Pyat wanders - another day in photos

[pyat]

Lovely weather today, so commanderteddog and I went wandering. She works a couple of blocks from my office, so such peregrinations are often convenient. When we met, there was some kind of event brewing along Yonge Street. This turned out to be a Tamil Tiger protest against the Sri Lankan government.


I know practically nothing about this conflict, other than it's the sort of long-term and deeply entrenched argument that sends most people fleeing for the comparatively simple moral conumdrums of the occupation of Palestine. The Wiki entry seems to paint the Tigers in a pretty dire light. The protest was well-organized, though. The line of people extended more than a kilometer along the street, yet blocked no traffic or storefronts. I wish I'd brought the good camera, instead of just my cell phone, as I could've gotten some impressive photos.


We ducked into the Dundas Square, where I bought a keydrive and some food, then jogged over to the Ryerson Campus where we ate at the same picnic table on which I used to eat take-out fries and study Microeconomics in 1994.




On the way back, we wondered about the upside down ziggurat building near Ryerson.


And noted that the Toronto Police Mounted Units were hiding out in a side street off Yonge, no doubt waiting for the demonstration to turn ugly.

Comments

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Hey Pyat, this is a bit offtopic, but still relevant since it involves downtown Toronto...

I've become a fan of the show "Flashpoint" on CBS. It has a LOT of principal photography in the Toronto area, especially in downtown. I'm just wondering if you've ever seen them filming.

One episode involved them trying to catch a sniper along the rooftops, and they had one of the public squares FILLED with SWAT-style vans and personnel milling about. I bet they do a lot of this on weekends though, so you'd probably miss it. :)

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

I saw what I'm pretty sure was them filming down off Bay street a few months back. I didn't see any of the actors, but there were lots of semi-real looking SWAT guys and half the streets in the area closed off.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it might have been that episode with the sniper.

Here's the opening shot of the area; most of the episode was filmed right around these two unusual looking buildings.

http://zorin.org/db/flashpoint-open.png

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

That's City Hall, right where Bay meets Queen. So yea, it was exactly that area. (I used to live two blocks up from there, they film stuff in the area all the time.)