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Teen climate crusader Greta Thunberg, the inspiration behind the Fridays for Future movement, is in Montreal for the culmination of a week-long Global Climate Strike.

The crowd in Montreal was estimated to be in the tens of thousands, many of them young people who want leaders to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2050.

Hundreds of demonstrators began assembling at Vancouver City Hall around 11 a.m. for a noon rally and then marched across the Cambie Bridge through the downtown core before gathering near the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library at West Georgia and Hamilton streets.

Vancouver police, who estimated the crowd downtown at 100,000 people, said no major incidents were reported.