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Worlds collided in Vancouver on Saturday when two protest marches nearly did the same.

The Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity, now in its fifth year, had some competition this time out, as another protest, The Vancouver March to Close All Slaughterhouses, walked a similar route at the same time. The two groups met on Granville Street on Saturday, where police suddenly found themselves trying to manage a traffic jam of causes.

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“I don’t know if they knew about our march, but I didn’t know about theirs,” said Andy Sorfleet, president of the Triple-X Workers’ Solidarity Association of B.C., the organization behind the Red Umbrella March.

The duelling protests led to some confusion. A video posted to Twitter by CKNW reporter Kyle Benning shows the strange scene, with the vegans and sex worker activists staring one another down like a very progressive game of red rover is about to break out.