Vanessa Kurpiewska

• Man who attacked women on TTC, killing 1, sentenced to life in prison

  A Chinese national who stabbed two strangers on the TTC near High Park Station two-and-a-half years ago has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

  Crime

  May 21, 2025
  
• Toronto mayor to ramp up pressure for mental health supports after TTC killing

  Toronto's mayor has been making increasingly public calls on the federal and provincial governments to invest more in mental health and addiction supports.

  Politics

  Dec 16, 2022
  
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• Toronto police homicide clearance rate highest seen in 20 years

  The head of the Toronto Police Homicide Squad says the clearance rates for homicides in 2022 is the highest the City has seen in the last twenty years.

  Crime

  Dec 16, 2022
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• Victim of fatal Toronto stabbing remembered as a ‘beautiful’ woman who loved to travel

  Thirty-one-year-old Vanessa Kurpiewska died in hospital after she and another woman were stabbed on the subway near High Park station Thursday afternoon.

  Crime

  Dec 9, 2022
• Woman killed in stabbing onboard Toronto subway train identified, wasn’t known to suspect: police

  Toronto police have identified 31-year-old Vanessa Kurpiewska as the victim who was fatally stabbed onboard a subway train near High Park.

  Crime

  Dec 9, 2022