Pearkes announced that he would not issue instructions to his junior commanders that would "place them in an impossible situation." (From Wiki: George Pearkes)"
1945 - Halifax riot Canadian army Canadian navy
Post-War
1946 strike at Montreal Cottons at Valleyfield, QU ended only after violent riot.
On August 13 at 11 a.m., around five thousand people, the majority of them women and children, were gathered at the mill to support the strike. Police threw tear gas bombs to disperse the crowd and to allow strike breakers to leave the mill for their lunchtime break. Strikers and crowd threw rocks and the tear gas bombs back at the police. Police retreated to seek shelter within inside the mill. After seven hours the riot ended - truce was negotiated by a committee representing the strikers and the police.
In the truce, the strikers agreed that strike breakers would not be mistreated upon leaving the factory and that the violence would end, provided that the provincial police and the company's private cops leave the city and that the company close until the end of the strike. With the mill put out of business, mill management were more conciliatory and workers returned to work on Sept. 9, with a union contract signed in November, the workers' first. The labour activism and the role of women in the strike challenged the historical narrative of a hegemonic conservative Quebec under the leadership of Premier Maurice Duplessis, and helped lead the way to Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
Two days after the riot, strike leader Rowley and local union leader Trefflé Leduc were arrested and charged with inciting the riot. (Upon Rowley's arrest, Madeleine Parent took charge of the strike.)
(Rowley and Parent later founded the Confederation of Canadian Unions in 1969.)
1949 - Canadian Navy mutinies (see Wiki "History of the Royal Canadian Navy#1949 'mutinies')
1949 - Asbestos Strike in Asbestos, Quebec. 5000 miners on strike for three months against a foreign-owned corporation at Asbestos and Thetford Mines. The bishop of Montreal, the newspaper Le Devoir, and several prominent intellectuals support the strikers. It is said to be one of the longest and most violent labour conflicts in Quebec history, and to have laid the base for Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
1955 - The Richard Riot was a riot on March 17, 1955 (Saint Patrick's Day), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The riot was named after Maurice Richard (Rocket Richard), the star ice hockey player for the NHL Montreal Canadiens. After a violent altercation on March 13 in which Richard hit a linesman, NHL president Clarence Campbell (formerly of Edmonton) suspended Richard for the remainder of the 1954–55 NHL season, including the playoffs. Montreal fans packed the stands at the next game and demonstrated in protest outside. The crowd of demonstrators grew to 6,000. Some carried signs that denounced Campbell, and others had signs reading, among other things, "Vive Richard" (Long live Richard), "No Richard, no Cup", and "Our national sport destroyed". Some members of the crowd smashed windows and threw ice chunks at passing streetcars. Others inside pelted Campbell with garbage, and one even slapped and hit him. Police eventually shut down the game due to the deteriorating situation.
the sight of Quebecois rioting over a perceived slight to a Quebec cultural icon (Rocket Richard) might have helped cause Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. (other possible incendiary events include 1957 Murdochville strike, 1949 Asbestos strike and 1946 Montreal Cottons strike.)
(keyword: hockey)
1958 – Newfoundland Loggers' Strike is conducted by the International Woodworkers of America.
1960-1999
1961 – September 10, a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers meeting at Sudbury Arena, regarding the union's controversial proposal to merge with the United Steelworkers, erupts into a riot
1969 – Murray-Hill riot, Montreal police force on strike. FLQ, taxi drivers, and others take radical action. (Quebec)
1969 - "Sir George Williams affair" -- Sir George Williams University, Montreal
1971 August 7 - "Gastown riot" occurred in Vancouver. Following weeks of arrests by Vancouver's undercover drug squad members, as part of a special police operation directed by City hall, police broke up a protest smoke-in in the Gastown neighbourhood, using riot batons and armed police on horseback.
Judge investigating called it a police riot.
(also known as as Gastown riots and as "the Battle of Maple Tree Square")
(pot legalization)
1971 August 28 - The We Demand Rally in Ottawa was the first large-scale gay rights demonstration in Canada. The rally was organized by the gay rights activist groups Toronto Gay Action (TGA) and Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
A parallel rally happened in Vancouver. It was organized in solidarity with the rally by the Vancouver group Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE).
(from Wiki "We Demand Rally")
As a direct result of the rally, the Immigration Act was amended, removing the ban on gay men from travelling and immigrating to Canada.[14] All of the original ten demands of the rally have since been met and the laws they addressed have since been amended.
