The Toronto Police Service will not participate in this year's Pride parade, says Chief Mark Saunders, a move that comes a month after Pride Toronto voted to ban uniformed officers from the event. To enable those differences to be addressed, I have decided the Toronto Police Service will not participate, this year, in the Pride parade," Saunders said in a statement on Friday. Chief Mark Saunders says Toronto police won't participate in Pride parade1:07The decision to remove officers from the parade doesn't sit well with Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association. (Mark Blinch/Canadian Press)The demands came from Black Lives Matter Toronto, which briefly halted the Pride parade in July 2016. The organization presented Pride Toronto's executive director with a list of demands, which also included a commitment to increase diversity in hiring at Pride Toronto.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2017 14:17 UTC