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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Officers with Peel Region’s Safer Roads Team (SRT) say they have made 31 arrests and laid a combined total of 122 charges after investigating two street racing events. Last November, between 100 and 150 vehicles gathered on two days across Peel Region …
Read More »Brothers from India among 3 killed in Brampton crash, possibly linked to street racing – Toronto
Kanchen Gill left a bouquet of flowers on Friday at the spot on Bovaird Dr. near Chinguacousy Rd. in Brampton where three young men died in a terrible crash early Tuesday morning. “It definitely hurts,” said the 18-year-old who knew the victims because two of them worked at her parents’ …
Read More »Driver of Mercedes was ‘racing’ before crash on Gardiner Expressway: police – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say vehicles were racing before one vehicle, a Mercedes, lost control, causing a fiery multi-vehicle collision on the Gardiner Expressway on Thursday night. Police said the crash happened around 7:30 p.m. on the eastbound lanes of the expressway near Fort …
Read More »Honda Indy Toronto benefits Ontario tourism as organizers seek contract renewal
TORONTO — Although Christian Lundgaard stood atop the podium after the Honda Indy Toronto, local tourism may have been the real winner. The four-day racing event at Toronto’s Exhibition Place drew 148,000 attendees in 2022 and organizers say it drew even more this summer. Andrew Weir, executive vice-president of Destination …
Read More »‘Like a warzone’: Street racing in Mississauga parking lot wreaking havoc – Toronto
When Mississauga councillor Carolyn Parrish says the sound of drag racing and modified cars coming from a mall parking lot in her ward is like a warzone, she’s speaking from experience. “Seriously, I’ve been in a war zone, I was in Syria when I was an MP, it’s the same …
Read More »Long history of harness racing in Saint John may be nearing finish line
Wayne Hubbard is a fixture at Exhibition Park Raceway in Saint John. He started going there as a youngster, “got hooked” on harness racing, and has been going there ever since. “If you can’t find me at home, find me here. It’s just my second home.” He’s just come off the track …
Read More »80-year-old facing $23K bill after racing pigeons were seized while he was in hospital
Arthur Plasschaert has been racing pigeons as a hobby since he was a 13-year-old in the Netherlands. A retired real estate agent, he’s spent the last five decades raising and racing the birds about 140 kilometres east of Toronto, in Brighton, Ont. Now, he says his pigeons have been taken away and he’s …
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