Tag: Toronto
Fired AlarmForce CEO fighting his ouster
August 7, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
TORONTO—The recently ousted CEO of AlarmForce Industries, one of Canada's largest security companies, said he's planning a legal strategy designed to replace the board members who fired him.“I'm working on getting rid of the existing board,” said Joel Matlin, who also founded the company, based here, 25 years ago. He told Security Systems News that he's working with his legal team to hold a proxy vote that he believes will result in getting a new board in place.His termination as...
Toronto zero-tolerance alarm measure to undergo review
May 3, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
TORONTO—In its fight against a new zero-tolerance false alarm regulation here, the Canadian Security Association scored both “a loss and a win” at a March 30 meeting of a City Council subcommittee, CANASA's executive director JF Champagne told Security System News.
The loss was that, at least for 2011, single family homeowners will not get a break from the city's 2010 zero-tolerance false alarm by-law that would allow them one free false fire alarm before fines of as much as $1,230...
Canadian group leads regulation battle
March 14, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
TORONTO—The Canadian Security Association continues to fight against a zero-tolerance false alarm regulation here, despite a recent decision by a city committee to defer until 2012 consideration of a proposal that would give homeowners a break, allowing them one free false fire alarm annually before fines would kick in.
“We lost the battle for the year, but we sure have not lost the war,” CANASA's executive director JF Champagne told Security System News in February.
He said the...