Toronto police may end mobile crisis intervention team program: internal memo Mobile crisis intervention teams see officers partnered with nurses responding to calls for people in emotional distress.

Toronto police have quietly told members and partners they may end a 25-year program aimed at better addressing mental health calls www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

“Articulating to a manager information that gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that a detained youth possesses contraband, or that a strip search is otherwise necessary, and securing the manager’s approval, is likely to be sufficient.”

“A front line youth justice worker, faced with an issue involving a youth in detention, should be able to determine from these reasons the requirements for a constitutionally compliant strip search going forward..."

“It is striking how little thought has apparently been given to the routine, reflexive nature of these searches and the triggers for them," Justice Philip Campbell wrote of the government in his decision, finding reforms were needed to comply with the charter

Routine strip searches of girls in provincial custody ruled unconstitutional by Superior court judge The decision comes after lawyers for four of the girls charged in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee challenged their treatment in custody.

A Superior court judge has ruled that not only was the charter rights of the girls violated when they were made to strip completely naked, but the provincial government's policy to allow routine strip searches is unreasonable www.thestar.com/news/gta/rou...

We need a Toronto-specific word for the feeling when your TTC route comes back into regular service. The relief I felt when the worker directed me to the streetcar platform at Spadina and cheerfully told riders “no more buses!”

Didn’t have Argo or Come From Away on my bingo card but I’m here for it.

What happened during a wrong-way police pursuit on Highway 401? Video, audio tell the story of the dramatic moments before fatal crash The Star compiled video, emergency dispatch audio, photos and internal reports to piece together what happened ahead of crash that killed four.

We pieced together emergency services' audio, internal reports and citizen video to try to understand what happened in the fatal 401 crash last year that took the life of an infant boy and his grandparents www.thestar.com/interactives...

Highway 401 wrong-way chase results in criminal charges for two Durham police officers The charges come after a complex investigation by the civilian watchdog into the actions of the Durham regional police officers.

#Breaking: Highway 401 wrong-way chase results in criminal charges for two Durham police officers