TORONTO Toronto's police chief
has tapped a retired judge who has led major public inquiries to take a rare,
broad look at police practices following a public outcry over the fatal shooting
of an 18-year-old.
Bill Blair said Monday he has asked Dennis O'Connor to conduct a review he called "extraordinary" in its scope. It follows not just the case of Sammy Yatim, who died last month after being shot by police on an empty streetcar, but several other fatal police shootings in recent years.
"I believe that the public concern with respect to this matter and issues arising and concerns about our policies and our procedures, the training of our officers and the equipment that they use requires that I seek the help of Justice O'Connor," Blair said at a news conference.
Hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice for Yatim's death, which was captured on surveillance and cellphone videos. Nine shots can be heard on the videos following shouts for Yatim to drop a knife. The final six appear to come after Yatim had already fallen to the floor of the streetcar.
A review by the chief of police is mandated under the Police Services Act in Yatim's death because the Special Investigations Unit is involved, but O'Connor's review will look beyond his case, and will include an international review of established best practices, Blair said.
The last time a Toronto police chief asked for outside help to conduct a similar review was in 2001, when Julian Fantino retained Justice George Ferguson to conduct a review of police misconduct following allegations of corruption in its drug squad.
Under the Police Services Act, the review must be completed and reported to the police services board within 30 days of the SIU completing its investigation. Blair said the professional standards branch will separately look into the conduct of the officer at the centre of the Yatim shooting.
Ontario's ombudsman has also launched an investigation, probing what kind of direction the provincial government provides to police for defusing conflict situations.
“My phone bills are like, oh my goodness,” added Sheets, a piano teacher who also works in retail.you need to perform we have every best replacement parts for iphone 5 at competitive prices. Her last bill was $150, due to extra charges for texting while in Michigan. Her U.S. friends with Verizon come to Windsor and text at no extra charge, she said, expressing hope that if Verizon comes to Canada it would end U.S. roaming charges and being erroneously hit with U.S. roaming charges for placing a call from downtown Windsor. “We cross over all the time, so it would be nice if Verizon came here.”
The Big Three firms have mounted a massive co-ordinated campaign to try to erase that possibility, charging that foreign players like Verizon have been given preferential treatment by the Stephen Harper government intent on luring a fourth big firm to set up in Canada. They say the rules for a auction of high-end wireless spectrum in September are rigged in foreign firms’ favour, because they can bid on two of the four blocks of spectrum but Canadian firms can bid on just one. The rules also say the Big Three Canadian firms can’t buy up struggling upstarts like Wind and Mobilicity, but foreign firms like Verizon can. And a new firm would also be allowed to build its business while using infrastructure owned by existing firms.The cases for iphone 5 remains the most popular smartphone phone on the market.
“We reiterate that we welcome competition with foreign entities of any size, as long as a level playing field is in place,” the board members of the Big Three wrote in a letter last month to Harper. But Harper has remained steadfast that he wants to see more competition in the industry and cheaper mobile phone rates.
“While I appreciate some companies have interests that are very important, our government’s first priority is the wider Canadian public and Canadian consumers and we are convinced this is where they want to see us go,” he said in New Brunswick Friday.
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union president David Coles, who represents workers in the industry, said it’s “nonsense, it’s not based on fact, it’s spin,” that bringing in Verizon will result in lower rates. He’s worried about lost jobs, an attack on Canadian companies in favour of multinational corporations and Canadian taxpayers essentially subsidizing Verizon coming to Canada.
“It’s about votes in the 905,” said Coles, who believes Harper is currying favour with voters in the GTA frustrated with mobile rates they believe are too high. But neither of Harper’s claims – that Canada needs competition and it’s rates are high – are fact based, he said.
A study done earlier this year for the CRTC showed that Canada’s rates are generally lower than rates in the U.S., though they were in many cases higher than countries like the U.K., France and Australia. But Iain Grant, an analyst with the Seaboard Group, a Montreal-based telecommunications consulting firm, said Canada’s newfound middle-of-the-pack pricing only comes as the result of the Canadian government changing the rules to encourage foreign players to enter the marketplace.
In 2007, he said, Canada had rates that were among the highest in the world,Mobile Fun sell a huge range of best samsung cases, and when it came to the number of people using cellphones, we were being beaten by nearly every country, “including Turkey.” Canadians were being smart, said Grant, because all the high prices and extra charges for roaming, voicemail, caller I.D. and system access fees made owning a cellphone unaffordable for many.
So Canada began changing the rules to encourage more competition. And out of that, companies like Wind and Mobilicity made moves to set up in Canada. But in the meantime, the Big Three “rolled up their sleeves” and created new brands with better prices – companies like Fido, Koodo and Solo. With all these low-cost players now in the market, companies like Wind and Mobilicity had a hard time establishing themselves, which is why they’re struggling and available to firms like Verizon to buy, Grant said.
He said the big Canadian firms may be better nowadays, but memories can last a long time. “And they’ve been stinkers over the last 10 to 15 years.” So Harper can either side with lowering consumer prices “or be seen to be beholding to the fat cats who most Canadians do not think of as our friends.”
