| 24 Shades of Blue | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Andy O'Brien, and Axel Villamil |
| Genre | Law enforcement |
| Format | Interview |
| Created by | Toronto Police Service |
| Production | |
| Production | Obie & Ax Inc |
| Publication | |
| Original release | November 2020 |
| Related | |
| Website | www |
24 Shades of Blue is a law enforcement podcast that first aired in November 2020. It is funded by the Toronto Police Service and produced by Obie & Ax Inc.
The Police funding of the podcast was criticised by Toronto politicians in 2023.
24 Shades of Blue It is funded by the Toronto Police Service and produced by Obie & Ax Inc. [1] [2] Production costs exceeded $300,000. [1] Toronto Police Service have editorial control over the podcast's content. [3]
The podcast was launched in November 2020. [3] As of mid February 2023, the podcast had reached 94,500 listeners. [1]
The podcast is presented as a series of interviews and is hosted by Andy O'Brien and Axel Villamil, of the production company Obie & Ax Inc. [1]
Espies include an interview with Black police officer Stacy Clarke. [4]
Former Toronto mayor John Sewell questioned if the city's police needed to spend their money on a podcast. [1] Toronto city councillor Josh Matlow was critical that the production of the podcast was awarded through a non-competitive process. [1]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that receives public funding from the government. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
Hollywood North is a colloquialism used to describe film production industries and/or film locations north of its namesake, Hollywood, California. The term has been applied principally to the film industry in Canada, specifically to the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.
John Howard Tory is a Canadian former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 2004 to 2009.
Amber Dawn MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality, bestselling author of two books, and keynote speaker. MacArthur is the former co-host of BNN's App Central and Bloomberg Brink, G4TechTV's Call for Help, and TWiT's The Social Hour. She was the most followed Canadian television personality on Twitter in 2008. In 2018, she was named DMZ's 30 inspirational women making a difference in tech.
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is a municipal police force in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the primary agency responsible for providing law enforcement and policing services in Toronto. Established in 1834, it was the first local police service created in North America and is one of the oldest police services in the English-speaking world.
Law enforcement in Canada is the responsibility of police services, special constabularies, and civil law enforcement agencies, which are operated by every level of government, some private and Crown corporations, and First Nations. In contrast to the United States or Mexico, and with the exception of the Unité permanente anticorruption in Quebec and the Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia, there are no organizations dedicated exclusively to the investigation of criminal activity in Canada. Criminal investigations are instead conducted by police services, which maintain specialized criminal investigation units in addition to their mandate for emergency response and general community safety.
Terence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful and Maple Man, is a Canadian businessman, investor, journalist, and television personality. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows. These include the business news programmes SqueezePlay and The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, as well as the reality television shows Dragons' Den and Redemption Inc. In 2008, he appeared on Discovery Channel's Project Earth. Since 2009, he has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den.
Josh Matlow is a Canadian politician who has served on the Toronto City Council representing Ward 12 Toronto—St. Paul's since 2010.
Brandon Emmett Crisp was a Canadian teenage boy who disappeared on October 13, 2008, when he ran away from his home in Barrie, Ontario, Canada after his parents took away his Xbox 360 video game console due to failing grades and his excessive playing of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He was last seen alive on a nearby trail.
The Toronto Police Association (TPA), founded in 1944, is a labour organization representing the approximately 5,500 uniformed and 2,500 civilian members of the Toronto Police Service in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. While police officers in Ontario are prohibited by law from forming a union or striking, the TPA fulfills most of the functions of a public-sector union, including collective bargaining contract negotiations with its membership's employer, the Toronto Police Service.
Ana Bailão is a Canadian politician who represented Davenport on Toronto City Council from 2010 until 2022. She was the deputy mayor of Toronto representing Toronto and East York from 2017 to 2022. Bailão announced she intends to run for mayor of Toronto in the 2023 by-election.
Douglas Robert Ford Jr. is a Canadian politician and businessman who has served as the 26th and current premier of Ontario since June 2018 and leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party since March 2018. He represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
The Canadian federal budget for the 2008-2009 fiscal year was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on February 26, 2008.
Canadaland is a Canadian company that operates a news site and a network of podcasts. It was founded by Jesse Brown in 2013. Canadaland has produced podcasts on Canadian media, art and culture, cooking, medicine, and politics. Podcasts include the original Canadaland podcast, Commons,Cool Mules, The White Saviors, and Thunder Bay.
Emmanuel Kabongo is a Canadian actor and producer. Born and raised in Zaire before it became the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kabongo immigrated to Canada with his family in the 1990s. He began his acting career as an extra before achieving recognition for his performance as the lead protagonist in the acclaimed web series Teenagers (2014–2017), for which he earned his first Canadian Screen Award nomination.
A domestic terrorist vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The driver, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, targeted pedestrians, killing 11 and injuring 15, some critically. The incident is the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history.
Tammy Lynn Lamondin-Gagnon was an Ojibwe woman who disappeared in Newmarket, Ontario in 1999. As of 2022, Lamondin-Gagnon's whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
| Features | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History | |||||||
| Geography | |||||||
| Economy | |||||||
| Politics | |||||||
| Public services | |||||||
| Education |
| ||||||
| Culture | |||||||
| Transportation |
| ||||||
