Sonya Shikhman

In a recent article titled The work does not stop once the handcuffs are applied’: Judge tosses sex assault case, slams ‘terminal’ Toronto police delays Toronto Star Courts and Justice Reporter, Jacques Gallant, drew attention to the increasingly common disclosure delays currently plaguing Toronto’s court system. In the case described by Gallant, Justice Waby of […]

In July 2021, Detective Constable Jeffrey Northrip died after being struck by Umar Zameer’s vehicle in a public parking lot. Northrup and his partner, both in plainclothes, rushed the vehicle while investigating a stabbing that had taken place nearby. The day after Northrup’s death, then-chief of Toronto Police, James Ramer, called the incident a “deliberate” […]