An Ontario Provincial Police tactical officer looks on from the top hatch of an armoured vehicle during protests against COVID-19 restrictions at the Ambassador Bridge on Feb. 12, 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Canada’s police services are becoming increasingly militarized. This undermines the fundamental aims of policing and fosters public distrust of police.
Chicago Sky’s Rebekah Gardner (right) drives at Minnesota Lynx’s Rachel Banham during second half WNBA preseason basketball action in Toronto on May 13, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
The first WNBA game in Canada was more than just a game — it was about the future of women’s sports.
The practice of gardening is deeply tied to colonialism. Here a woman pushes a cart of flowers at her garden centre in Toronto, May 4, 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
As we approach the start of gardening season, it’s a good time to ask some questions about what to plant and who gets to plant.
Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares celebrates his game-winning goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs on April 29 in Tampa, Fla. It’s the Leafs first playoff series win since 2004.
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Many politicians have survived sex scandals and still held onto their jobs. But news about John Tory’s affair has brought an end to his career as Toronto mayor. Here’s what’s unique about Tory’s case.
Bail hearings are underway for the eight teenage girls charged in the murder of a man in Toronto.
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Eight teen girls are charged in the stabbing death of a homeless man in Toronto. Research shows that jurors tend to respond when the perpetrator of a crime is or appears to be younger.
A woman carries an umbrella outside a protest to defund the police in front of Toronto Police Service headquarters in July 2020. Police budgets have increased, not decreased, since then.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
New research shows police budgets have continued to increase in all major Canadian cities in the aftermath of the defund the police movement.
A new law will erode public oversight into police misconduct. In this July 2021 photo, police are seen clearing a homeless encampment in Toronto.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Upcoming changes to how complaints against Ontario police officers are processed will make it even harder to monitor human rights violations by police.
Toronto Mayor John Tory speaks alongside Ontario premier Doug Ford during a joint news conference in Toronto in June 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
When we visit city streets, shops or malls during the holiday season, is it spending money that we like? Or is it about experiencing our surroundings?
Two fatal shooting incidents at Toronto high schools, 15 years apart, show just how little has been done to address the root cause of violence in schools. Here people protest gun violence in Toronto in March 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ben Singer
To resolve growing violence in schools, policy conversations about gun violence need to include community programs that dismantle systemic barriers and inequities.
Fifteen years after Jordan Manners was killed in a Toronto school, Canada’s largest city is still struggling to curb youth violence.
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Rising business costs and shifts in the market accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic are posing challenges for small retailers along Main Street business areas.
Police remove encampment supporters as they clear the Lamport Stadium Park homeless encampment in Toronto in July 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
The Uber Files leak reveals that the company embarked on a deliberate public relations strategy that involved the media, public officials and academics.
In Toronto, lockdown measures asked residents to remain at home.
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Examining how COVID-19 lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were implemented in Toronto, Johannesburg and Chicago reveals the impact they had on vulnerable communities.
A Toronto woman was set on fire on a TTC bus: police say they are investigating it as a hate-crime.
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Last week, a young woman died after being set fire on a Toronto bus. Police are investigating it as a hate-motivated act. Why is violence against women not treated more often as a hate crime?
2022 marks the first year Pride Toronto events will be hosted in person since the pandemic began.
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Pride Toronto has the opportunity to change its relationship with Indigenous and racialized people.
Chief James Ramer of the Toronto Police Service speaks during a press conference releasing the 2020 race-based data, at police headquarters in Toronto on June 15, 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
The Toronto Police Service chief apologized to the public for the findings of an investigation that demonstrated the Toronto police’s excessive use of force on racialized residents.
Senior Lecturer – Creative Intelligence | Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation & Senior Lecturer – Accounting | UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney