Tuesday 3 June 2008 16:17hrs

Det. Sgt Chaisson did not scoff at anything I relayed to him, except the bit redacted mentioned about the Fire Inspector covering up the results of the investigation.

In fact, Det. Chaisson said that he was inclined to believe that most of what redacted had said, was true.  The way the policeman said it, it sounded as though he was telling me that his information matched mine.

This meant that redacted and redacted had indeed been busted by redacted.  This nicely explained why redacted was for sale.  redacted and redacted were splitsville.

Det. Chaisson also suggested that the fallout of this was that redacted and redacted weren’t as close as before.

 This also explained my conversation with a clerk at redacted, who said that redacted had been in to redacted asking about redacted.  Previously, I had been unable to understand what her interest would be.  But now it seems clear.  She was researching the competition.  

Det. Chaisson also suggested that someone in redacted family was the owner of the part of the building that redacted lives in.  Since she lives near the redacted, that someone is probably redacted. 

Det. Chaisson and I also spoke about my film, and its original title, redacted.

Chaisson indicated that he thought my chances of getting redacted to talk about specifics were low.

I tell him that after this, I plan on going back to minding my own business.  But even I don’t believe it as I say the words.

Chaisson is diplomatic.  He says that he found that if people could tell the story of their lives at the corner of Queen and Bathurst, there would be lively stories to tell.

Det. Chaisson promises to call back. I can’t wait.

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.