John Sewell — Three o’clock in the morning in Downtown Toronto. The streets are almost deserted. A car comes to an intersection and turns the corner without signalling. A cop car is parked nearby and approaches to pull the car ...
Read More »Increased fines for specific illegal parking on Toronto roads
In support of the City of Toronto’s congestion management plan, fines for certain types of illegal parking have been increased and will take effect March 31. Parking ticket fines will rise to $150, including for the following four illegal parking ...
Read More »‘Funkraiser’ to battle Harper’s police-state Bill C-51
Matt Currie — Toronto-based civil liberties campaigners from the group Stop C-51: Toronto are holding a “Funkraiser” on Saturday, March 12, at a bar in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. STOPC51TO is running the party to invigorate its campaign, which organizers say has fallen from ...
Read More »Toronto police have a long road to meaningful reforms
John Sewell — Optimists think this is the year the Toronto Police Services will be significantly changed and reformed. They point out that a Transformation Committee has been established to review police practices and spending. The committee consists of senior ...
Read More »Police form kids’ posse
The Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) at 52 Division is recruiting kids for its Police Kids Posse activity program that meets Wednesday evenings at University Settlement rec centre at Grange Park. Children ages 6 to 13 are welcome to attend ...
Read More »No good signs police misbehaviour will change soon
John Sewell– Almost every day there’s a new and disturbing story about the police; sometimes worrisome behaviour, sometimes lack of good management, sometimes ineffective oversight. The recent police explanation of a shooting in February which left two men dead in ...
Read More »Police Accountability Bulletin: Carding, G20, tender bullets
John Sewell — This bulletin is published by the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition (TPAC), a group of individuals and organizations in Toronto interested in police policies and procedures, and in making police more accountable to the community they are committed ...
Read More »G20 kettling cop found guilty but won’t pay any real penalty
The top cop who disgraced himself and the Toronto Police Service during the G20 barbarity has been found culpable of discreditable conduct and unnecessary exercise of authority for ordering the kettling and wrongful imprisonment of hundreds both of protestors exercising ...
Read More »A dysfunctional police board oversees Toronto police
John Sewell — In November the Toronto Police Services Board decided it would not review the police service budget in its detailed form, but instead simply approve a global spending limit of $957 million recommended by the chief. When the ...
Read More »Blair feted by Yonge-Bloor-Bay business owners
Eric Morse– The Yonge Bloor Bay Business Association (YBBA) a private association of business owners in one of the biggest and wealthiest concentrations of business in Toronto, sits at the junction of three Toronto Police divisions, 51, 52 and 53. ...
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