Between 2010 and 2014 the unfounded rate in Waterloo Region sat at 27 per cent – eight per cent higher than the national average at the time. Since then, there’s been a substantial shift in the way Waterloo Regional Police Services handles sexual assault investigations. By 2019, the number had dropped to eight per cent.
Many activists feel as though their voices are being silenced just as they were decades ago, with no progress being made.
On Halloween, the Waterloo Regional Police Services (WRPS) executed a search warrant on Strathcona Crescent in Kitchener, Ont. Police seized 250 guns, 200,000 rounds of ammunition and a non-active grenade from a 57-year-old Kitchener man.
Police, paramedic and court costs keep spiralling upward, as a task force searches for ways tame the wild Waterloo parties.
The Ezra Avenue St. Patrick’s Day booze fests are already the stuff of dubious legend. This year, police will have to deal with legal cannabis, too.
Residents anywhere within the Region’s seven municipalities are being encouraged to subscribe to the digital service.
By TYLER BATTEN According to missingkids.ca over 50,000 children go missing in Canada each year, and I’ve yet to see a single Child Find poster in Kitchener-Waterloo. Local community posting boards are filled with rental ads, used cars, event listings and lost pets but no lost children. Having visited every province in Canada through some of the most remote and rural communities, I’ve come upon towns … Continued
