A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators was met by a large police presence on Sunday, as they marched in North York to test a directive banning them from residential parts of a local Jewish neighbourhood.
At 1 p.m., about 20 people carrying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans walked west along Sheppard Avenue from its intersection with Bathurst Street, the site of competing weekly rallies about the Mideast conflict since at least fall 2024.
A line of Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers and cruisers blocked off each side street along the main thoroughfare. At each one, organizers asked if they would be allowed down the street, and officers instructed them to keep moving.
WATCH:
Protesters at Bathurst and Sheppard complain to police about an individual wearing a makeshift niqab and draped in a Pride flag.
“This is incitement,” says a protester, himself dressed in a full keffiyeh face covering and sunglasses.
📸 Mar 29, 2026#Toronto… pic.twitter.com/TzwiKq4KkD
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 29, 2026
That’s a lot of cops and firemen to deploy. The cost of policing these cranks is unsustainable.
