CBC's take on the Day of Solidarity

FROM CBC.CA.

Canadian writers take to streets to support striking U.S. colleagues

Solidarity events also held in U.K., Europe, Mexico, New Zealand and other areas

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | 4:02 PM ET

CBC News

Screenwriters in Toronto and Montreal took to the streets Wednesday to show solidarity with members of the Writers Guild of America, who are in the fourth week of a strike.

Canadian TV and film writers joined writers in Paris, London, Berlin and other entertainment centres around the world in a show of support for their U.S. colleagues.

A member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain shows his support for striking Hollywood screenwriters.
(Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press)

"As Canadian writers, what happens in the U.S. desperately affects us," said Denis McGrath, a Canadian screenwriter picketing outside Toronto's Sony Centre.

"We already make a lot less money than American writers do, and we still have it better than writers in other countries," he said.

"So all around the world today, in six, seven cities around the world, different members of their national writers guilds are marching in solidarity with the WGA for their deal on internet rights."

Yes. If you insist, you may now officially call me, "Quote Whore." But only capped like that. It's classier.