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CP24
Jordan Omstead and Tyler Griffin, The Canadian PressTORONTO - Violent attacks on public transit have reached “crisis levels,” the president of a major Canadian transit union said Wednesday, as he called for a national transit safety task force. The task force must include transit agencies from across the country and representatives from all levels of government, said Amalgamated Transit Union Canada national president John Di Nino. “These attacks, not only at the Toronto Transit Commission) but right across the country, are really at a crisis level,” Di Nino said in an interview Wednesday. The call for a task force came after a number of violent attacks targeting workers and riders on the Toronto Transit Commission. On Wednesday, a person was arrested after allegedly chasing two TTC workers with a syringe.
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