Hundreds gathered at vigils in Kitchener and Waterloo follow shootings at a Queer nightclub in Orlando. Suzie Taka delivered the following speech in Waterloo Square. The text has been lightly edited.
"I’m not a cyclist by any stretch; I have a bike that has barely been wheeled outside of my garage since its purchase. In honour of bike month and the start of the car-less phase of my adult life, I challenged myself to bike as much as I could in June."