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The violent incidents and menacing texts targeting waste giant GFL

For the last year and a half, the talk of construction sites and Bay Street was about a string of violent incidents targeting GFL, the waste management giant, and GIP, its sister construction company. There was suspected arson, vandalism, and executives’ homes were targeted in shootings in both 2024 and this past March. Earlier this month, police made an arrest in connection with the 2024 shootings: Ilan Philosophe, the founder of a competing company, Astro Excavating Inc.

The Globe’s Robyn Doolittle and Tim Kiladze spent the last year and a half reporting on this, including hours speaking…

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