The rally led to the creation of The Body Politic by Jearld Moldenhauer, demonstrator and photographer of the rally. Moldenhauer, with a few other activists, was driven to create the magazine as a result of significant edits and alterations to an article Moldenhauer wrote about the rally and its demands for the working-class counterculture magazine Guerilla.[15] The first issue of The Body Politic was published November/December 1971 and contained articles about the Ottawa rally and its demands[16] as well as the Vancouver rally,[7] and used a picture of the rally as its cover.
1972 - Quebec general strike (see Wiki "Quebec general strike")
1974 - violent attack of African independence event at University of Toronto. An opposing group shattered glass doors and overturned tables used at the meeting in support of native rule in Portugal's African territories. 56 were injured.
see
1976 – Canadian general strike: Day of Action (October 14)
One-day general strike against Trudeau's anti-inflationary wages and price controls. More than one million workers stay home
1986-2008 (various dates) -- Edmonton Institution riots and disturbances
1987 - Celebration of Stanley Cup win on Jasper Avenue turned into riot. Dozens arrested. ("June 1, 1987 Stanley Cup celebrations turn into riot", https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/throwback-thursday-edmonton-oilers-stanley-cup-celebrations-violent-1.4140362 ) (hockey)
Temagami Blockades of 1988-89
Blockages & Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89|last=Hodgins|first=Bruce W.|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|year=2003
1990 July 11 - September 26 - Oka crisis , Quebec
(French: Crise d'Oka),[6][7][8] also known as the Mohawk Crisis[9] or Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (French: Résistance de Kanehsatà:ke)
Mohawks had for years made their claim to nearby land that included an Indigenous burial ground.
plan announced in 1990 that the land would be used for expansion of the Oka golf club.
March 11 Members of the militant Mohawk Warrior's Society set up roadblocks.
July 11 police make moves to dismantle the roadblock
Kahnawá:ke Warrior Society was called in for reinforcements, and blocked the Mercier Bridge near Chateauguay, southwest of Montréal, Québec;
police launched a failed assault on the barricades. shots fired from both sides. A QPP officer, 31-year-old SQ Corporal Marcel Lemay, was shot and killed.
The army was called in to handle the situation.
Stand-off between land defenders and elements of the Canadian Armed Forces continued all summer with attention focused on the Kahnesatake reserve at Oka and the Kahnawake reserve near Chateauguay;
the crisis gave rise to Native protests and sympathy blockades across Canada.
At a peak, 600 armed Natives were facing off against a large presence of armed soldiers.
The 78-day stand-off came to an end when the bitter-enders, a group of Mohawk militants holed up in a treatment centre in Kahnesatake, surrendered to the army on Sept. 26
As the military arrested the land defenders and some tried to flee, a Canadian soldier used his bayonet to stab 14-year-old Waneek Horn-Miller, who was carrying her 4-year-old half-sister Kaniehtiio Horn, and she nearly died.
Ronaldo Casalpro (who used the alias Ronald "Lasagna" Cross during the conflict) was sentenced to six years in prison and was beat up when in detention.
Francine Lemay, sister of the slain QPP officer, reconciled with the Mohawk community at Kanehsatà:ke after reading At the Woods' Edge, a history of Kanehsatà:ke and married a Mohawk historian.
Canadian government bought the land but has not ceded it to Mohawks.
Local MP Ricardo López Bello (Conservative) called for the Mohawks to be transported to Labrador. He lost his seat in the next election.
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1992 May 4 - Yonge Street riot - angry protest held against police killings of Rodney King in the U.S and a black man, Raymond Lawrence, in Toronto.
Some engaged in looting and wilful damage. (see Wiki "Yonge Street riot") (race riot)
1993 - Montreal Stanley Cup Riot (hockey)
The 1993 Montreal Stanley Cup riot occurred in Montreal after the Montreal Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup.
1994 - Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (hockey)
1997 S.O.S. Montfort was a Franco-Ontarian movement that fought to save Montfort Hospital, the only primarily francophone hospital in Ontario, after the Mike Harris government announced it would be shutting down the hospital in 1997. One of the largest mass movements in Franco-Ontarian history, the level of mobilisation it saw and the ultimate success of the campaign has been noted as a significant moment in the struggle for French-language rights in Ontario and in the wider Canada.
