{"id":181340,"date":"2023-09-21T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=181340"},"modified":"2023-09-21T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:07:33","slug":"1-million-march-4-children-protestors-counter-protestors-gather-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/1-million-march-4-children-protestors-counter-protestors-gather-at-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20181 Million March 4 Children\u2019 protestors, counter-protestors gather at city hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of counter-protestors gathered at Confederation Park to show their support to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in response to the \"1 Million March 4 Children\" yesterday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_181395\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181395\" class=\"wp-image-181395\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8267-1-scaled-e1695315374565-500x353.jpg\" alt=\"1 Million March protestors in front of city hall. A woman in the front is holding a canadian flag, another protestor behind her holds a sign that reads 'stop grooming our grandkids'. an lgbt+ flag is in the window inside City Hall.\" width=\"266\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8267-1-scaled-e1695315374565-500x353.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8267-1-scaled-e1695315374565-304x215.jpg 304w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8267-1-scaled-e1695315374565.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-181395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 Million March protestors in front of City Hall. Photo by Christena Lawrie.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 1 Million March 4 Children consisted of protests held across Canada on Sept. 20, with their main cause being the rejection of what they call \"gender ideology\" in Canadian schools.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 Million March protesters in Kingston gathered in front of City Hall at around 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. At the same time, Kingston\u2019s 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies responded with a counter protest approximately twice the size of the opposing crowd, gathering directly across the street in Confederation Park. At the peak of the protest, approximately 150 protestors and 300 counter-protestors were present. Cars passing through the divide between the two crowds showed their support for either side, honking and sporting flags and stickers.<\/p>\n<p>At around 11:40 a.m., the 1 Million March protestors turned down Market Street to march through downtown. Counter-protestors celebrated and overtook both sides of Ontario Street, standing on the steps of city hall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_181371\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181371\" class=\"wp-image-181371 \" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8275-scaled-e1695314897235-500x328.jpg\" alt=\"2slgbtqia+ protestors in front of city hall. They fill the steps of city hall, holding various rainbow signs and signs supporting the trans community.\" width=\"459\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8275-scaled-e1695314897235-500x328.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8275-scaled-e1695314897235-320x210.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8275-scaled-e1695314897235.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-181371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Counter-protestors on the steps of City Hall. Photo by Christena Lawrie.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of counter-protestors gathered at Confederation Park to show their support to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in response to the &#8220;1 Million March 4 Children&#8221; yesterday. The 1 Million March 4 Children consisted of protests held across Canada on Sept. 20, with their main cause being the rejection of what they call &#8220;gender ideology&#8221; in Canadian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":181359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,225],"tags":[30564,30565,27113,8934,26944],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181542,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181340\/revisions\/181542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181340"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=181340"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=181340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}