Occupy Saskatoon protesters break camp

Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The Starphoenix

By Charles Hamilton, The StarPhoenix    Lois Mitchell watches as coolers, water and boxes of food are loaded into pickup trucks, and the remaining tents in Friendship Park start to be torn down.
Mitchell has been camped in the park for two weeks as part of Occupy Saskatoon. On Wednesday, the group began packing up.
“It’s ongoing, but as a statement, as a political statement, we are changing our tactics,” she said in an interview at the camp.
What started as motivated group of about 30 campers on Oct. 15 who began to ‘occupy’ the downtown park in an act of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S., dwindled to half that before the decision was made to break camp on Tuesday night...Read here...