Month: March 2018

Authorities say a man is lucky to be alive after the vehicle he was driving burst into flames when he crashed into a tree in Mississauga. The incident happened just after midnight on Wednesday at Fairwind Drive and Bristol Road. First responders arrived on scene and located a vehicle engulfed in flames with the driver still inside. Emergency crews managed to pull the driver out of the vehicle. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The cause of…

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A man in his 40s was taken to hospital following a stabbing in east-end Toronto. The incident happened just before 2 a.m. Wednesday near a bar on Danforth Avenue and Greenwood Avenue. Toronto paramedics said the male victim was transported to hospital with serious injuries. Police have not revealed any details about possible suspects. Powered by WPeMatico

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TORONTO – Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur is expected to appear in a Toronto court today via video. The 66-year-old self-employed landscaper is charged with the first-degree murder of six men who had ties to the city’s LGBTQ community. Police have recovered the remains of seven people from planter pots found at a home in midtown Toronto where McArthur worked and stored equipment. Story continues below READ MORE: Bruce McArthur had me in a ‘kill position,’ says Toronto man haunted…

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Students have been reporting bed bugs for months in classroom 205 at Ryerson University’s Victoria Building, but after a school investigation turned up zero insects, the school’s student newspaper took it upon themselves to uncover the truth. Kamil Karamali reports. Powered by WPeMatico

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CALEDON, Ont. – A man and woman travelling to Canada from China were arrested Monday on outstanding animal cruelty charges from more than a decade ago. Provincial police in Caledon, Ont., say a warrant was issued for the arrest of Joseph Sau-Chuen Chang, 54, and Mee-Young Chung, 49, in 2005. They say officers searched a Caledon home after neighbours reported seeing horses in distress, and found nearly 30 horses in a penned area without food or water, as well…

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The union representing Peel Region paramedics says an investigation by Ontario’s police watchdog into the circumstances of a death of a man who officers tried to save with the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone will have “a chilling effect” that could harm those who are vulnerable. Story continues below “The province’s police officers were equipped with the life-saving narcotic antidote as part of the provincial opiate strategy. This is an important life-saving initiative,” a statement issued by the Peel Paramedic…

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Barrington Macpherson and his wife Sharon Edwards are packing boxes in their Mount Olive Drive townhouse. Macpherson was the innocent victim of a drive by shooting in January 2017 and this past weekend, one of their neighbours was shot to death, just a few hundred metres from their back door of their home near Kipling and Finch Ave. “We’re not in a third world country. To be living like this, we’re at siege, we can’t go outside,” she said,…

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Twenty-eight-year-old DeMar DeRozan is having the best season of his career. He is a four-time NBA all-star, an avid community participant, and is considered by many to be a hero and a role model. However, DeRozan has also struggled with depression. On Feb. 17, he tweeted, “This depression get the best of me.” It was a brief admission, but a significant one. This depression get the best of me… — DeMar DeRozan (@DeMar_DeRozan) February 17, 2018 Story continues…

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“I’m really at a point where we’re getting very close to having the cabinet and other things I want,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday before leaving for a trip to California. He said he disagreed with Mr. Tillerson on the Iran nuclear deal and on other issues. “It was a different mind-set,” Mr. Trump said. Their lack of rapport was evident in the peremptory way the president fired him. Mr. Tillerson learned of it on Tuesday morning when an aide…

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