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Toronto police said a woman was reportedly assaulted by an unknown man in the Richmond Street and John Street West area of the city at around 1:20 p.m. on Sept. 26. News Source link

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children says some of its systems could be offline for weeks after it was the subject of a ransomware attack. SickKids says its clinical teams are experiencing delays retrieving lab and imaging results, which could create longer wait times for patients and families. Toronto police confirmed …

Toronto police say they have laid charges against two men in connection with a fatal stabbing in the city’s east end earlier this week. Police said on Dec. 6, officers responded to a stabbing near Danforth and Greenwood avenues. Officers found a man with stab wounds and performed life-saving measures, …

Toronto Mayor John Tory is ramping up his appeal for financial help from the province and federal government, stressing that the city needs them to step up and fill an $815-million budget deficit created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to both Premier Doug Ford and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland …

Hotel prices across downtown Toronto have skyrocketed and as the busy tourist season winds down, industry experts say there’s no sign they’ll come back down anytime soon. They say consumers are paying substantially more due to a combination of factors. “Prices are high for two reasons,”  said Wayne Smith, a professor in …

If you’ve been priced out of Toronto’s real estate market, Alberta hopes its latest ploy will have you looking west to achieve your white-picket-fence dreams.  In a move to lure fed-up prospective home buyers, the province has unveiled the second phase of its campaign dubbed “Alberta is Calling.”  “We’ve got Canada’s lowest taxes and …

After two years without a permanent chief, last week the Toronto Police Service selected the city’s new top cop. The lengthy timeline that led to the appointment of Myron Demkiw, a 32-year-veteran of the service, has some experts and critics asking why it took so long to select a qualified candidate …

The City of Toronto is giving its growing film and television production industry the power to continue to go green. The city announced Monday it will give production crews access to Toronto’s power grid at two highly-utilized film locations — Ashbridges Bay Park and Sir Casimir Gzowski Park. The city said the plan …

Fatima Sherefa, 17, had a rough night at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Aug. 6.  Her flight from Toronto home to Winnipeg had been delayed several times and then, just after midnight, it was cancelled.  Sherefa says Air Canada staff didn’t offer hotel accommodation for the night, and instead passed out yoga …

Toronto author and historian Arlene Chan has been expecting it to happen for years. And with this week’s census release, it finally did: Mandarin has edged out Cantonese as the second-most common first language in Toronto, after English.  “I’ve been watching over the years, the slow increase,” said Chan, who …