Ontario Canada January 24 2021 In Southern Ontario’s bloody tow-truck war, Peter Simov is an overlooked victim. Slightly more than a year ago, the 19-year-old aspiring pilot was working a night shift guarding a towing lot in northwest Toronto when he died from a single gunshot to the head. Early police suspicions pointed to suicide, […]
TORONTO Canada Jan 20 2021 — The Ontario government is launching a new, online testing option for individuals seeking to obtain a licence to become a security guard or private investigator. This modern testing option will eliminate the need for applicants to travel to a testing location during the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond. “Expanding to online […]
TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2021 /CNW/ — Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN), the global leader in connected public safety technologies, and its subsidiary Axon Public Safety Canada Inc., today announced that Cancom Security Inc. joined the Axon network by purchasing Axon Body 3 (AB3) cameras and licenses to the digital evidence management solution, Axon Evidence. With over 1,200 security […]
Toronto Canada Jan 7 2021 A security guard has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the Financial District. Police say they were called to York and Wellington streets just before 3:30 p.m. The incident is believed to have occurred at the Strathcona Hotel. Officers found a man in his 20s suffering from multiple stab […]
Langley, B.C Canada January 6 2021 A 51-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with an altercation at the Trinity Western University campus in Langley, B.C., that led to the death of a 31-year-old man. A manslaughter charge was filed Dec. 22 against Jack Hutchinson, who was working as a security guard at […]
Newmarket Canada Dec 18 2020 It wasn’t a murder, jewelry store robbery or even shoplifting. It was merely a couple asked to leave by security enforcing provincial orders deeming the dining area off-limits for consumption. In a free country, where people have Charter rights, was such force necessary? “There were other people in the food […]
Creston Canada December 12 2020 One of the security guards who was hired to enforce the provincial mask mandate at a grocery store in Creston was allegedly assaulted twice on Dec. 1 by two different customers who refused to abide by the rules. “A lady pushed a cart into me and slammed the cart into my […]
Thunder Bay Canada Dec 9 2020 A Thunder Bay man was arrested and charged following reports of an assault outside a drug store on the city’s south side Sunday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Uniform Patrol Branch were dispatched to the Shoppers Drug Mart located at 900 Arthur Street East just after 9 a.m. […]
Toronto Canada Dec 9 2020 Police say two security guards have been charged in the death of a patient at a Toronto hospital. Investigators say security guards working at Toronto General Hospital had a “physical interaction” with a patient on May 11. They say the patient, identified as 43-year-old Danielle Stephanie Warriner, of Toronto, went into […]
Canada October 3 2020 Just before the bomb went off, Prem Chhetri spotted something odd. His job — guarding the perimeter of the Canadian embassy in Kabul — had fine-tuned his senses. And the former Nepalese Gurkha soldier was accustomed to seeing the same woman begging at the same nearby corner every day. She wasn’t […]