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Article content Baxter, who is president of the Brantford Police Association, immediately begins a three-year term. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Baxter elected Police Association of Ontario president Back to video Outgoing president Bruce Chapman announced his retirement from policing earlier this year. He will be stay with the association as past-president until the end of June. Elections for open positions on the association’s board of directors were held during its 89th annual general meeting, which was attended virtually by executive re...

A former executive with the RACQ says he was fired because his bosses thought he was about to blow the whistle on misconduct.

Wow good thing we don’t have another one of those for a while … oh wait The Exec were able to validate their Covid-related constitutional breaches and raise their own pay at the SGM last Wednesday. The SGM met quorum, with over 100 students showing up. The Exec’s pay rise generated discussion, because the OUSA President’s pay was set to go up by $8000 annually, while ex-officio members such as the Tumuaki of Te Roopu Māori (TRM), and the President of University of Otago Pacific Island Students Association (UOPISA) would only see a pay increase of $250 a year. Cam, a Pasifika student...

Article content After numerous police services across Ontario – including Brantford and Six Nations – said they would not use new powers announced Friday as part of measures to slow the spread of COVID 19, the province walked back the order. Officers will no longer have the right to stop any pedestrian or driver to ask why they’re out or request their home address, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said in a written statement on Saturday evening. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Ontario backs away from new police powers to enforce pandemic laws...

Article content Some residents of a Brantford neighbourhood that was the scene of a three-day standoff as police dealt with a man in crisis say the situation was mishandled. “I understand police are doing their job but I don’t agree with how it started,” said Melissa Cronk, who lives on Grey Street across from where the standoff took place. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Multi-day standoff ends Back to video The standoff ended at about 4 p.m. Wednesday with the 37-year-old man transported to hospital. Grey, between Stanley and Rawdon str...