Category: Hamilton News

Toronto police have scheduled a press conference Wednesday morning to update the public on the shooting death of Dwayne Anthony Vidal in Etobicoke. Police said Vidal was coming home at around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 10 when he was shot in the chest while walking in the courtyard of his townhouse at 17 Mount Olive Dr. READ MORE: Residents in north Etobicoke say they live in fear over outbreak of gun violence The victim, a father of three, was…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 13 2018 8:11pm Global News at 5:30 on Global Toronto for Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Hosted by Alan Carter and Farah Nasser. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident && gNews.Common.isFlash ) {…

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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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Her nomination is certain to reignite the wrenching debate over their use and the resulting psychological damage for terrorism suspects. Though lawmakers, human rights activists and others eventually condemned the interrogation methods as torture, the program had defenders. Among them was Mr. Trump, who vowed during his campaign to bring back waterboarding and once said that “torture works,” though he later backed off that declaration. Ms. Haspel, 61, would become the first woman to run C.I.A. if she is…

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