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TORONTO — Toronto police say a man is dead after an evening shooting in the city’s Scarborough neighbourhood. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the area of Kingston and Galloway Roads just after 10:20 p.m. Monday night. Police say they found a man with gunshot wounds who was pronounced dead at the scene. […]

GRASSIE — Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie has cancelled her first scheduled public appearance since announcing over the weekend that she will resign. Crombie, who was chosen as party leader in 2023, decided to step down as soon as a successor is chosen after receiving a weak show of support in a leadership vote at […]

TORONTO — As Toronto’s libraries increasingly find themselves on the front lines of the city’s homelessness and mental health crisis, a program that aims to help some of the most vulnerable people is expanding to more branches. Social and crisis support services are now available in 12 Toronto Public Library locations across the city, in […]

TORONTO — Emergency officials in Toronto say no one was injured when a small plane crashed near a school in the city’s East York area on Monday night. Toronto Fire Chief Jim Jessop posted a photo of the crash scene on social media, which showed the single-engine aircraft in one piece, but angled nose-down on […]

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have placed their hopes for scaling up Canada’s affordable housing stock in Ana Bailão, a former Toronto city councillor. Bailão spent 12 years at Toronto City Hall starting in 2010 and directed a number of affordable housing initiatives there. As a chair of the city’s planning and housing committee, she […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve laid charges against nine people after making arrests at a weekend demonstration in a city park. A rally at Christie Pits Park on Saturday calling for deportations and an end to mass immigration was met by a counter-demonstration, which led to several arrests. Police say some of the participants […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve laid charges against nine people after making arrests at a weekend demonstration in a city park. A rally at Christie Pits Park on Saturday calling for deportations and an end to mass immigration was met by a counter-demonstration, which led to several arrests. Police say some of the participants […]

South Simcoe police say a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a woman who allegedly took her infant daughter to Russia and refused to return despite a family court order. Police say the baby had been living with both parents in Innisfil, just south of Barrie, Ont., when the child abduction was reported […]

Waterloo Regional Police say they have launched a homicide investigation after a man died at a home in Kitchener, Ont. Police say officers responded to a home in the area of Cameron Street North and Weber Street East on Monday at 9:30 a.m. for a well-being check. They say officers located a man inside with […]

Ontario’s education minister is telling licensed daycare providers to immediately prevent the use of parking spaces directly adjacent to child-care facilities, after a toddler was killed when an SUV crashed into a daycare north of Toronto. In a memo to daycares obtained by The Canadian Press, Paul Calandra — who first proposed the measures several […]