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Bill Blair said Monday he has asked Dennis O'Connor to conduct a review he called "extraordinary" in its scope. It follows not just the case of Sammy Yatim, who died last month after being shot by police on an empty streetcar, but several other fatal police shootings in recent years.
"I believe that the public concern with respect to this matter and issues arising and concerns about our policies and our procedures, the training of our officers and the equipment that they use requires that I seek the help of Justice O'Connor," Blair said at a news conference.
Hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice for Yatim's death, which was captured on surveillance and cellphone videos. Nine shots can be heard on the videos following shouts for Yatim to drop a knife. The final six appear to come after Yatim had already fallen to the floor of the streetcar.
A review by the chief of police is mandated under the Police Services Act in Yatim's death because the Special Investigations Unit is involved, but O'Connor's review will look beyond his case, and will include an international review of established best practices, Blair said.
The last time a Toronto police chief asked for outside help to conduct a similar review was in 2001, when Julian Fantino retained Justice George Ferguson to conduct a review of police misconduct following allegations of corruption in its drug squad.
Under the Police Services Act, the review must be completed and reported to the police services board within 30 days of the SIU completing its investigation. Blair said the professional standards branch will separately look into the conduct of the officer at the centre of the Yatim shooting.
Ontario's ombudsman has also launched an investigation, probing what kind of direction the provincial government provides to police for defusing conflict situations.
“My phone bills are like, oh my goodness,” added Sheets, a piano teacher who also works in retail.you need to perform we have every best replacement parts for iphone 5 at competitive prices. Her last bill was $150, due to extra charges for texting while in Michigan. Her U.S. friends with Verizon come to Windsor and text at no extra charge, she said, expressing hope that if Verizon comes to Canada it would end U.S. roaming charges and being erroneously hit with U.S. roaming charges for placing a call from downtown Windsor. “We cross over all the time, so it would be nice if Verizon came here.”
The Big Three firms have mounted a massive co-ordinated campaign to try to erase that possibility, charging that foreign players like Verizon have been given preferential treatment by the Stephen Harper government intent on luring a fourth big firm to set up in Canada. They say the rules for a auction of high-end wireless spectrum in September are rigged in foreign firms’ favour, because they can bid on two of the four blocks of spectrum but Canadian firms can bid on just one. The rules also say the Big Three Canadian firms can’t buy up struggling upstarts like Wind and Mobilicity, but foreign firms like Verizon can. And a new firm would also be allowed to build its business while using infrastructure owned by existing firms.The cases for iphone 5 remains the most popular smartphone phone on the market.
“We reiterate that we welcome competition with foreign entities of any size, as long as a level playing field is in place,” the board members of the Big Three wrote in a letter last month to Harper. But Harper has remained steadfast that he wants to see more competition in the industry and cheaper mobile phone rates.
“While I appreciate some companies have interests that are very important, our government’s first priority is the wider Canadian public and Canadian consumers and we are convinced this is where they want to see us go,” he said in New Brunswick Friday.
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union president David Coles, who represents workers in the industry, said it’s “nonsense, it’s not based on fact, it’s spin,” that bringing in Verizon will result in lower rates. He’s worried about lost jobs, an attack on Canadian companies in favour of multinational corporations and Canadian taxpayers essentially subsidizing Verizon coming to Canada.
“It’s about votes in the 905,” said Coles, who believes Harper is currying favour with voters in the GTA frustrated with mobile rates they believe are too high. But neither of Harper’s claims – that Canada needs competition and it’s rates are high – are fact based, he said.
A study done earlier this year for the CRTC showed that Canada’s rates are generally lower than rates in the U.S., though they were in many cases higher than countries like the U.K., France and Australia. But Iain Grant, an analyst with the Seaboard Group, a Montreal-based telecommunications consulting firm, said Canada’s newfound middle-of-the-pack pricing only comes as the result of the Canadian government changing the rules to encourage foreign players to enter the marketplace.
In 2007, he said, Canada had rates that were among the highest in the world,Mobile Fun sell a huge range of best samsung cases, and when it came to the number of people using cellphones, we were being beaten by nearly every country, “including Turkey.” Canadians were being smart, said Grant, because all the high prices and extra charges for roaming, voicemail, caller I.D. and system access fees made owning a cellphone unaffordable for many.
So Canada began changing the rules to encourage more competition. And out of that, companies like Wind and Mobilicity made moves to set up in Canada. But in the meantime, the Big Three “rolled up their sleeves” and created new brands with better prices – companies like Fido, Koodo and Solo. With all these low-cost players now in the market, companies like Wind and Mobilicity had a hard time establishing themselves, which is why they’re struggling and available to firms like Verizon to buy, Grant said.
He said the big Canadian firms may be better nowadays, but memories can last a long time. “And they’ve been stinkers over the last 10 to 15 years.” So Harper can either side with lowering consumer prices “or be seen to be beholding to the fat cats who most Canadians do not think of as our friends.”
Click on their website www.wantbuyletbuy.com/Supply-cases-for-ipad-mini_c238.
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