Parliament’s heritage committee grilled the CEO of Bell over recent job cuts, and his decision to accept bonus money that they say could have saved jobs.

“You have not been able to answer a single one of my questions directly today.”

Great coverage by Reanna Julien:

The Toronto cop accused of stealing from dead people is “not very good at practicing the art of deception,” the Crown said in a closing address at the trial today.

Nonetheless, “he almost pulled this off.”

My latest for Toronto Star:
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🚨NEW STORY🚨Ontario's 450+ police officers suspended with pay have cost taxpayers $134 million over the past 11 years, according to an exhaustive database compiled by my colleague Julie Ireton, CBC. Read our investigation here: cbc.ca/newsinteractiv… #data #ddj

I received this FOI fee estimate from the Vancouver Police Department. It’s ridiculous, but it’s notable because it violates government regulations. You can’t charge more than $30/hr to search for records, but they want to charge up to $122/hr based on police salaries. #cdnfoi 🧵

I filed an FOI to see how many hunger strikes were held in provincial jails last year.

Then, I talked to Dr. Jessica Evans, james ruston, and Jordan House about what that figure means! Turns out, it's likely much higher.

Latest for CTV Toronto: toronto.ctvnews.ca/inmates-in-ont…

On Friday’s Toronto Star A1: A murder conviction overturned because of evidence the jury shouldn’t have heard: Jacques Gallant reports. Stephanie Levitz on the foreign interference inquiry. Emily Fagan on an unusual condo. And a tour of the revamped Rogers Centre: 📸 Richard Lautens

.Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 says Israel targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza ‘systematically, car by car’
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The Toronto cop charged with stealing a luxury watch and credit cards from dead people says he didn’t do it, but admits he misused police databases.

How did a credit card get into his friend’s home? He blames a mishap over sandwiches.

For Toronto Star:
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“We end up allowing people to cycle aimlessly between all of these very expensive public systems, because we don’t address their housing need...They then become the problem of health care or corrections or whatever.”

A GTA church has been sheltering refugees since last summer—in units the city says are illegally built on the Greenbelt. But without it, newcomers say they have few options for support in the suburbs.

Latest with Noor Javed for Toronto Star:
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I'm pretty upset. A *week* before #LJI funding ends, we're told newsrooms need to decide whether to keep reporters on with no guarantee of funding in April. For small newsrooms like IndigiNews, this means 🧵

A cancer “vaccine.” Cigars. Luxury watches.

Two men say they had bought these goods from a Toronto cop before he offered them a luxury watch that prosecutors say he stole from a dead person.

My latest for Toronto Star: thestar.com/news/gta/brand…

On the cover of today’s Saturday Star: the inside details of how Toronto’s most talked-about condo project came undone. Illustration by Ramon Ferreira, photo by Steve Russell and story by me 🏗️ via Toronto Star

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Nearly 2 months after committing to sanction extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank, federal govt. has yet to provide answers on how or when it plans to do so. My latest for Toronto Star:

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Tagged along with Good Night Out Van on a Friday to see their street team in action. It was a hell or a ride to see the extent of debauchery, violence, sexism, selflessness and kindness between strangers unfold on the Granville Strip. Today on The Tyee.
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A Toronto cop 'breached the public’s trust' by stealing two credit cards and a luxury Swiss watch from people whose deaths he was investigating, along having a stolen car for months and misusing police databases, prosecutors say.
My latest for Toronto Star
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I wrote about how the lack of internet access in Canadian prisons is making it nearly impossible for prisoners to pursue postsecondary education.

“They’re supposed to be rehabilitating people,' one inmate's mother told me. “But they’re stifling them.”
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I wrote about an emergency room nurse who volunteered with MSF in Gaza. We discussed civilian suffering and the Israeli army recently attacking a clearly marked MSF building thestar.com/news/canada/th…

The driver in a downtown Toronto crash that killed one and injured several others in 2021 has been sentenced to four years, with a 10-year driving ban.

He was out on bail for driving offenses at the time of the crash, in my report for Toronto Star:

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On Wednesday’s Toronto Star A1: A suspect charged in a series of 1990s sex assaults: Jennifer Pagliaro Wendy Gillis report. Stephanie Levitz on Poilievre’s attacks on the carbon tax. And Emily Fagan on why a hole in the ground is worth more than an East York bungalow (📸 Nick Lachance (he/him)).