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John Sewell — Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 78 — On August 27, Madeleine Meilleur, the Ontario Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, announced that every police officer in the province could carry a conducted energy weapon (CEW), providing ...

Premier Wynne Must: Rescind the Taser Roll-Out Implement Coroners’ Inquest Recommendations and Save Lives Put Police Under Public, Civilian Control! The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) is calling on the provincial government to rescind its decision to permit all Ontario ...

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) responded to news that Constable James Forcillo will be charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Toronto teen Sammy Yatim by saying that justice won’t be satisfied until there is full ...

Certainly the promise of free food, music and community helped, but hundreds turned out for the fifth annual Bob Kemp Day, sponsored by the 51 Division Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and some local merchants. Many were there Aug. 15 ...

Toronto Police Accountability Coalition report — Eighteen-year-old Sammy Yatim was acting strangely on the night of Friday July 26 on the Dundas streetcar. He pulled out a Swiss Army knife and demanded that everyone leave the streetcar. The driver was ...

Frank Touby — The pride and joy of so many St. Lawrence Neighbourhood young people is a glorious basketball court on The Esplanade across from the St. Lawrence Rec Centre that was, in effect, ‘vandalized’ by a thoughtless cop chasing ...

Dennis Hanagan – Volunteers from 51 Division will survey residents in Regent Park, St. Jamestown and the Sherbourne corridor this May to hear their concerns about safety in their neighbourhoods. They’ll be asking questions as part of the division’s summer ...

Dennis Hanagan – Five 51 Division officers will be recognized in May: one for rescuing people at an Ontario St. chemical spill, and four others for investigative work including guns and gangs. Inspector Gary Meissner announced the honours at the ...

Good intentions in public life are to be welcomed, but they can often be deceiving. Sometimes the good intention is as far as it gets. That seems to be how the Toronto Police Services Board has been acting. Lots of ...

Robin Careless – The Aug. 26 murder of Jelena Loncar outside of C Lounge at 456 Wellington St. W. triggered the Wellington Place Neighbourhood Association (WPNA) to call a community meeting on Sept. 29. Police from 14 Division were in ...