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• Daylight shooting in Scarborough leaves teenager seriously injured - CTV News

  15-08-2019 23:03 via toronto.ctvnews.ca
  Daylight shooting in Scarborough leaves teenager seriously injured  CTV NewsA male teenager has been rushed to a trauma centre after he was shot in Scarborough on Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Daylight shooting in Scarborough leaves teenager seriously injured

  15-08-2019 23:03
  A male teenager has been rushed to a trauma centre after he was shot in Scarborough on Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Suspect charged, another sought in 2018 fatal shooting outside Brampton pub

  15-08-2019 22:58
  One man has been charged and another is sought on a warrant in connection with a July 2018 shooting outside a Brampton pub that left a 34-year-old man dead.
  
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• Bullying is still a 'systemic' issue at St. Michael's College School: report

  15-08-2019 22:44 via cbc.ca
  Bullying continues to be a "systemic" issue at a private Toronto school rocked by allegations of sexual assault despite measures introduced in the wake of the scandal, says a report that examined the culture at the all-boys Catholic institution.
  
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• Video shows suspect in sex assault at downtown apartment - CTV News

  15-08-2019 22:34 via toronto.ctvnews.ca
  Video shows suspect in sex assault at downtown apartment  CTV NewsToronto police are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a 34-year-old woman inside a downtown apartment.
  
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• Video shows suspect in sex assault at downtown apartment

  15-08-2019 22:34
  Toronto police are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a 34-year-old woman inside a downtown apartment.
  
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• Bullying continues to be 'systemic' issue at St. Michael's College School, report finds

  15-08-2019 22:27
  Bullying continues to be a "systemic" issue at a private Toronto school rocked by allegations of sexual assault despite measures introduced in the wake of the scandal, says a report that examined culture at the all-boys Catholic institution.
  
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• Toronto's Heat And Humidity Is Going To Spike Again This Weekend And, Honestly, Please No - Narcity

  15-08-2019 22:09 via narcity.com
  Toronto's Heat And Humidity Is Going To Spike Again This Weekend And, Honestly, Please No  NarcityBe honest - you were hoping the intense humidity was gone for the summer, weren't you? We certainly were, but it's shaping up for a return to uncomfortable ...
  
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• Police look to speak with witnesses of Markham murder as suspect remains at large

  15-08-2019 22:04
  As the suspect in a fatal shooting outside of a Markham noodle bar earlier this month remains at large, investigators have released security camera footage showing two witnesses in the hopes they will come forward with any information.
  
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• CN worker dies after railway accident in Vaughan - CTV News

  15-08-2019 20:06 via toronto.ctvnews.ca
  CN worker dies after railway accident in Vaughan  CTV NewsA CN worker has died after a railway accident in Vaughan on Thursday.
  
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• CN worker dies after railway accident in Vaughan

  15-08-2019 20:06
  A CN worker has died after a railway accident in Vaughan on Thursday.
  
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• York Regional Police said the call came in at around 2 a.m. for a report that a railcar had derailed and that there was a worker trapped underneath.http://ow.ly/DCwo50vyzKI 

  15-08-2019 19:26 via twitter.com
  York Regional Police said the call came in at around 2 a.m. for a report that a railcar had derailed and that there was a worker trapped underneath.http://ow.ly/DCwo50vyzKI 
  
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• Toronto Neighbourhoods Got Brutally Roasted By Comedians And The Disses Are Hilarious - Narcity

  15-08-2019 19:20 via narcity.com
  Toronto Neighbourhoods Got Brutally Roasted By Comedians And The Disses Are Hilarious  NarcityComedians on "Your Hood's A Joke" didn't hold back about Toronto.
  
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• Shortlist for Toronto Book Awards includes previous winners Dionne Brand, Cary Fagan - Quill & Quire

  15-08-2019 19:20 via quillandquire.com
  Shortlist for Toronto Book Awards includes previous winners Dionne Brand, Cary Fagan  Quill & QuireThe shortlist has been announced for the Toronto Book Awards, which celebrates work evocative of Toronto.
  
