"Small" attendance at Winnipeg global warming protest

Excerpts from this article (which carefully avoids giving us the actual number of Winnipeg's 600,000+ residents who attended this protest):

The messages came from a gaggle of peaceful protesters gathered outside the Manitoba Legislature yesterday afternoon for an international day of action supporting the Kyoto Protocol.
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Though the local protest was small in scale, its participants shared the view that every little bit helps.

"If this does anything, us standing here freezing our butts off, it's a good thing," said 25-year-old Andrea Stewart...

Amusingly, at the bottom of this story, we see a link to this one, entitled "Cold enough to kill":

Extreme weather is difficult enough for those who are well-prepared, but for the city's most vulnerable it can be deadly.

"It's cold enough to kill you," said Blake, who is currently staying at Siloam Mission in Winnipeg's core area.
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Yesterday morning the deep freeze continued as the wind chill dropped to -40 C in Winnipeg. Environment Canada had issued a wind chill warning for Winnipeg and other parts of Manitoba.