Angered by sweeping provincial budget cuts, thousands of protesters shut down the mass-transit system in Canada's largest city on Friday and briefly besieged the stock exchange.
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Organized mainly by labor unions with support from church and anti-poverty groups, the two-day protest is the biggest yet against deep spending cuts imposed over the past 16 months by Ontario's conservative government.Scuffles flared at several locations in Toronto. Riot police and security guards temporarily sealed off the stock exchange, barring entry or exit, after scores of protesters forced their way into a lobby. Trading continued uninterrupted.