A vibrant and energetic crowd filled Parliament Hill today where Shawn caught up with the CBC’s Kady O’Malley to get her take on the protest and what it’s like live-blogging these types of events.

O’Malley on the prorogation protest from Shawn Dearn on Vimeo.

It’s been a busy day. When I wasn’t freezing and tweeting at the Ottawa protest, I was tracking the crowd-counts from across Canada. With 32 communities that I could find tweeted reports on; I estimate that over 25,000 people rallied against the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue parliament. I’ve uploaded and embedded below a PDF with the community totals and my methodology. I’m hoping to continue to add to the list, please comment if you have numbers from cities not listed (or if you have a correction.) Update: as of Sunday at 8:00 am I have added 7 more communities; including New York City and St. Johns. I’m still looking for smaller communities to report. About twenty listed events could push it to over 30,000. Again, please comment with corrections or more information. Estimated Crowd Attendance for #CAPP Rallies To provide a visual look at today’s Ottawa protest, this is Gregory Pang’s shots of the demonstration today from Flickr. And lastly, a quick look at the instant popularity of the #noprorogue hash tag on Twitter.