Grade 11 Don Mills Collegiate Institute student Aaron Anton wanted to line up something to do in the summer when he learned about the Toronto Police Service (TPS) Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI) program. “I decided to give it a shot,” said Anton. “As I went through the interview process,...

Nathaniel Donaldson makes no bones about why he wanted to be a Toronto Police Service (TPS) Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI) participant. “It was the money,” he said at the graduation ceremony on August 26 at the TPS College. “At the beginning, that was all I was thinking about.” After...

Last February, a teenager was fatally shot inside David & Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute in Scarborough. Just three days earlier, Mostafa Eiwazkhani had encountered the student, whom had been an acquaintance since Grade Seven. “We talked for a bit,” the 17-year-old high school graduate said. “I was shocked when I...