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A retired police detective involved in the arrest of the husband of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories, says he was disturbed by her reaction 20 years ago when he said he was going to charge her husband for sexually assaulting her daughter

The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro is alleging that she was sexually abused by the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, whom Munro remained with because she “loved him too much” to leave

Disturbing allegations of police collusion come to light after Umar Zameer’s acquittal in officer’s death

At the University of Toronto, student protesters continue to occupy King’s College Circle. They have been camping there since May 2 to draw attention to the atrocities of the war in Gaza. University administrators have recently served a trespass notice to student groups and sought a court injunction to authorize…

Widespread perjury among police is well documented. Obfuscating has become a routine part of policing

Women’s sport is gaining much-deserved attention with the FIFA Women’s World Cup in full swing. In a less publicized development, news broke in early July that a group of investors had purchased the seven-team Premier Hockey Federation (PHF).

Three events have recently marked a powerful inflection point in Canadian journalism.

In 2021 and 2022, the Hidden Racial Profiling Project (HRPP) at Western University’s Faculty of Law helped the Toronto Star identify more than 600 court decisions from the past decade that found Canadian police violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when dealing with the public.