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• Comedians Brutally Roasted Toronto Neighbourhoods & The Burns Are So Perfect - Narcity

  15-08-2019 19:20 via narcity.com
  Comedians Brutally Roasted Toronto Neighbourhoods & The Burns Are So Perfect  Narcity"Your Hood's A Joke", the popular comedy battle show, has made its way back to Toronto for another season. The participating comedians did not hold back with ...
  
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• DNA evidence links man to multiple sexual assaults in Toronto, Collingwood: police - CBC.ca

  15-08-2019 19:19 via cbc.ca
  DNA evidence links man to multiple sexual assaults in Toronto, Collingwood: police  CBC.caTwo police forces have teamed up to investigate three alleged sexual assaults that have now been linked by DNA evidence.
  
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• DNA evidence links man to multiple sexual assaults in Toronto, Collingwood: police

  15-08-2019 19:19 via cbc.ca
  Two police forces have teamed up to investigate three alleged sexual assaults that have now been linked by DNA evidence.
  
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• A passenger jet made an emergency landing in a cornfield about a kilometer from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport after colliding with a flock of birds. Authorities said 23 people, including five children, were treated for minor injuries. MORE: http://ow.ly/OBV7

  15-08-2019 19:17 via twitter.com
  A passenger jet made an emergency landing in a cornfield about a kilometer from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport after colliding with a flock of birds. Authorities said 23 people, including five children, were treated for minor injuries.
  MORE: http://ow.ly/OBV750vyz8T pic.twitter.com/2qrlDPkvFH
  
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• You Can Stuff Your Face With Balut At Toronto's Giant Filipino Food Festival This Weekend - Narcity

  15-08-2019 19:11 via narcity.com
  You Can Stuff Your Face With Balut At Toronto's Giant Filipino Food Festival This Weekend  NarcityThe largest Filipino food festival in North America is hitting the streets of Toronto this weekend for the sixth year in a row, and the food looks so delicious! Taste of ...
  
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• How too little sleep and too much screen time affects a child's behaviour: study

  15-08-2019 19:09 via cbc.ca
  Children who get less than nine to 11 hours a day of sleep, a new study says, and who use screens more than two hours each day are more likely to behave impulsively. Researcher Michelle Guerrero explains how too little sleep and too much screen time can affect a child's behaviour.
  
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• Ex-Toronto cop James Forcillo, who killed Sammy Yatim, granted day parole and will move to halfway house - Toronto Star

  15-08-2019 19:03 via thestar.com
  Ex-Toronto cop James Forcillo, who killed Sammy Yatim, granted day parole and will move to halfway house  Toronto StarKINGSTON—Former Toronto police officer James Forcillo has been granted day parole after serving 21 months of his six-year sentence for the attempted ...
  
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• Mission you should choose to accept: Stellar Canadian contest will name planet, its star

  15-08-2019 19:00 via cbc.ca
  It shouldn't be hard to improve on the current monikers: the planet seeking a new label is named HD136418B, while its star is called HD136418. 
  
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• Municipalities will soon be off the hook for cost of blue box program

  15-08-2019 18:56
  Municipalities across Ontario will be getting out of the recycling business as the Progressive Conservative government shifts the cost of the blue box program onto producers.
  
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• High school teachers will be in class for first day of school, union leader says

  15-08-2019 18:53 via cbc.ca
  The head of Ontario's high school teachers' union says his members will be in the classroom on the first day of school, despite not having a new contract by then.
  
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• 'The building blew sky-high': Witnesses recount massive explosion that destroyed London, Ont. homes

  15-08-2019 18:35
  Residents in London, Ont., said their neighbourhood was engulfed in a “fireball” after a vehicle slammed into a home, hitting a gas line causing a massive explosion that levelled a home and damaged several others.
  
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• Ontario to make product producers responsible for Blue Box program

  15-08-2019 18:31 via cbc.ca
  The province says the new program would streamline 240 existing municipal Blue Box programs in Ontario that have their own lists of accepted materials.
  
