A 26-year-old Toronto mother has been charged with leaving children unattended after a passerby at a shopping mall found five youngsters alone in a car Monday evening. Source: TheStar.com – Mother charged as kids left in car
The stabbing confession was made to an undercover police officer posing as a criminal. Source: London Free Press – City & Region – Court told teen confessed to attack
The Toronto Police Services Board has opened the door to a public inquiry that would examine the internal investigation of an alleged rogue drug squad whose members are currently facing criminal charges. Source: globeandmail.com: Probe drug squad, Ontario urged
Members of the Toronto Police Services Board passed a motion Tuesday to welcome a public airing of allegations of police corruption, but it would be years before an inquiry could be held. Source: Police board ‘welcomes’ public airing, but not now
The author of a book about the Robert Baltovich murder case said today that while he has “nothing to hide,” he intends to fight a subpoena ordering him to surrender his source material to Crown prosecutors. Source: TheStar.com – ‘Nothing to hide,’ Baltovich author says
Toronto’s police force knew there was a widespread problem with its drug squads and was grappling with how to restore its integrity, according to a confidential internal report. Link to Police force grappled with how to restore integrity
The opposition leader is admitting he smoked pot as a high school and university student. The revelations are in a column Tory wrote 30 years ago as a student for the Osgoode Hall Law School newspaper. Source: 580 CFRA – News Talk Radio
Maryland Correctional Enterprises has put its 182- page catalog online, reports the Associated Press. Anyone can buy hundreds of items the agency offers for sale to government agencies and Maryland nonprofit organizations. The catalog is at http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/mcem. The products include institutional clothing, bedding, clocks, signs, nd lots of furniture. Nearly half the pages are filled Read more
A groundbreaking new policy under which the country’s largest city police service does not ask suspects about their immigration status will endanger the public, the Canada Border Services Agency says. Source: TheStar.com – Toronto police policy called security threat
A 32-year-old man who was pepper-sprayed by transit officials on a Toronto city bus earlier this month has died in hospital. Source: TheStar.com – Pepper-sprayed man dies