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Wendy Gillis

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Wendy Gillis

@wendygillis

Toronto Star's crime and police reporter. On leave in 2025. Tips: [email protected] or [email protected] or DM me for Signal info

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Joined November 2009

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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jul 6, 2024
NEW: One of Frank Stronach’s accusers says she reported his alleged crimes against her to Toronto police nearly a decade ago, telling them the billionaire businessman sexually assaulted her when she was 20. She says she never heard back @TorontoStar
‘He was my abductor and rapist, and I feared for my life’: Alleged Frank Stronach victim tells her...
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Aug 24, 2021
The Toronto Police Association has just announced it's opposing the mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations announced today. "The TPA must make every effort to protect all of our members and therefore, does not support this mandatory vaccination announcement or mandatory disclosure."
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Oct 21, 2021
BREAKING: Toronto police officers who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of November will be placed on an indefinite unpaid absence, having "rendered themselves unable to perform their duties," TPS says. News release: torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/5…
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 21, 2018
The @TorontoStar has just named @IreneGentle as the next Editor in Chief. She makes history as the first woman editor in the Star’s 126-year history. Great day for the Star, for women, for journalism.
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 26, 2020
Happening today: Justice Joseph Di Luca will provide his judgment in the trial of off-duty Toronto Const. Michael Theriault and his brother, Christian, accused of aggravated assault and attempting to obstruct justice in the beating of Dafonte Miller.
Judge finds off-duty Toronto cop guilty of assault, but says Dafonte Miller’s beating ‘probably’...
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Mar 29, 2023
NEW and exclusive: A Toronto police officer allegedly failed to investigate a woman’s “repeated pleas” for help about an ex-boyfriend threatening her, dismissing the case as a "he said, she said." Three days later, she was murdered, allegedly by her ex.
A Toronto cop allegedly ignored this woman’s domestic violence report. She was dead three days later
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 26, 2020
BREAKING: Off-duty Toronto police officer Michael Theriault is found GUILTY of assault, not aggravated assault. He is found not guilty of attempting to obstruct justice in connection to the case. His brother, Christian Theriault, found not guilty on both counts.
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 15, 2022
.⁦@DesmondCole⁩: Our police have been gaslighting us for years. Says no one asked for an apology.
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 8, 2020
BREAKING: Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders is resigning effective July 31, according to sources.
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 15, 2022
A person who identified as a member of No Pride in Policing has taken the mic saying that the Black community didn’t ask for an apology. “What we have asked you to do is stop brutalizing us.”
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Nov 30, 2021
NEW: Effective today, 205 Toronto police employees — 117 uniform officers, 88 civilian — are being placed on an unpaid absence for being unvaccinated or for not disclosing their vaccination status, Toronto police says. torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/5…
Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jun 15, 2022
More from Beverly Bains on how Black people didn’t ask for an apology
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
Jan 14, 2021
As Ontario's orders come into effect, some new info: -Police can't stop cars just to enforce stay-at-home order -People aren't compelled to explain why they’re outside -workers don't have to have proof from employer that they're travelling to/from work
Police do not have power to stop drivers to enforce new stay-at-home order, Ontario tells police...
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Wendy Gillis
@wendygillis
May 19, 2020
Replying to @wendygillis
“Terrorism comes in many forms and it’s important to note that it is not restricted to any particular group, religion or ideology.” Early story with Peter Edwards on new terrorism charges laid in death of 24-year-old Ashley Noell Arzaga.
Stabbing attack at North York massage parlour was ‘incel’ terrorism, police say
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