Helluva story. Here's the whole thing from Wiki:

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Canada. The riot can only be understood in the context of the anti-semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.[1]

The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits Park between two local clubs, Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor.[2]

The riot occurred soon after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and in the midst of the Great Depression. The Toronto papers, including the Telegram and the Toronto Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed as lawyers, professors, teachers, etc. in Germany, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.[3]

At that time, the Jewish community in Toronto was predominantly poor and working class. They were also the subject of discrimination and were excluded from summer resorts outside of the city. Jewish families and youths in particular would therefore cool off during the hot summer months by staying in town and going to the predominantly Anglo Beaches area in order to swim. This resulted in complaints and resentment from some local residents. Some of the locals formed "Swastika Clubs", which openly displayed the Nazi symbol to express their displeasure and make Jews feel unwanted.[4] The leaders of the Swastika Club initially insisted that the swastika had nothing to do with Hitler. They said they merely wanted to keep the Beach clean. After a meeting with Jewish leaders backed by City officials, the Swastika club agreed to drop its symbol and its name. At that point, several of the members joined the Swastika Association of Canada that was much more open about its links to Hitler.[5]

The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. Police were warned that there could be trouble at the second game, but those warnings were ignored. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started.[6]

The Toronto Daily Star described the event the next day:
“ While groups of Jewish and Gentile youths wielded fists and clubs in a series of violent scraps for possession of a white flag bearing a swastika symbol at Willowvale Park last night, a crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob and surged wildly about the park and surrounding streets, trying to gain a view of the actual combatants, which soon developed in violence and intensity of racial feeling into one of the worst free-for-alls ever seen in the city.

Scores were injured, many requiring medical and hospital attention... Heads were opened, eyes blackened and bodies thumped and battered as literally dozens of persons, young or old, many of them non-combatant spectators, were injured more or less seriously by a variety of ugly weapons in the hands of wild-eyed and irresponsible young hoodlums, both Jewish and Gentile".[7]
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No one was killed in the riots. There was criticism of the police for not being ready to intervene, as they had been during previous potential problems in the Beach area.[8] After the riot, Mayor Stewart warned against displaying the swastika and there were no further riots.[9]

The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents.

In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.

>> ^coolhund:

>> ^Peroxide:
>> ^coolhund:
Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=903

You fail at internet.

Oh so youre picking some random nutjob site and take everything for granted thats written there.
Alright, Ill let you know when my website is ready that tells you to jump off a cliff.
But thanks for the ironic laugh at the end.


Show me your site, I expect it will have less funding from Exxon Mobil than any - denial of anthropogenic climate change - site you'll find.

Also, I have jumped off a cliff, it was fun. PLUS it only endangered my own life, not those of all the generations to come, like we are doing with climate change.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^coolhund:
Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.

There isn't a "reputable" scientist that doesn't understand global climate change is a fact and that humans are causing it, because as soon as such a person exists they lose their "reputation".


Yeah I know. And thats called complete and utter ignorance.
Have a nice life.

>> ^Peroxide:

>> ^coolhund:
Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=903

You fail at internet.


Oh so youre picking some random nutjob site and take everything for granted thats written there.
Alright, Ill let you know when my website is ready that tells you to jump off a cliff.
But thanks for the ironic laugh at the end.

>> ^coolhund:

Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.


http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=903



You fail at internet.

>> ^coolhund:

Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.


There isn't a "reputable" scientist that doesn't understand global climate change is a fact and that humans are causing it, because as soon as such a person exists they lose their "reputation".

Both sides have nutjobs. Picking them out doesnt really make your point objectively.
Should have gone to John Christy or Svensmark and hundreds other reputable scientists instead.

>> ^Xax:

He's tired of dealing with the crazies? And he's a Republican politician? Come on Chris, come to our side.


Unfortunately this is the exception with Christie, not the rule. Normally he's bombastically blasting away at people who're making sense, not people who aren't.

Couldn't he be saying a muslim american? Instead of muslim-american?

As in, an american who happens to be muslim, not in the sense of african-american.
>> ^hpqp:

Nice defence, but please, "Muslim-American"? Stop making religion sound like the equivalent of ethnic origin, it is not! Islam is not a race; Sohail Mohammed is simply an American of Indian origins who holds muslim beliefs.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Been cycleing through the TNG library on Netflix - Worf's still got it.>> ^deathcow:

She looks like Christy Canyon wearing a Klingon chest belt like Worf had.

She looks like Christy Canyon wearing a Klingon chest belt like Worf had.

>> ^Sagemind:

The Globe and Mail:
http://
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/student-cites-freedom-of-speech-after-suspension-for-online-videos/article2043954/
Oh, and here is his FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Christie/128772053860187


Oh for fuck's sake with the erroneous "Freedom of Speech" bullshit. Schools ain't the government passing laws.

If freedom of speech worked that way, the media would be filled with every crack pot and borderline psycho who had a personal axe to gri... ok, that's a bad analogy, but FoS still doesn't protect him.

The Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/student-cites-freedom-of-speech-after-suspension-for-online-videos/article2043954/

Oh, and here is his FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Christie/128772053860187

My thoughts exactly. I'll stick with Redmonton.
>> ^Tingles:

ah BC. Home sweet home. Lowest paying wages, highest cost of living in the country.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Hunter S. Thompson? Hubble Space Telescope? Health Sciences and Technology? High Speed Train?


If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Neither can we, that's the point- if you follow.