In a press conference today, Liberal Party Leader and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that his government will spend $26 million to hire up to 200 more provincial police officers, 53 of whom will form part of a beefed up anti-guns task force. The province’s Attorney General will also hire six more crown prosecutors to […]
An 11 year old boy died tragically this weekend, caught in the crossfire of a gang-related gun battle in a north Toronto neighborhood infamous for its poverty and gang violence. Almost before the gunshots had finished echoing off the crime scene, local politicians began twisting this horrific tragedy to their own political gain.
Police acted quickly […]
I just returned from the 17th World Conference on Disaster Management held in Toronto and found it, once again, a very interesting collection of delegates.
My own session on Tuesday afternoon, revealing the very early results of our ongoing research project into behavioural attributes of crisis leaders, was surprisingly well attended for a comparatively dry subject. […]