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The recommendations touch on issues such as officer training, peer intervention and mental health supports family members of those killed or seriously injured by police.

Closing submissions have begun at a coroner's inquest into the death of a teen who was shot by a Toronto police officer on an empty streetcar more than a decade ago.

A former Toronto police officer who shot a teen on an empty streetcar more than a decade ago is taking the stand for a second day at a coroner's inquest.

A former Toronto police officer who shot a teen on an empty streetcar told a coroner's inquest today that having a stun gun would have "changed everything."

Sammy Yatim's family says there should be resources to help people like them cope with their loss, noting they are still struggling to come to terms with his death.

A coroner's inquest for Sammy Yatim, a Toronto teen who was shot by a police officer on an empty streetcar in 2013, is now set to begin next month.

Documents show that Correctional Service Canada stopped Paul Bernardo from having his lawyer make a statement to the media as controversy swirled around his prison transfer.

Ten years after her son was fatally shot by police on an empty Toronto streetcar, Sammy Yatim's mother is still fighting for justice.

The death of George Floyd has triggered a waterfall of questions about the use of force by law enforcement — the method of restraint used on Floyd being one of them.

The trial of a Toronto police officer charged in the shooting death of a teen on an empty streetcar is set to continue today with testimony from witnesses brought by the Crown.

Jury selection begins Wednesday in the second degree murder trial of Toronto police officer James Forcillo who is accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Sammy Yatim.

Newly released video provides a more complete picture of what led up to the shooting of Sammy Yatim at the hands of a police officer on a Toronto streetcar in July 2013.

A Toronto police officer's fatal shooting of a teen on an empty streetcar two years ago was neither necessary, nor reasonable, a Crown prosecutor told a jury Tuesday as he described the graphic details of Sammy Yatim's death.

The sound of nine loud gunshots shattered the quiet of a Toronto courtroom Thursday as a jury heard for the first time audio of the last moments of Sammy Yatim's life.

The driver of a Toronto streetcar where a teen was gunned down by police said Tuesday that he was frightened in the moments before officers arrived to deal with reports of a young man with a knife.

The trial of a Toronto police officer charged in the shooting death of a teen on an empty streetcar is set to resume today.

A Toronto police officer on trial for gunning down a teen on an empty streetcar was following his training and deserves an acquittal, his lawyer argued Tuesday.

A pilot project that equipped around 100 Toronto police officers with body-worn cameras over the past year has ended and a review of the program has begun.

The fate of a Toronto police officer is now in the hands of a jury that will decide whether he ignored other options and acted as "a hothead and a bully" when he gunned down a teen on an empty streetcar, or whether he pulled the trigger in self-defence.

A jury has found Toronto police officer James Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the fatal shooting of Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar in July 2013. He was found not guilty on a charge of second-degree murder.