Award-winning play is based on one citizen’s experience after being swept up by the Toronto police response to G20 protests—which constituted the largest peacetime mass arrest in Canadian history
You Should Have Stayed Home (aka #G20Romp) is a play about Tommy Taylor’s experience over 48 hours at the 2010 G20 weekend in Toronto. While trying to return home from his first ever protest as a law-abiding citizen at the “Free Speech Zone” at Queen’s Park, Taylor was swept up in a mass arrest, caged with 40 other people in a ten foot by twenty foot cage and denied drinking water until he passed out from dehydration. (more…)
The province of Ontario is supporting an innovative program that helps youth with mental illness access the information and resources they need to manage their condition.
As you may or may not have heard, the Great Lake Walk Society has cancelled this year’s Great Lake Walk. The walk was 56 km and was to take place on Sept 21st. Columbian Centre Society greatly appreciates your support towards our operations and we are quickly organizing another walk. As you can understand there is much planning involved (toilets, rest stations, food, first aid, supplies) and with the limited notice of the cancellation we are proposing an alternative route. 
A group called Sensible BC is working to decriminalize the simple possession of cannabis in British Columbia through a proposal called the Sensible Policing Act. The Sensible Policing Act would amend the Police Act, to redirect all police in the province from taking any action, including searches, seizures, citations or arrests, in cases of simple cannabis possession by adults. This would apply to all RCMP and municipal police in BC. 
Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton University. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions that may be amplified by — and perpetuate — their financial woes. 