Myron Demkiw Spotted at Rogers Centre Before Game 1
Social media posts appeared to show Toronto’s police and fire chiefs in a private box at rogers centre before Game 1 of the 2025 World Series. The sightings add a sharper focus to who was inside the stadium during major events and what roles top emergency officials were playing there.
Myron Demkiw at Rogers Centre
Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw said his visits are brief and tied to operational oversight during some big events, and police said he does not remain to watch. The force also said the chief routinely attends major events and operational deployments across the city as part of his leadership responsibilities, including large-scale events where significant policing resources are deployed.
A video posted before Game 6 on Oct. 31, 2025, showed Demkiw in several rooms in the stadium, including a private box with prepared food on the counter. Posts on X also appeared to show him meeting concertgoers on Nov. 14, 2024, and arm in arm with Jim Jessop on Oct. 24, 2025.
Jim Jessop and city staff
Toronto Fire Services said Chief Jim Jessop was “was at the stadium,” but it did not have a “specific list of dates” for his visits. Sources familiar with the emergency responders’ operations at the Rogers Centre said Jessop was in a private box during some of the dates in question and at times alongside Joanna Beaven-Desjardins.
City Hall confirmed that Beaven-Desjardins attended the stadium on the dates of four Taylor Swift concerts and for games 6 and 7 of the World Series. The four concerts came before Jessop’s promotion to fire chief, which places her appearances in a different stretch of the city’s event planning than the baseball games.
Questions at City Hall
The Toronto Sun said city representatives had yet to confirm which recent high-profile dates the men worked at the Rogers Centre, and the city declined to answer most questions about why emergency response executives were there. It also declined to say whether the arrangement would have broken any rules or whether those executives would have been eligible for paid duty or overtime.
The Sun said executive-level employees with Toronto Paramedics Services and the city’s emergency management division worked at the Rogers Centre during the World Series and 2024’s Taylor Swift concert series, but at no other point in the last two years. Toronto Police Services and Toronto Fire Services had not confirmed which of their executive-level staff were at the baseball venue and on which dates, leaving the public with a partial account and a long list of unanswered operational questions.
