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Earth needs more than an hour, my bitches, so Brita is giving her a month. People gathered in a long line that stretched around Yonge-Dundas Square, did a few loops around some barriers and waited for their turn to enter Brita Village to pick up a free Brita water pitcher and filter. Here is what they have to say about the event on the Square's website.

While streets were made for driving they can be a lot of fun to walk and ride in when busy roads are closed to cars - let freedom reign. Yonge Street and Bay Streets are favourites roadways that Toronto likes to open for pedestrians only during festivals and other large events.
Sometimes people are so jubilant that they gather in such large numbers near the Yonge-Dundas Square that they shut down the streets without official City approval - like when someone's soccer team wins a world tournament or a local beach volleyball team creams the competition down at Ashbridges Bay.

I knew spring was here but I was not prepared for the urban jungle that had grown around the TTC bus stop at the Dundas and Yonge intersection at the Eaton Centre. There must be a little more radiation in the air lately or maybe they were magical seeds.
Someone must have thought that this was the real deal because he was walking around in shorts - he looked to pasty white to have been a zombie so I am not really sure what the heck was going on with the show off - now that's a Canadian.
Across the street in the Yonge-Dundas Square there was the finals of the Great Canadian Appathon 2011. The goal was to develop a great mobile game in a limited amount of time and the winners took home a share of $45,000 in winnings.  Here is Super Punch team holding an oversize $25,000 prize cheque.
I saw a couple of free range Red Bull vehicles in the square, they are like CityTV, they are everywhere. Red Bull, still not as good as Dr Pepper Cherry!

The annual Toronto Pillow Fight has moved from the Yonge and Eglinton to Yonge-Dundas Square. It also started later in the day from the previous rounds - now the pillows started flying at 8:00pm in the evening. Luckily the nearby advertising billboards provided some extra light on the fun. The pillow fighters wore less costumes due to the cold (even though some brave souls fought without shirts) than last year (see my pictures of the 2010 fight here).
I met Lori Kufner (above), one of the organizers of the Toronto event from www.NewMindSpace.com hugging a large stuffed bunny rabbit (I asked her if it pooped jelly beans and she said yes!), who was enjoying the amount of people who turned out to participate and also the people who were on hand to watch the excitement. The date change was made to coincide with International Pillow Fight Day held around the world on April 2nd.
There was also a band called Samba Elegua that had a groovin' beat pumping the crowd up in a fury of pillow flinging state and a small group friendly people giving out Free Hugs.

The heart of downtown Toronto continues to be the Yonge and Dundas intersection and when people want to celebrate or protest the first place they go is the busy roadway and the adjacent public park - Yonge-Dundas Square. With so much turmoil in the world there always seems to be plenty of people ready to gather to protest something. Today it was no different as the middle east has so many countries that are pressing for changes.
Countries like Bahrain, Libya where the UN has started to enforce a no-fly zone over the country with rebels  in a battle against the leader Muammar Gaddafi and Egypt where protests have already forced changes in leadership.