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MANDEL: High-profile Toronto doctor faces more sex-crime charges

Dr. David Poon's licence to practise has been suspended as Toronto Police continue to comb through electronic devices seized from his home

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During the pandemic, Dr. David Poon was all over the news as he lobbied the Canadian government to reunite couples separated by the border closure.

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Now the suspended Toronto physician is making headlines for very different reasons: he’s just been charged with 28 more sex-crime related offences bringing the total to 69 charges in all as Toronto Police continue to examine the electronic devices seized in a search warrant executed at his Bay St. home late last year.

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Poon, 39, made a brief virtual appearance in court from the Toronto South Detention Centre where he’s been held since his arrest on a second tranche of charges in December 2025.

He was first charged in November with possessing and accessing child pornography.

None of the charges have been tested in court.

Allegations date back to 2009

The new court document lists allegations dating back to 2009 when he was a student at the University of Alberta medical school where he graduated in 2013. Many of the charges allege Poon administered a “stupifying or overpowering” drug, sexually assaulted victims and recorded them.

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There are also two new counts of alleged sexual assault in Edmonton and several of possessing child pornography.

The charges are not believed to be related to his medical practise. When Poon, who was practising psychotherapy in Toronto, was first arrested and released on bail last November, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) imposed restrictions that he only see adult patients.

After 40 more charges were added in December – including six counts of sexual assault, one of sexual assault with a weapon, six of administering drugs to overcome resistance, 18 of voyeurism and five of creating and possessing child pornography – the CPSO suspended his licence.

Also licensed to practise in Saskatchewan, Poon’s certificate of registration was suspended there as well.

Investigation launched in 2025 following a tip from a Google

According to a CBC News report, the investigation into the doctor began last summer after Google tipped off authorities about illicit images allegedly uploaded to a Google Drive account in his name.

The document used by police to successfully convince a judge to authorize a search his home and devices has since been sealed by the court.

Poon was the founder and public spokesman for Faces of Advocacy, appearing in Parliament and on countless media outlets as he fought border closures and travel restrictions separating families during COVID after his girlfriend arriving from Ireland was turned away at Pearson airport and sent back home in April 2020.

They later married four years later.

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According to a 2024 profile in the New York Times, Poon met the Irish nurse while she was on vacation with her family in Toronto in 2017.

Before she flew back for a three-week visit, she told the Times that she really appreciated when Poon pre-emptively sent her a clean police record check.

“I was an avid crime documentary fan,” she told the newspaper. “I didn’t want to end up featured on 60 Minutes.”

Poon next appears in court next month.

mmandel@postmedia.com

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