The Toronto Police Service has arrested and charged 55-year-old Jeffrey Dewey of Toronto with sexual assault and impersonating a peace officer in connection with a Sept. 11 incident. At 12:06 p.m., a 36-year-old woman was in the College Street and Spadina Avenue area, when a man approached her and showed an object resembling a police […]

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By Summer Reid The Toronto Police Service (TPS) has requested the public’s assistance in investigating a sexual assault that occurred on Sept. 5. At approximately 3:30 a.m., a man sexually assaulted a woman after entering her home in the College Street and Ossington Avenue area. Last seen walking northbound on Ossington Avenue towards College Street, […]

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The Toronto Police Service is requesting assistance with a shooting investigation in the Bloor Street West and Christie Street area. On July 30 at approximately 9:00 a.m., a man shot two people during a fitness class in Christie Pits. One victim, who was nearby when the shooting occurred, was hit in the foot by a […]

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Six years in a federal penitentiary. Given the judicial constraints in this case, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Then has delivered a fair sentence to Constable James Forcillo of the Toronto Police Service for the attempted murder of Sammy Yatim on a Toronto streetcar three years ago. A jury had previously found Forcillo not guilty […]

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There were five separate reports of robberies between April 14 and April 30. By Geremy Bordonaro The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is looking for two suspects in a series of armed robberies which have taken place between Harbord and Queen streets, and between Spadina Avenue and Markham Street. There were five separate reports of robberies […]

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PHOTO COURTESY JESSICA LEE/TDSB: Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff and students joined with the Toronto Police Service at Harbord Collegiate Institute to celebrate International Day of Pink on April 13, which raises awareness to stop discrimination, gender-based bullying, homophobia, and transphobia. Special guests included Canadian Olympian and rhythmic gymnast Rose Cossar and Eugene Melnyk, […]

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By Brian Burchell University of Toronto Schools (UTS) will mark its third annual celebration of International Day of Pink with an expanded mandate to raise money for Sprott House, which opened last month in the Annex. Led by UTS guidance counsellor Catherine Wachter and organized by the students themselves, the day builds awareness of homophobia, […]

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Incidents connected to Entertainment District By Brian Burchell An overall reduction in crime across 14 Division, particularly in key categories, is overshadowed by a city-wide increase in shootings, some of which have occurred in the division’s southern flank. There were 395 recorded shooting incidents, defined by the Toronto Police Service as those in which a […]

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A 23-year-old woman was walking in the Spadina Avenue and College Street area on Dec. 30, 2015, around 3 p.m. when a man pulled her into an alcove and sexually assaulted her. The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is seeking assistance in identifying the late 20s to early 30s suspect, who is described as approximately five […]

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The Comfort Zone has filed a $23-million lawsuit against the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and former police chief Bill Blair, alleging the parties abused their powers to put the Spadina Avenue after-hours club out of business. After discovering that a 26-year-old man had been seen at the club just hours before his death as a […]

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