Following the release of new data relating to use of force by Hamilton police, anti-racism groups are calling for immediate action to address the finding that Black people are grossly over-represented in the data. The data shows that force was used against Blacks people 17 percent of the time even though they represent 5 […]
A man involved in a car accident last Monday in Puerto Rico’s capital fled the scene in an ambulance that had arrived to help him, police said. The incident occurred when the unidentified man hit another car on one of Puerto Rico’s busiest highways in a minor fender-bender. An ambulance was called out of precaution, […]
“This election is a choice between crime and chaos versus law and order…I’ve never seen things this bad.” That was Mark Saunders, former Toronto police chief (2015-2020), now the city’s mayoral candidate in the upcoming June 26th by-election. There is a large constituency of Torontonians and an even larger number of residents of comparable […]
According to a Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) report Black and Middle Eastern people were more than twice as likely to be searched in the region while in custody compared to the regions population. A WRPS departmental manager Amanda Williams says that they are now trying to find the reason why this is so. The […]
EIGHTEEN girls and one boy were killed in a fire at a secondary school dormitory in Guyana, shortly before midnight on Sunday. The girls were students of the Mahdia Secondary School who lived on the compound in a dormitory. The boy, Adonijah Jerome who was five year old and the youngest of the victims, lived […]
Former Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders was a no-show By Lincoln DePradine Toronto needs to be taken “on a different track’’, because “everything is not going well’’ in the city, according to mayoral candidate Mitzie Hunter. “We have to do things differently so that we get different results – the results that we deserve,’’ Hunter […]
The City of Toronto, TTC, and Toronto Police are continuing to work together to ensure the transit system is safe for everyone – all transit riders and every transit worker. Last Thursday, Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie and TTC Chair Jon Burnside received an update on the initiatives underway to address societal challenges on the TTC. […]
Using access to information laws, CBC News investigated 120 complaints against Halifax police. They were able to get at the records despite resistance by the police bureaucracy. The idea was to allow the public to have a peek at how the type of complaints that are lodged and to understand how police handle them, especially […]
Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin pleaded guilty on Tuesday last week to manslaughter in connection with the May 2021 death of Belizean police superintendent Henry Jemmott. Jemmott was shot in the head with his own gun while alone with Hartin on a pier in Belize. “I just want Henry’s family to have peace now and I […]
LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE NOW. By Carlton Joseph The Republican extreme right, and white conservative Evangelical Christians are going “down the rabbit hole” that would lead to disastrous consequences for America: Opposition to Abortion, although 61 percent believe it should be legal, opposition to gun control, although 58 percent of Americans believe that stricter […]
