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• Toronto Sun, October 9, 2009.

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Rules for serving the public: Don't

By MARK BONOKOSKI
Last Updated: 9th October 2009, 4:47am

Back in March, one of Toronto's unsung heroes got his song sung, winning the first-ever Community Award for Youth Service presented by the Committee of Youth Officers for Ontario, an association of police officers dedicated to combating and preventing youth crime.

It was no small honour.

The winner, as it turned out, was Al Crawford, a recreation specialist with the City of Toronto.

But he was muzzled from talking about it.

His City of Toronto overseers had issued him a gag order, specifically warning him that if he said a word to the media, his job would be on the line.

Why? Well, as I wrote at the time, no one in authority would say, and no one in authority would say exactly who issued the gag order.

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