Just heard on the news: Polls show Canadians fed up with Occupy Toronto

[Faithful One]

Cant' find a link yet but it says that most Canadians have an unfavourable opinion of the protests; there's been apparent drug problems at Occupy Toronto and people want them gone.

[ingac70]

1. Thanks for your concern. n/t

[Faithful One]

2. I support the Occupy Protests but

the opinion I hear my friends and fellow Canadians express is that "canada's not in the shape the US is in, there's no need for Occupy here"

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It's global

That's the problem.
As to drugs and the rest...I am sure every protests has a little of that. I also know the mayor is all but friendly. Even Canadian media will manipulate.

But seriously this ddn't even start in the us.

[ingac70]

5. There's a need world wide....

http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/12/10/no-canadian-bank-bailouts-says-who/#axzz1d4KNhOXa

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[canetoad]

19. Hope I'm around

when the Canadian DUers come after you.

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[DonCoquixote]

24. to them I would say

"when you get rid of harper, then you can talk, in the meantime, you may be on the backburner, but you are ON THe MENU just the same.

[CreekDog]

29. you just said there was a poll which you can't find

which is it? :shrug:

[girl gone mad]

3. Cool story, bro.

[marmar]

6. Uh huh......Didn't Canada just get a very bad quarterly jobs report?

The Occupy fervor will pick up pretty soon.

[laundry_queen]

15. Yes, And it was very unexpected.

I think a lot of people here in Canada are in denial. The OP is right, everyone I know personally thinks the protests "aren't necessary here" but supports the protests in the US. I think many of them just don't understand how we've also started our downhill slide and it'll get progressively worse over the next 5 years with Harper's majority gov't. They also don't understand how this is a global issue that needs a global movement. They live in their little bubbles, with their good jobs and universal health care (and great safety net) and think it won't happen to them.

[spanone]

7. sounds like they have a lot of liberal hippies, eh?

where have i heard this drivel before?

[lamp_shade]

8. Welcome to DU, Faithful One.

[RagAss]

9. they have Universal Healthcare...what the fuck are they complaining about?

[MedleyMisty]

11. They're heading in our direction

But I guess they're like Americans, in that not much of them will care enough to do anything until it gets as bad there as it is here.

[KamaAina]

10. Where might that have been? National Post, perhaps?

Alas, the Canadian M$M isn't immune to right-wing cant.

[Bozita]

12. I thought FoxNews was not allowed to operate in Canada.

[fascisthunter]

13. lol...okeedokee

[graywarrior]

14. Yeah? The piece of crap Boston Herald claims the same thing here in America

I smell the stink of desperation. Have a nice visit.

[laundry_queen]

17. Don't dismiss the OP so easily

OP is not wrong. There's an attitude in Canada that what is going on in the U.S. has nothing to do with us. People around here are carrying on with an air of superiority over the U.S. right now "haha, look at how good we're doing, your system sucks" and they don't see that our system is changing as well. They don't realize that we survived the crash relatively unscathed because of left-wing banking policies and regulations and that Harper would take those regulations away in a second if he thought he could get away with it, which he can't at the moment but just watch, he'll try. But, yeah, big disconnect here, and there is the attitude of "the protests are nothing but druggies and hippies" in some cities. In my city, the Occupy protests have been wonderful but that's not true in every city. Vancouver has had a couple of deaths which is freaking *some* people out and with the media pointing to those deaths as a reason why NOT to protest, much of the public has bought into it since our media historically has been less biased than the one down south. People tend to believe it, the same way CNN is thought of as more credible than Fox news by the average American so when it pushes some crap meme, people tend to believe in a way they would not have if it was on Fox. Same thing here, if it's on the news here, us Canadians tend to have more faith in it than if it was on a US news channel. That is dangerous as our media is slowly shifting in the US direction. Okay, I'm rambling, but the OP, even if he/she is a disruptor, is not necessarily wrong on this.

[Number23]

31. Australia has had a similar situation

A few of the Occupy movements have absolutely fizzled. One organizer finally admitted that the problems are not the same or as bad here as they are in the States.

I saw a post a few days ago from Occupy Sydney with protesters there chanting "we are the 99%." They looked ridiculous as Australia's wealth distribution (while still horrendous) is not 1 vs 99% the way it is in the States. Plus the safety net here is much stronger.

I'm sure Occupy Norway would probably have a similar result that we've seen in Canada and Australia.

[Morning Dew]

16. Vancouver and Victoria, maybe. Not Toronto.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1082911--forcing-a-needed-debate

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

22. Perhaps the Canadian powers-that-be took that poll of the Canadian CEOs nt

[chollybocker]

23. What a load of horse hockey.

My advice: stop listening to the news. They are lying to you.

[Blue Owl]

25. yup, heard it on "the news"

which is not owned or controlled in any way by the 1%...

:sarcasm:

[devilgrrl]

26. Canadians or some Torontonians?

What lame heading.

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[Zorra]

28. In other news, Rick Perry cites fake Canadian Occupy Toronto quote

on campaign trail.

Perry summarized the quote as: "I guess greed just makes you work hard."

The actual fake quote in Schatzker's piece was attributed to "Jeremy, 38," from the Occupy Toronto protests: "It's weird protesting on Bay Street. You get there at 9 a.m. and the rich bankers who you want to hurl insults at and change their world view have been at work for two hours already. And then when it's time to go, they're still there. I guess that's why they call them the one per cent. I mean, who wants to work those kinds of hours? That's the power of greed."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/rick-perry-cites-fake-canadian-occupy-toronto-quote-on-campaign-trail-133012448.html

[freshwest]

30. Soon to be relayed as The Gospel to millions of RWers. Telling them whatever they want to hear...