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Sexual-harassment tribunal delayed again after key witness Ron Taverner suffers concussion
The final stages of a tribunal examining allegations of sexual harassment within the Toronto Police Service have been delayed after a key witness, Superintendent Ron Taverner, suffered a concussion.
Supt. Taverner was set to testify in the five-year-old human-rights case Tuesday, however the Toronto hearing was told the senior officer had suffered a fall earlier this month and would be unable to appear because of a head injury.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has been probing allegations aired by Toronto police Constable Heather McWilliam since 2014. She alleges she suffered sexual harassment and a toxic work environment at Toronto Police Service’s 23 Division, a precinct in the city’s northwest that Supt. Taverner, 73, has run for nearly two decades.
Constable McWilliam alleges that Supt. Taverner discouraged her from going public with her complaints.
A long-serving police commander and friend of Premier Doug Ford, Supt. Taverner was a pivotal figure in an unrelated controversy that erupted last winter.
In November, he was appointed commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police by the Progressive Conservative government before allegations of cronyism ultimately forced him to withdraw his name.
Supt. Taverner returned to the Toronto Police Service where he has worked since 1967. He continued to preside over the city’s northwest precincts until he went on a medical leave last week.
A sudden accident left Supt. Taverner with concussion symptoms that are "consistent with somebody who is not capable of answering questions, necessarily, or recalling things,” David Greenberg, the police commander’s doctor, told the rights tribunal on Tuesday.
Testifying by speakerphone, he said that no one can say when his patient might be able to safely appear before the tribunal.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has powers to order systemic changes to the workplaces it reviews in the course of complaints it considers.
Sexual-harassment tribunal delayed again after key witness Ron Taverner suffers concussion
The final stages of a tribunal examining allegations of sexual harassment within the Toronto Police Service have been delayed after a key witness, Superintendent Ron Taverner, suffered a concussion.
Supt. Taverner was set to testify in the five-year-old human-rights case Tuesday, however the Toronto hearing was told the senior officer had suffered a fall earlier this month and would be unable to appear because of a head injury.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has been probing allegations aired by Toronto police Constable Heather McWilliam since 2014. She alleges she suffered sexual harassment and a toxic work environment at Toronto Police Service’s 23 Division, a precinct in the city’s northwest that Supt. Taverner, 73, has run for nearly two decades.
Constable McWilliam alleges that Supt. Taverner discouraged her from going public with her complaints.
A long-serving police commander and friend of Premier Doug Ford, Supt. Taverner was a pivotal figure in an unrelated controversy that erupted last winter.
In November, he was appointed commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police by the Progressive Conservative government before allegations of cronyism ultimately forced him to withdraw his name.
Supt. Taverner returned to the Toronto Police Service where he has worked since 1967. He continued to preside over the city’s northwest precincts until he went on a medical leave last week.
A sudden accident left Supt. Taverner with concussion symptoms that are "consistent with somebody who is not capable of answering questions, necessarily, or recalling things,” David Greenberg, the police commander’s doctor, told the rights tribunal on Tuesday.
Testifying by speakerphone, he said that no one can say when his patient might be able to safely appear before the tribunal.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has powers to order systemic changes to the workplaces it reviews in the course of complaints it considers.
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