

Police in riot gear are blocking off street access to the International Economic Forum of the Americas, an annual global summit that has drawn more than 3,000 participants from a dozen countries.
A small crowd of people dressed in black gathered just before 9 a.m. in front of a police human barricade.
- Authorities are braced for the possible protest planned by CLAC, an anti-capitalist collective based in Montreal.
- The conference's main partner is Power Corporation, owned and run by Quebec's Desmarais family, "the most powerful in Canada," according to CLAC's protest website.
- About 150 experts will make presentations over the next few days on themes including the economy, natural resources, finance, and health care.
- The expected protest comes a day after a raucous Grand Prix weekend that saw daily confrontations between police and protesters across Montreal.

The protests are building on a months-long student movement against planned tuition hikes, and have come to include wider social movements opposed to capitalism.
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