Michael Talbot

4 days ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Michael Talbot

Premier Doug Ford was in a familiar spot on Wednesday morning — on CNN, exasperated with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ford, who now routinely appears on U.S. network news to voice his grievances with Trump, said he was “dumbfounded” by the president’s latest move to slap an additional 25 per cent tariff on imports of steel and aluminum to the United States. The premier called the move a “tax” on American products, and said it would hurt the American consumers and workers in the long run.

5 days ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Michael Talbot

The long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT is on track for a September opening, Premier Doug Ford told 680 NewsRadio on Tuesday. Ford added that the Metrolinx project will be handed over to the TTC in the coming weeks. “And thank God, that’s all I have to say about that,” Ford said, sounding exasperated with the 14-year-long saga. Construction on the Eglinton Crosstown began under the previous Ontario Liberal government and a different Metrolinx management in 2011.

5 days ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Michael Talbot

Sports media mogul and pizza review king Dave Portnoy was the target of an anti-Semitic slur during a recent visit to Toronto. Portnoy, who is Jewish, was in the Big Smoke for a Bitcoin conference and had just ordered a pizza at Terrazza on Harbord Street when someone yelled “F**k the Jews” during one of his wildly popular “One Bite” online reviews. “There we go,” a dismayed Portnoy responded. Several youths who were watching the review started laughing, and Portnoy admonished them.

6 days ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Michael Talbot

Police have obtained judicial authorization to identify a young person who escaped from a detention facility in Brampton while facing human trafficking and armed robbery charges.

6 days ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Michael Talbot

Rescue workers are on the scene of an industrial accident that’s trapped two workers waist-high in dirt at a site in York on Monday morning. A wall reportedly collapsed at around 11:39 a.m. at the job site near Edmund Avenue and Weston Road, trapping two male workers in soil. The workers were conscious and breathing when rescue crews arrived. Toronto Fire tells CityNews crews are currently working to stabilize the scene and are awaiting an excavator truck to assist with the rescue.