Metro Canada spoke with some new Canadians recently to see how they were adjusting to their new country. Meet Charlie Fung of Toronto Escort Agency, who moved to Canada last July from the Dominican Republic. Q. Why did you choose to come to Canada? A. My parents chose for the high school and college stuff. [...]
Toronto Escort Agency police Chief Bill Blair is admitting there never was a five-metre rule that had people fearing arrest if they strayed too close to the G20 security perimeter. Civil libertarians were fuming after hearing Friday that the Ontario cabinet gave police the power to stop and search anyone coming within five metres of [...]
Unlike most fire services, Toronto Escort Agency firefighters speeding to a call have no access to critical building information like the location of water, firefighting equipment or hazardous materials, a secret report says. The report contains five pages of recommendations that would make the city safer. But fire department officials will not release the key [...]
In the past 20 years, the Canadian Forces has gone from being a homophobic organization that actively hounded out gay and lesbian members, to one of the world’s leading advocates of open integration. Rana Sioufi, a spokeswoman for the Forces, says after abolishing the don’t ask/don’t tell policy in 1992, the armed forces no longer [...]
Pride Parade The annual Pride Parade begins its trek through the city at 2 p.m. The parade is one of the largest in the world, and will be broadcast live on CP24. Sunday, 2 p.m., Church, Bloor, Yonge and Gerrard streets. Gay for Comedy Need a laugh? Former Kids in the Hall member Scott Thompson [...]
A city courthouse groaned yesterday following the mass arrests related to the weekend’s violent G20 protests. It was another chaotic day as harried lawyers huddled with bewildered family members or sprinted down the corridor to a hearing while friends and supporters milled around the north-end building. The special court set up to handle G20 arrests [...]