Toronto Drug-Free Christmas Festival Reaches Thousands
Toronto, 26 November 2006: Today the Toronto Drug-Free Marshals held their 18th annual Christmas Festival at Nathan Philip Square outside Toronto City Hall. A beautifully sunny afternoon greeted the thousands of Torontonians who descended on the square to skate or take in the festivities.Ten-year-old DFM Marshal Madison Whitmore, from the city hall stage, encouraged kids of all ages to be drug-free by participating in the kids' drug-free community essay contest as well as to take the Drug-Free Marshal Pledge.
The newly re-elected Mayor of Toronto, David Miller, has sent a letter of congratulations to the Drug-Free Marshals on behalf of Toronto City Council for their upcoming annual Drug-Free Christmas Festival, this year to be held at Toronto City Hall.
In Ottawa on Saturday November 18th, the Drug Free Marshals participated once again in the annual Help Santa Toy Parade. An estimated 100,000 people were along the parade route and took in the Drug-Free Marshals and their school bus float. The parade was televised live reaching hundreds of thousands more. The Drug Free Marshals every year walk along the parade route and get hundreds of signatures from youth and adults to their Drug Free Marshal Pledge.
Thousands of Montrealers were introduced to La Vérité sur la Drogue campaign this past weekend as well. With a large drug awareness display set up on Mont Royal, hundreds of booklets were distributed to interested passersby. Several teachers who stopped at the display expressed interest in getting more copies for their students.
Toronto, 12 November 2006: The Canadian edition of Freedom Magazine, the voice of the Church of Scientology, is now on-line at 
The award winning story "Crime of the Century?," by Christine Hahn and Freedom editor Thomas G. Whittle, is featured in both English and French on the site. This indepth feature article exposes the horrendous abuses suffered by thousands of young children placed in orphanages-turned-psychiatric hospitals during the reign of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis and how justice has been denied the survivors. The American National Federation of Press Women awarded the exposé 1st place winner in the category "Writing for the Web" this past September.
The Toronto Drug-Free Marshals will be holding their 18th Annual "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" Christmas Festival this coming Sunday, November 26th at Nathan Philip Square from noon to 4 PM. Everyone is invited especially parents with children who will enjoy Santa and his elves, various crafts and foods as well as a drug-free essay contest with the opportunity to be sworn in as a Drug-Free Marshal. For a flier, check out the Drug-Free Marshals' website 
The latest news on the activities of the Toronto Drug-Free Marshals is now available on-line. The DFM have been real busy and are getting ready to stage their annual Drug-Free Christmas Street Festival, this year to be held at Nathan Philip Square at Toronto City Hall. The date is Sunday, November 26th.
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