More than 2,000 demonstrators marched in the rain shouting ‘‘Free the people, not the market’’ and ‘‘G8, shut it down!’’ at the end of a G8 summit in Canada, free of the kind of violence that left a protester dead last year.

Shoving matches between police and anti-globalisation protesters have broken out in two Canadian cities as initially peaceful demonstrations against the summit of the world’s richest countries turned testy.