Mayor Patrick Brown Weighs in on Auto Theft & Toronto Crime Stoppers Launches Hate Awareness Campaign
RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL:OTTAWA'S SPENDING ON NATIONAL DEFENCE\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by George Smitherman, a former Ontario Liberal Deputy Premier and Health Minister, Cheri Di Novo, former Ontario NDP MPP, Janet Ecker, Former Ontario PC MPP and finance minister.\n\nThis week: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced billions of dollars in national defence spending, Premier Doug Ford wants paper bags at LCBO stores to come back and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre shows his support for Toronto's\xa0Jewish community.\n\nCRIME STOPPERS AND TPS LAUNCH HATE CRIMES AWARENESS CAMPAIGN\n\nLibby Znaimer is now joined by Mark Cousins, Vice Chair of Toronto Crime Stoppers.\n\nMark discusses the launch of the Hate Crime Awareness Campaign alongside the Toronto Police Service. According to Robert Johnson, TPS Deputy Chief, "of the reported hate crimes in 2024 over half are anti-semitic and last month was the highest number of antisemitic occurrences for the past 3 years\n\nBRAMPTON MAYOR PATRICK BROWN ON AUTO-THEFT\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by Patrick Brown, Mayor of Brampton.\n\nMayor Brown weighs in on the results of Project Vector that saw hundreds of stolen vehicles seized by the OPP and other Canadian authorities and whether he feels that enough is being done to curb this kind of rampant theft in Peel Region.\nListen live, weekdays from noon to 1, on Zoomer Radio!