Tuesday 3 June 2008 16:17hrs

Today is a perfect day to go fishing.

 
I cast my line at the Toronto Police Services Public Information office.  I call and ask them if there’s any new public information ready for release regarding the fire of February 20th. 

The Constable at the other end of the phone sounds cagey. He took my name and phone number, and said he’d get back to me.   After about half an hour of waiting, I called Det. Marcel Chaisson of 14 Division Criminal Investigative Bureau.  

Det. Chaisson was cagy.  He said that the investigation was still open, and that he couldn’t divulge any information, as it was all confidential of course.

At that point, I wondered aloud if the investigation had progressed past the point it was at the last time I spoke to him.  Here he sounded optimistic and indicated that things had indeed progressed.  He indicated that it was his plan to contact the Ontario Fire Marshall’s office within two weeks.

Reading between the lines, it sounded as though Det. Marcel Chaisson was saying that he was just about ready to get together with the Fire Marshall and begin consolidating information.

I wondered out loud whether this meant that the investigation was through with information gathering stage, as I had recently developed some new information from one of the sources he’d previously described as  “police unfriendly.”

Here Det. Chaisson sensed me folding up my papers and preparing to leave.  He quickly dissuaded me from the notion that he wasn’t interested in hearing what I had to say.  He wanted to know what the new information was.

So I told him about the things redacted had said to redacted.