This video does NOT show a woman being shot.  Nor does the accompanying story suggest that a woman was shot.  The video shows a woman standing nearby as police fire tear gas into the crowd.  She is out of frame when the shots are fired, and only after do we see a woman that looks like her on the ground.  A likely scenario: she pulled back as shots were fired and dropped to the ground for cover.

It is bad enough that police are firing tear gas into a crowd of Canadian protestors on the streets of Toronto.  Trying to embellish the story with an anti-police bias only weakens your side of the argument.  Let's talk about what is actually happening out there, not dystopian fantasies about murderous police shooting people in the streets.

it doesn't say shot with what you moron . she is clearly being shot with something

I can assure you that the woman on the ground was shot. Twice actually. Once in the sternum and once on her left arm. There are photos of the wounds taken in the detention center. The arm wound has not healed well. It became infected. Three weeks after the shooting, she still does not have full mobility of that arm. And she is left-handed. Wake up.... I am that girl's mother.

black bloc cops? I hope that's a typo

We are doing what they want us to do: dividing ourselves between good and bad protestors. I was hoping, after police attacks on people sitting Kumbaya and the like, that the non-violent crew would finally realise there is nothing to gain by asking a police state to 'please be nice and do the right thing for once'.... apparently not.

This fascism or not fascism argument misses the point and intentionally it seems turns a blind eye to the context in which the ruling classes and systems have functioned historically and currently to promote their interests,

It may be that the fact of class conflict that would sacrifice any number of people and their dignity through any strategy for the sake of gaining an increased concentration of wealth and power is incomprehensible; to believers in the respectful democratic plurality of a contemporary capitalist republic .

I find it incomprehensible that those who are out gunned oppressed overpowered have to apologize for any of their attempts at self determination self defense; where as the more powerful are not made to apologize or stop their violence and theft at all, but I digress.

for us to discuss whether the acusation that canada or the USA is a fascist state is a miss lable or a hyperbole we must first define our terms.

Websters will do fine for my purposes in this argument.

Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: \ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

— fas·cist \-shist also -sist\ noun or adjective often capitalized

— fas·cis·tic \fa-ˈshis-tik also -ˈsis-\ adjective often capitalized

— fas·cis·ti·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb often capitalized

So the form is cerntainly different, we have presidents prime ministers, different elected officials, so to this formaly ,we have no dictatorship so no fascism but let us dig deeper into the essence of the word.

severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control (homland security detention centers presidential decree beyond court challenge and secrecy not to mention the self censoring nationalism of the media. along with socialism for the rich)

We have that in the US, in fact the US in the 73 imposed fascism on the chilean people by helping overthrow their democracy and impose their neoliberal policies(policies by the way like that of the g8)

In Canada we see the attempt by the state and the g8 elites (types in canada esspecially mining interests) to impose severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
This is the same impulse same strategy same desired result as fascism. What the assertion that a democratic regime is fascist is to assert that it's claim on democratic values are a hollow lie to hide it's fascist actions and ambitions, that subtance not form is what matters in politics and life.

Listen to the perspectives of chilean people who lived under precisely such a regime in chile, Imposed/supported by the democratic repulic state of The USA

http://www.subversiveactionfilms.org/the-chicago-conspiracy/

The Chicago Conspiracy is about today. Following a national plebiscite in 1988, Pinochet ended his rule in 1990. The political classes in Chile only allowed the country to vote an end to the dictatorship out of growing fear of armed insurrection. 1990 brought a democratic government to Chile that continues to further the same neoliberal economic policies that were put into place by the dictatorship. Throughout the film, we follow the social discontent that exists to this day. We explore the legacy of a dictatorship.

The Chicago Conspiracy is about the students who fight a dictatorship-era educational law put into place on the last day of military rule. Over 700,000 students went on strike in 2006 to protest the privatized educational system. Police brutally repressed student marches and occupations.

The Chicago Conspiracy is about the Day of the Youth Combatant. March 29 is not only about the Vergara brothers–it is a day to remember all youth combatants who have died under the dictatorship and current democratic regime

as far as facism is concerned; musolini claimed that the inital phases of fasism always involve a merging of business and state. i can't think of a more obvious example of this than the g8/g20 summits. another hallmark of facist/totalitarian governments is to crack down upon the medias ability to cover issues. what i see whenever there is one of the various globalization summits has nothing to do with democracy, or the will of the vast majority of people on our planet.