Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga confirmed alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur faces a sixth first-degree murder charge relating to Skandaraj ‘Skanda’ Navaratnam, 40, in a press conference at Toronto Police Service Headquarters this morning.
Dozens of toddlers and young children were drawing, reading and singing in protest of the withdrawal of child care subsidy for some Torontonians.
After years of planning, work is finally beginning on the redevelopment of East York’s Michael Garron Hospital.
East York will reap the benefits of millions of dollars in funding to conduct key road and safety improvements over the next two years.
The release of the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Panther” is going to give the Black Speculative Arts Movement a tremendous boost, predicted Quentin VerCetty, artist and founder of Canada’s BSAM organization. “People will be talking about [the film] for a long time, it is something we haven’t seen on screen for a long time, something we artists are trying to create in a speculative realm.”
A large group of Torontonians arrived bundled in layers of clothing Tuesday night at Barbara Hall Park in the heart of the city’s gay district for a vigil of solidarity with the city’s LGBTQ community, and to remember the lives taken by an alleged serial killer. Many participants sported white kerchiefs tied around their arms with the words: love, heal, resist and rise.
There are few experiences as universal as the feeling of elation that comes from eating a warm, home-cooked meal. For a group of recently settled Syrian women in Toronto, that feeling allowed them to transcend cultural and linguistic barriers to create a community united by food.
The commotion caused by the media frenzy four days into the Bruce McArthur investigation has some Leaside residents distressed. Police set up a large tent Monday in the back yard of a property where human remains were discovered of at least three missing Toronto men.
Two men were repeatedly shot at Lawrence Square Shopping Centre at 700 Lawrence Ave. W. on Jan. 8.
Elements of the Toronto police task force codenamed Project Prism have unearthed the remains of at least three different victims in the garden of a home in a quiet Leaside neighborhood.
Early Monday, police revealed the presence of an excavation team in the Bayview Avenue and Moore Avenue area, as they also detailed the results of what exactly the backyard has yielded to date.