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'A silent menace': E-scooter, e-bike debate hits another GTA city

It's a debate Ontario municipalities have been facing down for years, particularly in large urban centres like Toronto - what to do with e-bikes and e-scooters showing up on sidewalks, in bike lanes and...

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TDSB cuts Gr. 9 at second Toronto school serving students with disabilities

Attending Eastdale Collegiate in the city's east end has been life-changing for Andrea Seeborn's 16-year-old son, Charlie. The small secondary school has been a pillar for the community, offering its 114...

11h ago

'It's the end of the city': Battle continues over Toronto's sixplexes

The war over sixplexes - a residential building divided up into six different homes - may be over in many Toronto wards, but the battles over individual properties continue, block by block. Toronto...

12h ago

Another rent strike brewing in Toronto as landlord seeks retroactive increase

Residents of a west-end Toronto apartment building say they will be going on a rent strike to protest the landlord's application for a retroactive 2025 rent increase that would amount to more than five...

13h ago

Subway service resumes after chaotic rush hour transit commute on both Line 1 and 2

Subway service has resumed following a more than three-hour suspension on a stretch of Line 2, which made for a chaotic rush hour commute home. Just after 3:30 p.m., the TTC advised commuters that trains...

13h ago

Man pinned under farm machinery in Oshawa has died: Durham police

Durham Regional Police say a man in his 80s who was pinned under farm machinery in Oshawa on Friday has died in hospital. Emergency crews attended a private farm on Ritson Road North near Howden Road...

14h ago

U of T investigating dean of dentistry over claims of antisemitic course materials

The University of Toronto has launched an investigation after claims that the dean of dentistry shared course materials that included antisemitic and anti-Israel imagery. The university says Anil Kishen...

14h ago

Arrest of teen leads to $7M cocaine seizure, one of Durham police's 'largest' ever

Durham Regional Police say the arrest of a teen accused of dealing drugs ultimately led them to a massive $7 million cocaine seizure. "Investigators took a 17-year-old male into custody for possession...

18h ago

Toronto man charged after alleged Snapchat meeting leads to sexual assault in Ajax

A 22-year-old Toronto man is facing charges following a sexual assault investigation in Ajax earlier this month, Durham police say. Officers responded to a report on July 5, after a woman told police...

19h ago

3 charged after lengthy probe into 2024 armed home invasion in King Township

York Regional Police have charged three men in connection with a 2024 armed home invasion in the Township of King that ended with a Good Samaritan being shot. Officers were called to a home in the Paradise...

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