Global National: May 2, 2024 | Police recordings offer new insight into Highway 401 wrong-way chase

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Police radio recordings are providing new details about the high-speed pursuit going the wrong way on Highway 401 east of Toronto, killing a baby boy and his grandparents. Mike Drolet explains who else was in the vehicle with the victims; what a senior police officer tried to do just before the moment of impact and the province’s rules on police pursuits.

The biggest pro-Palestinian encampment on a Canadian post-secondary campus is at McGill University, which is now being met by a counter-protest from pro-Israeli demonstrators. Mike Armstrong reports on how the situation is evolving and what Quebec Premier François Legault is calling for.

U.S. authorities and post-secondary schools are struggling to restore order, where pro-Palestinian protesters are refusing to give in. Jackson Proskow reports on the overnight arrests made at UCLA, the mounting frustration at other institutions and the challenge of how to deal with the unrest peacefully.

While Hamas weighs its response to a ceasefire proposal that would trigger a hostage-prisoner swap and pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal will not affect his country’s planned ground offensive into Rafah. Crystal Goomansingh reports on where negotiations stand, the pressure on Netanyahu to de-escalate and where Israeli military vehicles have started to gather.

The Ontario government has ordered INEOS Styrolution to keep its chemical plant in Sarnia closed until the province is satisfied it can operate more safely. As Carolyn Jarvis reports, the order follows numerous complaints from people in neighbouring Aamjiwnaang First Nation, who say they became sick after high levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene were detected in the air.

Carbon emissions in Canada in 2022 were the lowest they have been in 25 years, excluding the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data. Ottawa boasts its climate policies are working, so Mackenzie Gray has a reality check on whether Canada is actually on track to meet its emission reduction targets.

Plus, historians are drawing comparisons between the pro-Palestinian student protests spreading across post-secondary campuses and previous demonstrations against America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Eric Sorensen explores the similarities and differences of these movements.

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28 COMMENTS

  1. Umm. Support for Gaza isn't part of "divergent views." It's a principled call for justice for oppressed peoples. It should be the dominant view at universities, and indeed it will be, since they are only committed to facts, history, and truth. You should try that, Global.

  2. Please let all the Palestinians understand…
    You can't win the war, and win back your land by protests, crying and Handouts.
    The world have fed Palestinians more than half a decade… and the Palestinians are getting weaker and weaker….
    Stand up, go back to Gaza, West bank and fight like a man, a soldiers… and it is the ONLY way that you can win back your land and your country.
    Don't tell us that Israel has US and UK…
    Palestinians, if they are worth it… they will have the whole Arab Nations ( Iran, Egypt etc) to back them up.
    But they, Palestinians… only know how to cry,whine and hand out

  3. The second it becomes a "thing" that police won't pursue you if go the wrong way on a road, every criminal in the country is going to use this trick and see if they can get away with it. No different than kids these days knowing that retail stores prohibit their employee to intervene thieves or robbers, even if they get caught, they know they won't be charged as an adult in our system, the worst would be for them to go to Juvie for a few years and get out with no criminal record, that's why they keep doing what they do. Our county has become so soft and weak these days it's not even funny.

  4. If the Chief of Durham police is like the ones in Toronto..you bet he's going to congratulate the officers for their 'brave and thoughtful actions' and not take any responsibility FOR THE STUPIDITY AND RECKLESSNESS OF THEIR OFFICERS. Cops…glorified, dumb security guards with guns.

  5. This pursuit was a difficult one for sure. Do you try to warn the public with your lights or do you just let him go. Either way there was bound to be a crash. Most police are really fed up with our catch and release system of justice. No wonder we can’t get people to be police anymore! It’s going to get a lot worse before this starts to turn around. Thankfully me and my family don’t live in a crime infested cesspool of a big city.

  6. Durham's finest owns this one ! Don't pay attention to hateful comments just below mine remarks like the one by darryl !?FREE FREE FREE FREE PALESTINE?FREE FREE FREE FREE PALESTINE??????????

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