Police raided a university building and rounded up more protesters today in an effort to quell further violence at the G20 global economic summit in Toronto.
Police said they have arrested more than 500 demonstrators, many of whom were hauled away in plastic handcuffs and taken to a temporary holding centre constructed for the summit.
Residents watched in shock as clashes between protesters and police wracked parts of downtown. Black smoked billowed from the burning police vehicles, while youths could be seen vandalising property.
One group was witnessed snatching mannequins from an American Apparel shop and using them to smash the windows of Zanzibar, a strip club.
Nearby, a Subway sandwich shop and a branch of Scotia Bank had their windows broken. “Bomb the Bank,” was scrawled on a wall.

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The day was getting long for us, so we decided to peel back and start filing work. On our way out, we saw that Remington’s had been attacked by protesters, which demands that we ask: since when do protesters hate gay strip clubs? On Queen Street West and at Queen’s Park, more shit would soon go down, but at a certain point, it all starts to blend together. The protesters are mad about everything and the cops have given up on restraint. One cop, late in the day—a British ex-pat who used to be regular army in Northern Ireland and who you can tell is the sort of guy who just can’t stand to leave that line of work—told us emphatically that “they should’ve just cracked down right at the beginning, so the little bastards would know we’re not going to let them get away with this sort of thing,” and his sentiment was clearly shared by many of his fellows.

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A woman has been killed. But what at first seems like a straightforward murder of a prostitute rapidly becomes much more complicated, when it begins to seem that the crime may have transpired in the parallel and not particularly friendly city state of Ul Qoma. Beszel and Ul Qoma occupy precisely the same geographical territory, but moving between them requires a passport. Citizens of Beszel are trained from birth to see only the citizens and structures of their own city, and to âœunseeâ the citizens and structures of Ul Qoma that exist all around them. On a given street, the first three houses might be Ul Qoman, while the fourth might be Besz; a citizen of Beszel, trained from birth to pick up on the most subtle visual cues, will see only the fourth house. The set-up is absurd and yet eerily plausible: how often, in your movements through your daily life, have you chosen not to see something?

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It would have helped if Hex’s origin hadn’t been reduced to a cheesy animated sequence at the beginning. Unlike Spider-Man and Superman, not much is known about the origins of Hex. The film should have been lengthened to reveal more about who he was before he became such a man of mystery.
The convoluted script could be why Brolin looks like he’s sleepwalking through the movie. His stiff acting is only made worse by the makeup he wears to portray the scarred hero. He sounds like he’s doing a bad Sling Blade impersonation.
Megan Fox plays the only one Hex can confide in, a gun-totting prostitute named Lilah. Jonah Hex suggests that prostitution must have been a great profession in the 19th century — Lilah clearly has the best dental plan of anyone in the movie.

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… The Phoenix Coyotes re-signed defenseman Adrian Aucoin to a two-year contract after he played all 82 regular-season games for them in his first year with Phoenix.
Four exhibitions too many, Goodell says
Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL no longer needs four preseason games, and that the league should change its offseason training programs.
“It’s clear the fans don’t want four preseason games,” Goodell said. “It’s clear the players don’t want four preseason games. … So we have to evolve just as we did a couple of decades ago when we went from six preseason games to four.”
NFL and union officials discussed adding two games to the regular season – and cutting two exhibitions – when they met Wednesday.
– Goodell says he still doesn’t have enough information to make a decision on possibly disciplining Tennessee quarterbackl Vince Young, who got into a fight at a Dallas strip club.

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After Saturday’s qualifying session, I headed downtown for a Ferrari reception at the Hotel St. James, a beautiful establishment favoured by rock stars and software moguls. Half a dozen new Ferraris were set out on the street, glittering under temporary floodlights. Beautiful young women in pastel summer dresses strutted on a red carpet that had been rolled out for the occasion. A polished Lamborghini snarled up and disgorged a woman who looked like a runway model, along with her driver-escort, an elderly man with a Hugo Boss suit and a jet black hairpiece. Next to his female companion, he looked like a garden gnome.
Montreal was drunk with speed. Over on Saint Catherine St., a crowd cheered as a customized motorcycle pulled off a long wheelie. A stripper in tiny hot pants was stationed on the sidewalk, enticing customers into a neon-lit doorway. The night air was filled with the music of high-compression engines, and the curbs were lined with everything from American muscle cars to Maseratis and Honda Civics that looked like they’d been taken from the set of The Fast and the Furious.

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Indeed, Agent Gagnon (fictive name) from SPVM explains that these “civil cops” are specifically on duty to stop what he calls as “criminals without a cause”, such as drug dealers and prostitutes. There are necessary for dealing with these issues.  Nevertheless, he adds, policemen in uniforms are and will always be a majority. He notes that what has recently changed is the presence of “hidden cops” on city roads. Due to numerous complaints and security issues, Gagnon says the SPVM has decided to incorporate more of them circulating in Montreal’s populated arteries, such as Ste-Catherine street. It’s a controversial issue: invisible cops may well be considered a step toward a more secure environment but they may also be seen as another cause leading to fear, paranoia and the invasion of privacy.

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Montreal police target prostitution Last Updated: Monday, June 14, 2010 | 8:36 PM ET CBC News
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Montreal police have announced an action plan to crack down on prostitution in the city’s east end.
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Officers will also set up roadblocks to hand out pamphlets, warning about the consequences of hiring prostitutes.
Most of the prostitutes‘ clients are not people who live in the neighbourhood, said Montreal police Cmdr. François Cayer.
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“You will find a lot of prostitutes probably those prostitutes worked usually in the Quartier des spectacles and they are now in Hochelaga and we cannot accept that,” said Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough Mayor Réal Ménard.
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Dopamine, a local group that works with prostitutes, said it is not fully on board with the project.
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The borough said it wants to open a drop-in centre for prostitutes in the coming years.

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France is going to win because France is simply the best country in the world. This, every Frenchie will tell you, even those exiled on the Plateau and those who read the Mirror. Next, les Bleus, much like the Habs, have always done the opposite of expectations: winning big when everybody thinks they suck (the Cup in 1998, the final in 2006), and losing badly when they’re a favourite (pretty much the rest of the time). This year, to be honest, France is a total loser: they qualified at the last minute thanks to an infamous handball against the Irish, and most recently four players were involved in a case of juvenile prostitution. On top of that, Zizou, the bald, tenebrous superhero (not to be confused with Steve Zissou!) is not up for another comeback. However, as sinful as they might be, les Bleus drew the easiest group of all: South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay. My opinion: as long as les Bleus keep their hands off the ball (and underage hookers) and restrain from headbutting taunting Italians (our archrivals), they might just win ze Cup. Allez les Bleus!!!

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… Messier deserves his own section in this post. He has brought the Cup onto Letterman and done “Stupid Cup Tricks.” He brought it to bars, and let fans drink from it. He has brought it to an auto body shop for repairs. He brought it to Scores, a NY strip club. He also put it on stage with an Edmonton stripper in 1987, and she gave it a brothel-quality dry humping.
- In 1996, Cheryl Riley attends a party that Mike Ricci brings the cup to. Mrs. Riley, who had been told she could not conceive, kissed the Cup on a whim. She had never heard of Lynn Patrick from the 1940 NHL Champion Rangers, who had dangled his genitals in it. She was pregnant in no time…Lord Stanley is a dirtydirtydog, I tell ya . She named the boy “Stanley.”
- Also in 1996, the child of Stefan LeFebvre was baptised in it. This was 10 years, and hopefully numerous polishings, after Messier paid some slut to straddle it at an Edmonton strip club.

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