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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...

Admitted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki has been handed four life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years in the 2022 murders of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg. Rebecca Contois, 24; Morgan Harris, 39; Marcedes Myran, 26; and an unidentified woman Indigenous community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, were Skibicki’s victims....

The federal government will consider revoking the citizenship of a Toronto man accused of plotting a terrorist attack for ISIS, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Wednesday. Miller told reporters he had begun “preliminary work” to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to rescind the suspect’s Canadian citizenship and a department will look into the...

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canadians deserve answers about how Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and his son Mostafa, who are both accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Toronto, got into Canada. How Miller also says he intends to find out if the father should have his Canadian citizenship revoked. For the second time in...

There are more questions than answers about how a Toronto man accused of plotting a terror attack in the name of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) was able to immigrate to Canada. As Mercedes Stephenson reports, critics are calling it a failure in border security.

There are more questions than answers about how a Toronto man accused of plotting a terror attack in the name of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) was able to immigrate to Canada. Why critics are calling it a failure in border security. A massive pool of water is building up behind a landslide on the...

Iran is blaming Israel and vowing revenge for a missile strike on Tehran that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. What the assassination could mean for the Israeli hostages and ceasefire talks in Gaza, what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying, and the fears of Haniyeh’s death sparking a wider war in the Middle...

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.

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.

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...