The criminal cases getting thrown out over police conduct

Plus, extreme heat closing a Toronto daycare and Trump's latest indictment [The Star] First Up [By Manuela Vega] By Manuela Vega Good morning. Here’s the latest on a case tossed over police conduct, extreme heat in Toronto and Donald Trump’s fourth criminal case. DON’T MISS Andrew Francis Wallace/The Star courts [A gun case collapsed due to GTA officers muting their body cameras]( This past spring, a Toronto judge tossed an impaired driving charge because police muted their body-worn-cameras during the 2021 arrest. Now, a gun case in Oshawa has fallen apart after Durhman police testified about doing the same thing in 2022, Betsy Powell reports. [Here’s what we know about the cases](. - Context: [Cases ranging from gun charges to attempted murder have collapsed in recent months over Ontario police conduct](. Reasons have included slow disclosure of evidence, racial profiling, an unwarranted no-knock raid and more. - More: “In my view, the court must disassociate itself from this conduct in the strongest terms, to make clear its disapproval of this conduct in the course of a police investigation,” a Toronto judge wrote about the 2021 arrest. Steve Russell/The Star climate crisis [Temperatures have soared to 40 C in a downtown daycare this summer]( For the second summer in a row, a city-run community centre with a daycare in St. Lawrence has been forced to close during heat waves, Kelly Skjerven writes. This July, it shuttered for four days, putting some parents in the mixed-income neighbourhood in a tough spot. [With a permanent fix still two years away, parents are just having to make-do in the face of extreme heat](. - More: “(The daycare is) doing everything they can and it feels like we’re just being ignored,” mother Stacey Rodas said. “I’m not trying to villainize the city, I want to work with them.” - Word from the city: In a statement to the Star, Toronto’s parks, forestry and recreation department said portable air conditioning units were installed in the daycare along with other fans. However, a local councillor’s office told a parent that a permanent fix likely wouldn’t come this summer or next. - Why it matters: Step aside, global warming. The UN is warning of “global boiling.” [Here’s what extreme heat does to your body](. Alex Brandon/AP Photo United States [Donald Trump has been indicted over 2020 election meddling]( Prosecutors in Georgia have used a statute typically associated with mobsters to charge Trump and 18 allies with scheming to overturn his election loss in the battleground state in 2020 — highlighting ongoing attempts to hold the former president accountable for working to undermine American democracy, The Associated Press reports. A 97-page indictment details dozens of actions to undo Trump’s electoral defeat. [Here’s how the case could affect his bid for the White House](. - More: The indictment describes Trump, his attorney, a former White House chief of staff and a former mayor of New York as members of a “criminal organization” who were part of an “enterprise” that operated in Georgia and other states. - Context: The Georgia indictment comes just two weeks after the Justice Department charged Trump in a wide conspiracy to overturn the election. - Watch for: The defendants will be allowed to voluntarily surrender by noon Aug. 25, said Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who added she plans to ask for a trial date within six months. WHAT ELSE The Greenbelt controversy [overtook Doug Ford’s finance minister’s economic announcement on Monday](. Doug Ford won’t fire the man blamed in the Greenbelt scandal. [But who’s he really protecting?]( This Brampton man called police for help and ended up injured. [He says he then unknowingly signed away his right to file a police complaint](. [An Ontario college has “reinstated” the admission of a group of international students]( after revoking their admissions due to “oversubscription.” Ontario’s public school teachers will hold a strike vote as contract talks drag with the Ford government. [Here’s what we know so far](. What has Toronto Hydro done for climate change? [Mayor Olivia Chow could finally jolt the city-owned utility into action](. Inflation numbers for July are set to be announced this morning. [Economists aren’t ruling out another rate hike from the Bank of Canada](. 👈 That’d be bad news for housing — [22 per cent of Canadian homebuilders cancelled projects in recent months amid high rates](. Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours. [Take a look at how the government did it](. Survey says… [employers and workers both favour a hybrid model over fully remote work](. ICYMI Pexels Photo [The Lazy Girl Job trend is appealing for obvious reasons — and it’s changing how some bosses approach workers.]( CLOSE-UP Bram Janssen/AP Photo UKRAINE: Nina Sytnikova, 76, packs her belongings while being evacuated in Kupyansk on Monday. Ukrainian Red Cross teams continued to respond to evacuation requests from civilians living close to the [northeast frontline where Russia has recently stepped up attacks]( Thank you for reading. You can reach me and the First Up team at [firstup@thestar.ca](mailto:firstup@thestar.ca?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=emailutm_email=6C53B63A8E3FAD70AD4EF13004527437&utm_campaign=frst_195074). I’ll see you back here tomorrow. If you're not enjoying these emails, please tell us how we can make them better by emailing newsletterfeedback@thestar.ca. Or, if you'd prefer, you can unsubscribe from this newsletter by clicking the first link below. 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