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Anonymous Threatens Online Attack if Rob Ford Evicts Occupy Toronto

Amorphous hacktivist network says Toronto Occupiers are exercising their right to speech and should be left alone.

“The brave citizens of Toronto are peaceful and well-mannered Occupiers, and we will not let the City, or the mayor that uses vulgar language in public, get involved. You have said that by next week the Occupiers shall be removed, and we say by next week if you do not change your mind, you shall [...]

Urban Planner: August 16, 2008

PROTEST: Anti-Scientology group Anonymous is having another planned protest at the Church of Scientology today. If you haven’t been to one before, hordes of people typically disguised by masks congregate outside the Scientology building and chant things like “Fuck Tom Cruise!” and encourage cars to honk their horns! Meanwhile, the staff at the Church of [...]

Anons Flash Scientology

Things between Anonymous and the Church of Scientology have been getting downright nasty lately. Vindictive, even. For much of the last week, Project Chanology’s local adherents have been holding court at Scientology’s Yonge Street chapter, carrying out what they call “flash raids.” Unlike the broader, theme-based demonstrations of the past few months—addressing everything from the [...]

Preorder Scientology Lulz Now

Forgive us if we’re breaking rules 1 and 2, but it didn’t take us long to figure out that this fake Wii Battletoads website (site has changed, see Google cache for original) was a viral marketing campaign against the Church of Scientology‘s “Fair Game” policy. This past Saturday marked the latest “in real life raid” [...]

Fair Game For Scientology

Following demonstrations on February 10 and March 15, Anonymous once again occupied the sidewalks across from 696 Yonge Street on Saturday. This time, however, the windowshades of Scientology’s Toronto outlet were drawn, its ground-level offices apparently vacant; with the exception of one lonely camera jockey, Hubbard’s loyal army of hyper-vigilant paparazzi were conspicuously absent. Maybe [...]

PhotoTO: Happy Birthday L. Ron

Photo by exMOHAX Led by the group Anonymous and their ongoing campaign against the Church of Scientology, Project Chanology, protesters gathered outside the church’s Toronto headquarters on Sunday to mark Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday. It was the second such worldwide protest in just over a month; the last protest—a surprisingly massive one—took place [...]

Was That a Hate Crime?

Photo by Joe Lee (London, via Londonist). A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology labelled Sunday’s protest outside its office at Yonge & St Mary—part of a worldwide series of protests—a “religious hate crime” and said that the “hate crimes of Anonymous should be condemned,” as reported in Torontoist, CTV and the Toronto Sun, among [...]

Scientology’s Legion of Doom

If you passed the Church of Scientology’s Toronto chapter at Yonge & St. Mary on Sunday, you may have momentarily entertained a dark fantasy that Tom Cruise would emerge from the masked masses amid gales of manic laughter, igniting the dissenting throng with bolts of righteous lightning. Sadly, no such fun. Rumour has it that [...]