By mid-August 1997, the Commission announced that it would be partially reversing its decision, allowing the hospital to stay open with its own administration, but with a greatly reduced level of services.
In 1998, the SOS Montfort Fund campaign was launched, ultimately raising enough funds for SOS Montfort to take the Harris government to court to save the hospital. A main argument of the campaign was that the decision to shutter the francophone hospital in Ontario was a potential violation of Franco-Ontarians' rights under Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[26]
judgement in favour was appealed.
late 2001, the Court of Appeal announced its decision, unanimously confirming the ruling of the division court and once again ruling in favour of Montfort, stating that "the principle of respect for and protection of minorities is a fundamental structural feature of the Canadian Constitution" and that the Health Services Restructuring Commission failed to respect the French Language Services Act
February 2002, the Harris government announced that it would not appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. This marked the end of the government's attempts to close the hospital and the ultimate success of the movement. Montfort Hospital was saved and would remain open.
(2009, the Monfort defenders lent its support to the Committee for Equality of Health in French, fighting against healthcare reforms in New Brunswick)
(see Wiki S.O.S. Montfort)
2000s
2001 - 3rd Summit of the Americas Quebec City.
A number of protesters were seriously injured by rubber or plastic bullets, evidence shows they were aimed at heads and groins.
2001 - Edmonton Canada Day riot on Whyte Avenue, Edmonton
2006 - Edmonton Stanley Cup Playoff run (hockey)
- riots on Edmonton's Whyte Avenue.
mischief, vandalism, open fires on the street; nudity.
May 17 --20,00 crowd into Whyte Avenue.
May 27 - 50,000 gathered on Whyte Avenue. Nine bonfires burned pallets and branches ripped from avenue trees. Hundreds of shop windows broken. Crowd finally dispersed at about 3 a.m.
June 17 police conduct mass arrests.
The most people arrested at one event in the country's history up to that time -- 200-400 (surpassed the previous record set by Toronto's Operation Soap (raids on gay bathhouses in 1981); was in turn surpassed by the G20 protests in 2010)
In other words, May 12-June 17 Edmonton Oiler Stanley Cup playoff run inspired riots and expensive damage to businesses along Whyte Avenue. Finally put down by mass arrests of hundreds of revellers.
(CBC News, "Oilers, police aiming to avoid repeat..." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oilers-hockey-edmonton-rogers-riot-playoffs-business-1.4046048)
("City officials meet to discuss Whyte Ave. violence", CBC, May 29, 2006 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/city-officials-meet-to-discuss-whyte-ave-violence-1.613847 accessed August 21, 2025)
(see Youtube recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpnRd1-7iUg)
2010s
More than 1100 people arrested. Human rights abused.
Later, the government paid out $16.5M in compensation for wrongful police conduct.
Parkes, Political Protest, Mass Arrests...
2011 - Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (hockey)
Vancouver lost in game seven to Boston Bruins, riot ensued.
Robson St. and West Georgia St. -- Businesses damaged (smashed windows, looting, and vandalism). Cars set on fire.
Four people sustained serious injuries.
140 people taken to hospital with minor injuries. (Public Safety Canada website)
2012 December --- Idle No More founded by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally -- Nina Wilson, Sheelah Mclean, Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum, and Jessica Gordon. They initiated the group in November 2012, during a teach-in at Station 20 West in Saskatoon called "Idle No More", held in response to the Harper government's introduction of Bill C-45. Idle No More is a grassroots movement among the Indigenous peoples in Canada comprising the First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and their non-Indigenous supporters in Canada, and to a lesser extent, internationally. many political actions worldwide, inspired in part by the liquid diet hunger strike of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence[1]
2019 Ontario Autism Program controversy
(see Wiki)
2022 August 28 We Still Demand, commemorative march organized by Queer Ontario,held on Parliament Hill celebrated reforms that had been won since the 1971 We Demand rally and protested continued inequality and issues, such as having cops at Pride events and LGBT homelessness.
2014 Feb. 9 - HMP chapel riot The HMP chapel riot was a prison disturbance that took place in the chapel of Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It centred on a violent attack on inmate Kenneth Green.
2020s
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General reference:
Wiki "Timeline of labour issues and events in Canada" - includes Mountie mutinies, police killings, vigilante violence
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