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Newsstand: July 23, 2009

By Karen Aagaard (Guest Contributor)

Police condemned for profiling of letter carrier (Toronto Star): “Ron Phipps admits he was criss-crossing Vernham Ave. the day he was stopped by police in the Bridle Path. He was also wearing a Canada Post coat and carrying two mailbags while filling in for the regular letter carrier.”
Toronto family reels after three drowning deaths (CTV): “After three consecutive days of devastating news, a Toronto father is struggling to help his two sons cope with the loss of their mother and two sisters, who drowned in a hotel pool while vacationing in an eastern Ontario resort town.”
Building a winner in midst of failure (Toronto Star): “As failures go, this is one of the most successful in the city’s history. Despite the fact the company behind Toronto Life Square has gone into receivership, the project is by all accounts doing just fine, thank you very much.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Toronto Life Square Is Broke and Life-Less.]
City to detail refunds for parks programs (National Post): “Toronto will release more details today of plans to reimburse city residents who paid for summer parks and recreation programs that were cancelled by the month-long strike by civic workers.” [More coverage in CityNews.]
Service Ontario centres to consolidate health card, licence, vehicle registration (CP24): “Ontario residents will no longer have to travel as far and line up as long to get their hands on a health card or driver’s licence as the province significantly increases the locations which provide the services.”
Giorgio in heap of trouble (Toronto Sun): “Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti braved a confrontation with pickets yesterday to take out his residents’ trash. Mammoliti—once president of a CUPE local that represented public housing employees—worked yesterday with private contractors hired by the Emery Village BIA to cut the city’s grass, and clean up litter and illegally dumped garbage in the Weston Rd.-Sheppard Ave. area.”

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  • http://www.twitter.com/vicdezen Vic De Zen

    FTA Toronto Star article:

    His own son is now 14. “I would like to be able to say, `If you have trouble, you can turn to a police officer.’ But I can’t say that.”

    This should be a wake-up call to the police force. This is not they type of image that will encourage the public to step forward when they need help from the police, let alone aid investigations.

  • http://www.torontoist.com David Topping

    Christopher Hume today:

    Despite the fact the company behind Toronto Life Square has gone into receivership, the project is by all accounts doing just fine, thank you very much.

    Christopher Hume in January 2008:

    It looms over one of the city’s most important intersections with all the charm of a high-security prison. Big, bulky, busy and boring to the last rivet, it is a building untouched by architecture, or any other civic concern for that matter. If this weren’t injury enough, the insult lies in the fact that the complex was built on prime real estate expropriated by the city back in the late 1990s for the purpose of revitalizing the neighbourhood. But even before this galactic coal-carrier is finally finished later this year, it’s clear it will add little to the area, except its sheer bulk.

    It’s weird, because it’s not quite an about face—his article today talks about more Toronto Life Square’s viability as a money-maker than its qualities as a building—but it’s still a weird article for Hume of all people to be writing.

  • http://undefined Vincent Clement

    Ah, the Human Rights Tribunal, where the accused has to prove their innocence. It’s not okay to ask a letter carrier to verify their identity, but it’s okay to be looking for a white eastern-european male. No profiling there, right? Political correctness run amok.

  • http://undefined Robis

    Well there’s a pretty twisted interpretation of the facts that have been presented to us. The officer was looking for a suspect that fit a particular description–i.e., a white Eastern-European male. Note that he wasn’t driving around looking for white Eastern-European males that may be committing crimes. No, he was looking for a particular man who fit that description. That is completely different than thinking someone is suspicious simply because he is black–especially when that person is doing something that is not only legitimate but explains his presence.
    Further, the officer did not just ask Phipps to verify his identity. He made him go around and have others verify his identity even after he verified it himself.
    Really, Vincent, just how obtuse (read: freakin’ stupid) do you have to be not to see the differences between the two?