On Sunday March 16, 2014, The Toronto Police Service will commemorate its 50th annual Communion Breakfast. I’m fairly certain when a few Toronto police officers got together, in the winter of 1964, and decided to take their sons to Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral followed by breakfast at a local restaurant, they never envisioned this
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