July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
It was just another 911 call to an apartment building where a tenant was causing a ruckus.
‘Psychiatrists in blue’: How do you train cops to be better social workers?
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Taser Files: What we found in 594 pages of police incident reports
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The call came in just before 8 p.m. – a woman was threatening to kill herself. Police found her with a butcher knife pressed up against her neck.
Anti-revenge porn pioneer finds Canada’s cyberbullying law ‘disturbing’
September 22, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Mary Anne Franks has made a name for herself fighting “revenge porn” – the dissemination of intimate photos of a woman (it’s almost always a woman) without her permission or knowledge – often by an estranged partner.
But she’d really rather you didn’t call it that.
Police and cities face off over pay
Friday, July 6, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Financial showdowns between police and the cities paying them can be nasty. And they’re getting nastier: Across Canada, budgetary games of chicken are playing out between cash-strapped cities and police forces that argue they’re taking on more than they ever have – and need the cash to back it.
The mayor of Peterborough, Ont., has been locked out of two meetings of the police board, on which he sits, after a rare move by council to reject a funding request and slice the force’s budget on its own. Reports this week suggested the board may have asked Ontario’s Civilian Police Commission to remove the mayor entirely.
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