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Following York Region teachers ; unions sounding the alarm over COVID-19s new and more virulent variants, education workers finally have a vaccination date to look forward to.A new map provided by Esri Canada April 9 shows high risk areas to allow education workers to schedule their vaccine appointments starting April 12. The map is now available after Premier Doug Ford announced April 7 that all education workers in high-risk areas will be able to schedule their appointments.Education workers were already part of the Phase 2 vaccination rollout, currently taking place, however, there wasnt a clear date for them to mark their calendar. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Vaccination for education workers in hot spots also includes areas in Toronto, Peel, Ottawa, Hamilton, Halton and Durham. Additionally, vaccines will be offered to some peop
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The use of force by Halton police was up 16 per cent in 2018, according to an annual report.Halton police submitted the Annual Report on Use of Force to the Halton Regional Police Services Board on Thursday, March 28.In all, 225 use of force reports were submitted in 2018 compared to 190 in 2017 and 164 in 2016. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The 2018 reports are related to 161 incidents, which sometimes involved more than one officer.The number of use of force incidents in 2017 was 118. ARTICLE CON
stanley cup TINUES BELOW The Police Services Act requires all officers to complete a use of force form whenever they use force that falls within the legislated criteria.This data is used to identify individual and group
stanley cup training requirements or to assist the police service with the development of use of force policy and procedures. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Of the 161 use of force incidents the report said 41 25 per cent involved a person experiencing a mental health crisis, an increase of 19 incidents from 2017. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Five of these
stanley puodelis events involved a suspect who was armed with a firearm or replica firearm while 13 events saw officers confront an individual armed with a knife or edged weapon.According to the report there were 84 incidents where officers pointed their firearms during
