"Given the pandemic and the number of patrons who attend this event, we regret to advise that, for the first time in 11 years, the Toronto Christmas Market will be cancelled as the crowds are just too large for safe physical distancing."

Carolyn Martin's family was visiting the Toronto Christmas Market when her two year old daughter's teddy bear went missing.

The Toronto Christmas Market has hired extra paid-duty police officers and added barricades at the market entrances as a precaution following the attack in Berlin.