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4 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
Toronto Maple Leafs fans are in the singing spirit with a playoffs series lead in Round 2 against the Florida Panthers. An online video is going viral for showing fans serenading the team’s anthem singer Natalie Morris with an impromptu rendition of “O Canada” on the TTC subway. The singalong was initially posted to TikTok Thursday before the Leafs put it out on their social media Friday afternoon.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Alex Ballingall |Tonda MacCharles |Mark Ramzy
VANCOUVER—The city and its devastated Filipino community were struggling Sunday to understand how a joyful weekend street festival had turned into a scene of carnage after a vehicle plowed into the event, leaving 11 dead and dozens injured.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Alex Ballingall
Witnesses described the suspect “(driving) into a large crowd” at the street festival just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday. Video posted on social media showed victims and debris strewn across the long stretch of road, with at least seven people lying immobile on the ground. Nic Magtajas, present at the time of the incident, described an SUV travelling at a high speed while striking pedestrians.
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1 month ago | 
flamboroughreview.com | Kristjan Lautens |Ilyas Hussein |Mark Colley |Abby O’Brien
What started as a call for a man in distress in the departures drop-off area at Toronto Pearson airport early Thursday morning ended with one person shot dead by police, their body splayed out under a yellow tarp on the curb side as the police watchdog investigated. The sudden shooting left passengers briefly stranded outside the departures area as emergency vehicles responded, blocking both the ramp and drop-off area of the airport during one of the busiest travel times.
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1 month ago | 
therecord.com | Kristjan Lautens |Ilyas Hussein |Mark Colley |Abby O’Brien
What started as a call for a man in distress in the departures drop-off area at Toronto Pearson airport early Thursday morning ended with one person shot dead by police, their body splayed out under a yellow tarp on the curb side as the police watchdog investigated. The sudden shooting left passengers briefly stranded outside the departures area as emergency vehicles responded, blocking both the ramp and drop-off area of the airport during one of the busiest travel times.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Ilyas Hussein |Mark Colley |Abby O’Brien
A 30-year-old man is dead after being shot by police at Toronto’s Pearson airport Thursday morning. The Special Investigations Unit says Peel police officers were called to the airport’s Terminal 1 departures drop-off area after reports of a man in distress in an SUV. The man reportedly produced a firearm, the SIU added. Three officers fired their guns at the man, the SIU said. There are no threats to public safety, they added. None of the officers was injured, the SIU said.
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1 month ago | 
therecord.com | Alex Boyd |Kristjan Lautens |Alex Ballingall |Raisa Patel
Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff, died Monday. He was 88. Follow the Star’s live coverage today. The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, is postponed after the pope’s deathVATICAN CITY—The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sunday in St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of the Jubilee celebration for adolescents.
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1 month ago | 
therecord.com | Ryan Tumilty |Raisa Patel |Kristjan Lautens |Justin Ling
This file is no longer being updated. Tonight’s debate — one of only two scheduled this election — was streamed here with live analysis from across the Star’s newsroom. Scroll through below.
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2 months ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
All lanes of the southbound Don Valley Parkway have reopened after a six-vehicle collision shut down the roadway and sent a man to hospital early Tuesday morning. The collision happened near Eastern Avenue just before 5:30 a.m., Toronto police said in a post to social media. A man was rushed to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, paramedics said, adding that they do not believe anybody else was hurt.
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2 months ago | 
yorkregion.com | Aliyah Marko |Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
When Christopher Martins drove around his neighbourhood in the north end of Barrie on Sunday morning, he felt like he had “stepped into a war zone.” Decades-old trees were crushed by ice in nearly every yard, sheds and fences were damaged and branches littered the ground. Already a Subscriber? Sign in “It’s very, very scary. I’ve been living in Barrie for almost eight years, and I’ve never seen a winter like this,” said Martins.
