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G20: I saw a few police officers removing gas masks from protestors' bags in Allan Gardens and others saw the same thing elsewhere on the weekend. We're not talking about black-garbed thugs in bandanas, but young people, as well as volunteer street medics, who'd bought the masks as a precaution (as did most journalists). Why? It's illegal to carry a gas mask to a demonstration with the potential for tear gas?
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Linda Diebel is a veteran political reporter who worked across Canada, including on Parliament Hill, and as the Toronto Star's bureau chief in both Washington and Latin America. She has written two books, Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa, and Stéphane Dion: Against the Current.
She's been described as "that mean Diebel person" by President George H.W. Bush and someone "with a good head on her shoulders" by Noam Chomsky. They're probably both right.
Email: ldiebel@thestar.ca
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