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A 20-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy are facing charges in a string of “extremely violent” attacks against several vulnerable men in Toronto. Catherine McDonald reports.

A Toronto man is encouraging people to take a moment and check in on people who may need assistance. The message came after he suffered a heart attack, and one man stepped in as others ignored his calls for help. Matthew Bingley reports.

Toronto police have released the details of Toronto’s 29th homicide of the year. It has resulted in a number of charges laid against a 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, including second-degree murder. As Jaden Lee-Lincoln reports, the two suspects allegedly went on a violent attack spree targeting the city’s vulnerable population on Aug. 31.

A man and a boy have been arrested in a series of “violent attacks” on several homeless men in Toronto, including one that ended with a death.

A disturbing attack in Welland, where a man is accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a young child. Back-to-school safety is in focus as Toronto police launch a blitz to crack down on dangerous driving in school zones. And Premier Doug Ford declares war on Crown Royal after its parent company announces...

A man has life-threatening injuries after a driver drove off from a gas station in Toronto with the nozzle still attached to the vehicle.

Toronto police say a body discovered at the University of Toronto on Thursday was an unhoused man lying on a bench and he was allegedly attacked, unprovoked, by a suspect using “debris.” The victim was identified as 60-year-old Mario Ferreira.

As Catherine McDonald reports, the court heard the accused Pal Pintyi and the victim Robert Racz had been in a violent fight two years before the fatal pipe attack.

A 29-year-old man has been shot and killed and his 58-year-old relative is in hospital with stab wounds following an attack inside a home on Silverthorn Avenue in Toronto. Jaden Lee-Lincoln has more information on the suspects involved.

A man in Oshawa is facing first-degree murder charges after his wife was found with serious injuries early Sunday morning. She later died in a Toronto trauma centre. And, as the war in Ukraine approaches its 1,000-day milestone, Russia is upping its offensive in the region. Launching a wave of airstrikes in Ukraine Sunday, Russia’s...

City councillors, neighbours and families of the victims of the Toronto van attack gathered on Sunday afternoon to remember the 11 people killed, marking the attack’s fifth anniversary. Ahmar Khan reports.

Alek Minassian has been found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in connection with the 2018 Toronto van attack. Catherine McDonald joins us now with the latest.

An arrest has been made after police say a double stabbing left one person dead and another critically injured at a downtown apartment in Peterborough on Sept. 6. Around 9 p.m. officers responded to a reported stabbing at a Simcoe Street apartment. Police chief Stuart Betts says a 27-year-old Peterborough woman was pronounced dead at...

During a virtual commemoration of the second anniversary of the Toronto van attack, Mayor John Tory held a moment of silence for the victims and then read out loud their names. He said that he would be placing ten candles on his window facing Nathan Phillips Square to honour the memory of the lives lost.

President Donald Trump used the Toronto van attack as an example of why gun control won’t work, during a speech to the annual convention of the NRA. Jackson Proskow reports.

New details are surfacing about Alek Minassian, the suspect in the Toronto van attack. Mike Drolet hears from a former classmate on Minassian’s socially awkward behaviour in school.

Mon, May 4: Friends are in shock after a Toronto man was shot and killed after attending the Kentucky Derby. Cindy Pom reports on what happened.

Three new charges of attempted murder have been laid against Alek Minassian, the man accused in a deadly van attack in Toronto last month.

Henry Yang, a witness to Monday afternoon’s deadly van attack in Toronto, tells Global News that he was driving right behind the van when he saw it veer onto the sidewalk as “bodies flew through the air.”

On Friday in the House of Commons, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh spoke about violence against women in Canada during his speech on the 30th anniversary of the École Polytechnique Montreal massacre, also recalling the Toronto van attack that took the lives of 10 individuals last year.