Toronto
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Two Shootings, Four and a Half Hours, One Corner of Rexdale: A House Shot Up on Humberline at 3 a.m., a Man Shot at Kipling and Finch at 7:37 (August 18, 2026)
Toronto Police responded to two shootings in north Etobicoke within four and a half hours on Tuesday morning. At 3:05 a.m. officers found evidence of gunfire at Finch Avenue West and Humberline Drive, with a house and several parked vehicles damaged and nobody hurt. At 7:37 a.m., roughly two kilometres west at Kipling and Finch,…
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Where Damion Ryan Stands: 24½ Years in Manitoba, a First-Degree Murder Charge in Ontario, and a Murder-for-Hire Indictment in Minnesota (August 17, 2026)
A status file, not a news bulletin. Hells Angel Damion Ryan is seven weeks into a Manitoba drug sentence that is routinely misreported as 23 years — the correct total is 24 years and six months, comprising 23 years for drug conspiracy plus 18 months consecutive for instructing offences on behalf of a criminal organization.…
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One Man Held the Knife, the Other Stood There: Toronto Police Charge Hung Nguyen, 66, and Colin Miller, 44, With Attempt Murder in a Riverdale Back Stabbing (August 17, 2026)
Toronto Police disclosed Monday morning that two men have been arrested over an August 11 stabbing near Danforth Avenue and Broadview Avenue that left an adult male with life-threatening injuries. Investigators allege the victim was approached by two men he knew, that one stabbed him in the back while the second stood by, and that…
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Cash on the Table Within Two Business Days: Ontario’s Bail Deposit Regime Starts Monday, and Two Legal Organizations Are Already Heading to Court (August 16, 2026)
Ontario’s new bail security rules take effect Monday, August 17. Where a release order carries a pledged amount, the accused must now deposit that full amount in cash within two business days of release, rather than merely promising to pay it. Sureties must provide current identification, collection powers expand to garnishment, liens and seizure of…
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Approached From Behind at Bloor and Yonge: Anthony McLaughlin, 36, Surrenders Over the Stabbing of a TTC Electrician on His Morning Break (August 16, 2026)
Toronto police confirmed in a Sunday morning release that Anthony Christopher David McLaughlin, 36, of Toronto turned himself in over the stabbing of a TTC electrical worker near Bloor Street and Yonge Street. The worker was on a break on the sidewalk at about 8:10 a.m. Friday when a man police describe as unknown to…
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Fourteen Counts and a Tourniquet: Peterborough Man, 27, Charged With Attempted Murder After Toronto Officer Shot in E-Bike Robbery Chase (August 14, 2026)
A 27-year-old Peterborough man faces fourteen counts, including attempt murder and disarming a peace officer, after a Toronto police constable was shot in the leg during a foot pursuit near Bloor Street East and Sherbourne Street on Thursday morning. The charge sheet published Friday shows the accused was already bound by a release order and…
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Twenty Minutes and Half a City Apart: Two Men in Their Thirties Stabbed on the Same Friday Night in Toronto, and Police Have No Description of Anyone (August 15, 2026)
Toronto police were called to two separate stabbings roughly twenty minutes apart late Friday night — a plaza near Rogers Road and Keele Street just after 11:20 p.m., and Wellesley Street and Jarvis Street at about 11:40 p.m. Both victims were men in their thirties with non-life-threatening injuries. In both cases the attacker fled before…
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Twice to the Podium in Seventeen Days: Toronto Homicide Returns to the Ding Ping Wang File With a New Update (August 14, 2026)
Toronto Police Homicide called reporters back to headquarters Friday morning for a second update in seventeen days on the November 2022 killing of Ding Ping Wang, a 31-year-old father shot in his car in a Scarborough plaza parking lot. Det.-Sgt. Sajeev Nair leads the file. No arrest has been announced in 1,371 days.
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The Pawn Shop at Queen and Church: Project Compass Ends With 2,500 Recovered Items, 150 Charges and a Public Registry of the Loot (August 13, 2026)
Toronto Police released the results of Project Compass on Thursday morning: three people arrested, 150 charges laid, and more than 2,500 pieces of jewellery, gold, coins and currency recovered from a pawn shop near Queen and Church streets. Investigators put the haul at between $1 million and $1.5 million and have published photographs of every…
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Two Minutes Past Two at Church and Shuter: Man Stabbed in Downtown Toronto, Masked Suspect Gone Before Officers Arrived (August 13, 2026)
Toronto police responded to a person-with-a-knife call at Church Street and Shuter Street at 2:01 p.m. Thursday and found an adult male with stab wounds. He was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect, described as a male in a black ski mask and a black-and-white T-shirt, fled before officers arrived. No…