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The City of Toronto's human rights office has seen a significant increase in demand over the last five years that showed no signs of slowing down in 2024, according to a new report. The number of inquiries to the office, which serves city employees and residents interacting with municipal services, has increased by 89 per cent since 2019 and went up 32 per cent in 2024, according to the report before the general government committee Thursday. The vast majority of inquiries relate to complaints and accommodation.

The motion put forward by the NDP looks to update the Ticket Sales Act to combat fraud, and predatory pricing by banning the sale of tickets above face value, but did not mention how this policy would be enforced. Here's the choice we're putting towards Conservatives. You can either vote with us to finally end ticket gouging once and for all, or keep siding with the resellers and leave fans on the sidelines, said Leader Marit Stiles at a news conference Wednesday.

The fact that he met them in public [near] his place of work, which is a police station, obviously provided, I would think, some other form of assurance for our clients that this was a legitimate real estate transaction, said Alex Henderson, the plaintiffs' lawyer. He was someone whose job is to maintain public trust as a police officer; I'm sure that did play a role in our clients decision to trust him.

The image he shared was him at Dodger Stadium when he rented it out for a date in 2021. The caption reads "World Series Bound," with the song "OK Blue Jays" featured in the post. Drake just took to Instagram to share a picture of when he rented out Dodger Stadium for a date back in 2021.He included the song "OK Blue Jays" and the caption "World Series Bound"? pic.twitter.com/PNBHAT2N9T- Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) October 21, 2025

Diwali, also known as the Hindu festival of lights, is a five-day event that people around the world celebrate with gatherings, lights, fireworks and feasts. Diwali is derived from the word "Deepavali," meaning "a row of lights." The dates of the festival are based on the Hindu lunar calendar, typically falling in late October or early November. The festival is also observed by Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists.

Ontario Provincial Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing one-year-old girl last seen in Brampton. In the alert, the OPP say the girl's name is Skyla-Rose Deschepper and the suspect is Anthony Deschepper, 38. The vehicle he is driving is a 2024 model Nissan with the licence plate FRV4520, they say. If anyone has seen the child, suspect or vehicle, they are urged to call 911. More to come

U NDER THE GAZE of a security camera in the northeastern corner of Yorkdale Shopping Centre, a woman and a teenage girl are caught in a confrontation. It is the evening of December 17, 2022, just a week before Christmas-the first holiday season in two years with no pandemic lockdown restrictions-and in the soundless CCTV footage, shoppers at the sprawling mall in a northern Toronto neighbourhood are in constant motion.

Marilyn Morawetz stares at the crumbling walls of a historic cafeteria building, still finding beauty in its prairie-style architecture. They're almost never seen in an industrial kind of setting like this, she said. If it goes down, our real fear is that everything will go down and that would be an incredible shame. The 100-year-old building closed in 2008 and sits in disrepair alongside five other heritage buildings that once formed Camp 30, on the edge of the Town of Bowmanville, Ont.

The unit aims to provide a "culturally responsive approach" to community safety, according Mark Dapat, Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief of community safety and well-being, who oversees the centralized unit of 10 dedicated officers. Dapat said the unit will address hate-motivated crimes involving religious institutions and cultural centres, as well as those stemming from social and geopolitical tensions. 'We've been listening to our community," Dapat told CBC Toronto. "They feel sometimes during the judicial process they're lost in the system.'

A 52-year-old man from Toronto has been arrested for sexually assaulting two minors and for breaking and entering a Toronto apartment, said police. Oscar Campos, a former superintendent at an apartment near Islington Avenue and Rexdale Boulevard, is alleged to have befriended and sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl and 10-year-old girl on multiple occasions, said a release by Toronto police.

But a legal roadblock stands in the way: Quebec doesn't legally recognize more than two parents per child. That fact was a dealbreaker for the first adoption agency the men applied with. But after working with a lawyer, they approached another, which they said was more open to their relationship. The agency started the evaluation process. "Through that process, they learned that we are a little different because we're three, but we're not different from any other family," LeBlanc said.

Good news Toronto readers: starting this week, all of Toronto's 100 public libraries will be open on Sundays. Thirty-three library branches will now be open on Sundays for the first time, while 67 are extending their Sunday hours, a Toronto Public Library (TPL) news release said Friday. The change means all libraries will be open Sundays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., except on holidays.

One person is dead after a stabbing in Scarborough Thursday afternoon, police say. Police were called to the area of Eglinton Avenue and Danforth Road at around 4:15 p.m., Toronto police said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and two people were arrested in the area, police say. No further details have been released.

Fifty years ago, the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement saved the Inuit and the Cree of Northern Quebec from the flooding of their lands and the total transformation of their way of life. It also marked the beginning of an evolution that profoundly shaped these communities. Canada's first modern treaty, the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement was gradually implemented, granting the Inuit and the Cree school boards, access to health services, integration into the Canadian economy, and much more.

Khan, 21, was arrested by heavily armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers near a gas station in Ormstown, Que., last year, after authorities said he paid a human smuggler to help him cross the U.S. border. Khan faces two terrorism-related charges over an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to open fire at an unnamed Jewish centre in Brooklyn, which was set to be carried out around the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.

The trial for an investor who allegedly kidnapped Ontario's self-proclaimed 'Crypto King' after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to him is set to begin Tuesday in Toronto. Akil Heywood, 41, is facing three charges related to the alleged kidnapping of Aiden Pleterski in early December 2022, and two counts of extortion. Heywood was one of five men charged in July 2023 in connection with the alleged kidnapping.

The more we increase our taxes, the less competitive we're going to be against other cities that we compete with for conventions, for example, she said.

Conservative member of Parliament Michelle Rempel Garner, the shadow minister for immigration, has been on a social media tear. From August 26 to September 26, the member for the Alberta riding of Calgary Nose Hill posted on X about temporary foreign workers (TFWs). Nearly every day, she'd pluck a job listing from the jobwatchcanada.com website and imply it was fraudulent.

Reporting by The Guardianthis week revealed that Marineland of Canada Inc, a for-profit aquatic theme park, is threatening to euthanize one of the largest captive whale populations in the world. Unless, that is, the Canadian government steps in to save the park from financial ruin with taxpayer dollars. Marineland has been plagued with financial woes over the past few years, including quite a bit of debt.

Toronto's newest cultural district was officially inaugurated Saturday in North York, bringing joy and excitement to the Iranian community in the city. Persian-Canadians, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Coun. Lily Cheng (Willowdale) joined together at Centre Park to unveil Little Iran's sign. On this Thanksgiving weekend, I want to show my gratitude to the Iranian community for coming together, celebrating, Chow said Saturday. Today is really a historic day.

A 38-year-old Ontario man who faced a rare charge under Canada's state secrets law of leaking sensitive information to a foreign entity or terrorist group has been found not criminally responsible after he posted a YouTube video that disclosed nuclear power plant vulnerabilities and provided instructions on how to cause damage. James Alexander Mousaly, who worked for provincial electricity producer Ontario Power Generation, was suffering from bipolar disorder and psychosis

About two dozen former Robert Land Academy students gathered at Queen's Park in Toronto on Thursday to demand better regulation of Ontario's private schools as the closed military-style school faces allegations of abuse. Their calls for change came after a CBC News investigation into allegations of historic physical and emotional abuse, and in some cases sexual exploitation, at the Wellandport private school.