{"id":21444,"date":"2020-02-19T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/two-men-have-been-charged-after-dumping-manure-outside-doug-fords-office\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:37:34","slug":"two-men-have-been-charged-after-dumping-manure-outside-doug-fords-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/two-men-have-been-charged-after-dumping-manure-outside-doug-fords-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged after dumping manure outside Doug Ford&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The police have charged two men for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/police-charge-two-men-after-pile-of-manure-dumped-outside-doug-ford-s-constituency-office-1.4812736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly dumping manure outside of Doug Ford&#8217;s<\/a> office in Etobicoke last December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A video posted on social media of two men shovelling manure from the back of a pick-up truck and onto the ground in front of Ford&#8217;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanicity.com\/hamilton\/city\/2019\/12\/hamilton-climate-activists-dump-cow-manure-on-doug-fords-office-doorstep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared on December 22nd<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police charge two men after pile of manure dumped outside Doug Ford&#39;s constituency office <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cB4PWzOtjD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/cB4PWzOtjD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ob8TGSJPst\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ob8TGSJPst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CP24 (@CP24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP24\/status\/1228426214999838721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hamilton chapter of Extinction Rebellion took credit for the stunt saying it was in response to Ontario&#8217;s auditor general declaring the provincial government&#8217;s climate change plan was a &#8220;load of crap.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time of the incident, a statement by the premier&#8217;s office said that Ford will not be responding to the group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto police were called to the scene to investigate. Since, Cameron Topp, 49, and Dennis Alvey, 55, were arrested and charged with mischief under $5,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both men are scheduled to appear in court next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topp said that they wanted to do something that will bring attention to the climate change crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police have charged two men for allegedly dumping manure outside of Doug Ford&#8217;s office in Etobicoke last December.\u00a0 A video posted on social media of two men shovelling manure from the back...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":21064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[891,1635,1074,4971,19,20,5102,21,1476,4211],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/climatemanure.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27594,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions\/27594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}