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Sparked Task Force: The police shootings of Michael Wade Lawson, top left, in Mississauga last December and Lester Donaldson in Toronto last August, sparked the formation of the Ontario Race Relations and Policing Task Force headed by Clare Lewis, right
Sparked Task Force: The police shootings of Michael Wade Lawson, top left, in Mississauga last December and Lester Donaldson in Toronto last August, sparked the formation of the Ontario Race Relations and Policing Task Force headed by Clare Lewis, right

Sparked Task Force: The police shootings of Michael Wade Lawson, top left, in Mississauga last December and Lester Donaldson in Toronto last August, sparked the formation of the Ontario Race Relations and Policing Task Force headed by Clare Lewis, right

DateApril 4, 1989
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Task finished: Clare Lewis, head of the Race Relations and Policing Task Force, presents its report to Solicitor-General Joan Smith at Queen's Park today
Task finished: Clare Lewis, head of the Race Relations and Policing Task Force, presents its report to Solicitor-General Joan Smith at Queen's Park today
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Policing Panel: Chairperson Clare Lewis yesterday discusses details of the interim report of his provincial task force on race relations and policing
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The Metro police shooting of Lester Donaldson sparked a 1988 protest in Toronto
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Policing study: A task force has recommended that Ontario police forces reflect the visible minority make-up of their communities
Policing study: A task force has recommended that Ontario police forces reflect the visible minority make-up of their communities
4/11/1989
Member of task force investigating vandalism in the City of Mississauga, Jim Kaakee holds a poster designed for the task force to help combat vandals who cost residents $1 million last year
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More housing through easier mortgages is the goal of the federal task force on the residential mortgage market, set up last August by Robert Andras, r(...)
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Former chiefs: Jack Ackroyd, left, and Harold Adamson are credited for taking the first steps to improve relations between Metro police and minorities when they headed the force
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1/2/1983
Body found: A Metro police Emergency Task Force unit and other police vehicles block a road to the Humber River, near the thick underbrush where two boys found the body of Alison Parrott last night
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Dale Richmond: Metro's chief administrative officer headed the task force that drew up a report calling for a dramatic overhaul of property taxes in Metro
Dale Richmond: Metro's chief administrative officer headed the task force that drew up a report calling for a dramatic overhaul of property taxes in Metro
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Blunt words: Toronto lawyer Marilou McPhedran, who headed a task force on sexual abuse of patients, tells the College of Nurses this week it, too, must change its procedures dealing with the issue
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5/6/1992
Hijacked streetcar: Members of the Metro police Emergency Task Force last night used tear gas to subdue a man who had commandeered a TTC streetcar
Hijacked streetcar: Members of the Metro police Emergency Task Force last night used tear gas to subdue a man who had commandeered a TTC streetcar
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Sgt. Al Noseworthy of Emergency Task Force on way to shooting scene
Sgt. Al Noseworthy of Emergency Task Force on way to shooting scene
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