Man Armed With Hatchet, Bear Spray Attacks Mosque
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the courage of worshipers at a Toronto-area mosque after they fended off an attacker armed with a hatchet and bear spray. Police say the attacker was subdued by...
View ArticleShe Fled Home After Assault. The Worst Was Yet to Come
Opening up the door of the home in the small Canadian town of Wasaga Beach, the owner saw three armed men who looked like police officers. They claimed to have an arrest warrant for Elnaz Hajtamiri, a...
View ArticleCrash of Small Plane Kills 2 Wanted Gang Members
Two men with ties to organized crime—one an alleged international hit man and the other accused in a murder plot, both with outstanding warrants for their arrests—have died in a small plane crash in...
View ArticleNot the Loch Ness Monster in Detroit, but Something Else Amazing
"As a PhD student in marine ecology, Eric Ste Marie knew what he saw was rare." That sighting in the Detroit River last month, as described by WXYZ , is now making headlines, and it may be the first of...
View ArticleTikTok Influencer's First Skydive Ends in Tragedy
On Aug. 29, a statement from Skydive Toronto announced the death two days earlier of a 21-year-old skydiving student, citing "fatal injuries obtained from an emergency situation." It didn't identify...
View ArticleBrothers Who Haven't Spoken in Decades Both Want to Be Mayor
Port Colborne is looking for its next mayor, and on Monday, the small Ontario town will decide if that person is going to be incumbent Bill Steele or his only challenger, Charles Steele—the estranged...
View ArticleHe Signed $400K Deal for Home, Was Told to Pay Another $100K
Toronto is certainly not the only city in recent years to experience a building boom and soaring home prices. Nor is it the only place whose construction industry was upended by pandemic-related supply...
View ArticleCity's Mayoral Race Certainly Has Interesting Candidates
Over the weekend, Toronto Star columnist Edward Keenan made his picks for the six top contenders to be the next mayor of Ontario's capital, after Friday's deadline for submitting candidacy papers came...
View ArticleBeekeeper Says 'I Hope to Never Experience It Again'
"I hope to never experience it again," says a beekeeper who was asked to come to the rescue on Wednesday morning after 5 million bees toppled off a truck in Canada. Police phoned Michael Barber, owner...
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