Occupy Wall Street heating up

Looks like the Occupy Wall Street protest is heating up. It's interesting to see that Canada had its OWS protests today (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal). Pretty much no video was uploaded to YouTube yet and from what I can gather, the crowds were pretty small.

Not sure why the OWS was so small in Canada, perhaps because our country isn't screwed like everywhere else in the world. At least to the extent that we have universal health, social safety nets of various sorts, our housing bubble has popped (yet) and our banks didn't commit financial suicide back in 2008.

So that level of social anger just isn't as prevalent in Canada, but that's not to say it won't be in time (we've got serious unemployment issues and under employed graduates just like everywhere else).

Anyway, I'd hate to be a politician in Italy, the UK or the US as it seems this OWS protests just keeps ramping up instead of fading away.

Riots in Italy

London Joins In (over 3,000 show up)

Cop hits woman over in NYC

Crowds keep growing in NYC

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