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The Canadian PressViolent 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. "We're seeing operator assaults, violence against transit workers, and now our riders at an alarming rate across this country." In addition to the cases in Toronto, Di Nino also pointed to recent reports in Edmonton of bus drivers threatened at gunpoint.
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