EuroMaidan at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto

Hundreds of Toronto's Ukrainian-Canadians and their supporters came out to Yonge and Dundas Square on Sunday afternoon to voice support for the demonstrators on the Maidan in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine. Our estimate is about 2,000 people, but estimates vary and we are not experts so don't sue us!

Lots of people young and old came out. Many politicians including Tim Hudak and Chrystia Freeland came out to say a few words of support. Community leaders such as Pavlo Grod (President of Ukrainian Canadian Congress) and various priests and bishops also said a few words. Even St. Nicholas came out to tell Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych to stop being a nasty lad and call off his riot police.

Since it was a bit hard to hear the speakers across the entire square, people broke up into several mini-demonstrations, some singing Ukrainian songs, others playing with a ginormous blue and yellow parachute and still more chanting various slogans.

All of this was video taped and photographed so that the people demonstrating in Ukraine can see that they are being supported in Toronto.

During the event representatives of Ukrainian Canadian Congress asked for donations so that they could pay for rooms around the Maidan in Kyiv where protestors could sleep in shifts and also for warm clothes for the protestors. Money is being sent over every few days in order to get it to the protestors as quickly as possible.

You can see a lot more photos on our Facebook page in the album titled EuroMaidan on Yonge and Dundas.