York Region
A Durham Region police deputy chief will retire after the police board said Monday that an investigation by a watchdog agency found he committed misconduct by using a “racially inappropriate” term. The Durham Regional Police Service Board said it has agreed with deputy chief Chris Kirkpatrick that their “employment relationship be concluded.” In a statement […]
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wants the land from the city’s islands back. The mayor says the Ontario government should return lands it recently expropriated from the city through new legislation as it pushed an expansion to allow jets to land and take off from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. On Friday, federal Transportation […]
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is appalled that two locations of a Jewish-owned bakery chain, places he called “fixtures of Toronto’s Jewish community,” were damaged over the weekend. Carney said in a social media post that Jewish Canadians should be able to “live, work and worship free from fear, intimidation and hate,” and his […]
TORONTO — The U.S. consulate in Toronto was shot at early Monday morning in the second such incident this year, prompting a brief high-speed police chase of the suspect vehicle before the pursuit was called off for safety reasons. No injuries were reported but Toronto police and Mayor Olivia Chow called it a brazen attack […]
A Durham Regional police deputy chief will retire after the police board says an investigation by a watchdog agency found he committed misconduct. The Durham Regional Police Service Board says it has agreed with deputy chief Chris Kirkpatrick that “their employment relationship be concluded.” In a statement posted on social media this morning, the board […]
The Gordie Howe International Bridge has opened to motorists after months of controversy over financial aspects of the project. Officials announced in a post on social media that the Howe family crossed first, in honour of the bridge’s Canadian-American hockey namesake. Minutes later, another post marked the crossing of the first commercial truck, a vehicle […]
TORONTO — Police say the U.S. consulate in Toronto was shot at early this morning, a few months after the same building was targeted by gunfire. They say officers in the area heard a shot near the consulate on University Avenue at 4:46 a.m., and found a shell casing outside the building. Police say there […]
TORONTO — Toronto police say they have identified two women killed in decades-old cold cases using DNA analysis and genealogy databases. Investigators say a woman whose skeletal remains were found buried under a building by demolition workers in 1995 has been identified as Mary McLeod Moffat. Police say Moffat was born in Scotland in 1905 […]
Police in Toronto say they are investigating a shooting near the U.S. consulate early this morning. They say officers in the area heard a firearm discharge near the U.S. consulate on University Avenue at 4:46 a.m. Police say officers found evidence of the firearm discharge outside the consulate building. They say a white sedan vehicle […]
TORONTO — Four years after a lawnmower accident nearly cost him both legs, 10-year-old Austin Byres crossed the finish line at Supertri Toronto on Sunday. Byres ran the final stretch of the annual triathlon alongside Canadian Olympic triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk and members of the team from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children that helped save both […]