A major intersection in downtown Toronto is being blocked by trucks as hundreds of people demonstrate on Saturday against COVID-19 measures and vaccine mandates.
Trucks are parked in the middle of Bloor Street West and Avenue Road, an intersection just north of the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Toronto police say they have arrested a man, 22, as part of the protest on the north side of Queen’s Park. He has been charged with assault with a weapon, administering a noxious substance — which in this case was a smoke bomb — and public mischief.
Police said Peel Regional paramedics were slowed down at the intersection because
