Wendy Gillis
Crime Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
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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Feb 15, 2025 |
thespec.com | Jennifer Pagliaro |Wendy Gillis
Child welfare advocates are renewing their calls for answers and accountability in the death of a child whose remains were found in a Rosedale dumpster, a case one expert calls a “stain” on Ontario’s child protection system.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
thespec.com | Wendy Gillis |Jennifer Pagliaro
A rap at the door summoned the woman to the front entrance of a rooming house in east Toronto. Outside the rundown two-storey home, an empty stroller sat parked by the driveway. A young boy soon toddled up to the door, followed by two curious school-age girls. Standing at the stoop, in the heat of a late June afternoon, was a trio of plain clothes officers from the Toronto police homicide squad. The woman had one question for the detectives at her door.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
hamiltonnews.com | Jennifer Pagliaro |Wendy Gillis
Child welfare advocates are renewing their calls for answers and accountability in the death of a child whose remains were found in a Rosedale dumpster, a case one expert calls a “stain” on Ontario’s child protection system.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
hamiltonnews.com | Wendy Gillis |Jennifer Pagliaro
A rap at the door summoned the woman to the front entrance of a rooming house in east Toronto. Outside the rundown two-storey home, an empty stroller sat parked by the driveway. A young boy soon toddled up to the door, followed by two curious school-age girls. Standing at the stoop, in the heat of a late June afternoon, was a trio of plain clothes officers from the Toronto police homicide squad. The woman had one question for the detectives at her door.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
thespec.com | Wendy Gillis
Two Durham police officers have been criminally charged in connection to a catastrophic police chase the wrong way down Highway 401, a pursuit launched over an LCBO theft that ended in a head-on crash killing four, including an infant and his grandparents. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), said Friday that it has charged Sgt. Richard Flynn and Cst.
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