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• Worker fatally trapped beneath rail car at MacMillan Yard in Vaughan

  15-08-2019 18:27 via cbc.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after an employee died on the job at a CN Railway yard in Vaughan, York police said Thursday.
  
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• Police link three sexual assaults spanning four years to one man's DNA

  15-08-2019 18:05
  DNA evidence has linked the same man to three separate sexual assaults spanning four years and investigators believe there could be more victims.
  
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• Peel police launch homicide investigation after body found in Brampton creek

  15-08-2019 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Peel Regional Police say that a man found near a creek in Brampton Thursday morning was the victim of a homicide.
  
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• Homicide unit investigating after body found in Brampton

  15-08-2019 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Peel Regional Police’s homicide and missing person’s bureau is investigating after a body was found near a creek in Brampton Thursday morning.
  
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• 'No magic solution' to gun violence in Toronto, police chief says

  15-08-2019 17:58 via cbc.ca
  "There is no magic solution" to gun violence in Toronto, police Chief Mark Saunders said Thursday, as public concern mounts amid a spike in shootings across the city.
  
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• Homicide investigating after person found near Brampton creek dies

  15-08-2019 17:52
  Homicide detectives are investigating after a person was found without vital signs near a creek in Brampton.
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating after man found near Brampton creek

  15-08-2019 17:52
  Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found without vital signs near a creek in Brampton on Thursday morning.
  
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• Update: Homicide investigating after man found near Brampton creek http://ow.ly/vzLp30pmgoU pic.twitter.com/4u16Yx7YLK

  15-08-2019 17:41 via twitter.com
  Update: Homicide investigating after man found near Brampton creek http://ow.ly/vzLp30pmgoU pic.twitter.com/4u16Yx7YLK
  
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• Man linked to 3 sexual assaults in Toronto, Collingwood ‘escalating in violence,’ police say - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

  15-08-2019 17:29 via cp24.com
  Man linked to 3 sexual assaults in Toronto, Collingwood ‘escalating in violence,’ police say  CP24 Toronto's Breaking NewsPolice say a man who has been linked to three sexual assaults in Toronto and Collingwood between 2015 and 2019 is “escalating in violence” and investigators ...
  
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• High school teachers won’t strike but elementary teachers prepared for battle

  15-08-2019 17:29
  Ontario’s public high school teachers are ruling out a back-to-school strike this September despite their contracts expiring at the end of this month.
  
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• A $16 flight and $18 ticket: Toronto woman remembers Woodstock 50 years later - CBC News

  15-08-2019 17:14 via cbc.ca
  A $16 flight and $18 ticket: Toronto woman remembers Woodstock 50 years later  CBC NewsIt was 50 years ago today that Linda Goldman stepped onto the grounds of an upstate New York dairy farm, not knowing she was about to be a part of rock and ...
  
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• A $16 flight and $18 ticket: Toronto woman remembers Woodstock 50 years later - CBC.ca

  15-08-2019 17:08 via cbc.ca
  A $16 flight and $18 ticket: Toronto woman remembers Woodstock 50 years later  CBC.caIt was 50 years ago today that Linda Goldman stepped onto the grounds of an upstate New York dairy farm, not knowing she was about to be a part of rock and ...
  
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• A $16 flight and $18 ticket: Toronto woman remembers Woodstock 50 years later

  15-08-2019 17:07 via cbc.ca
  It was 50 years ago today that Linda Goldman stepped onto the grounds of an upstate New York dairy farm, not knowing she was about to be a part of rock and roll history.
  
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• This Toronto Spot Serves Glass Crystal Jelly Bubble Tea That Literally Glows - Narcity

  15-08-2019 17:02 via narcity.com
  This Toronto Spot Serves Glass Crystal Jelly Bubble Tea That Literally Glows  NarcityWith so many bubble tea shops to try around the city, it's always hard to decide where to go! To stand out in the long list of Toronto bubble tea places to try out, ...
  
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• DNA evidence links suspect to 3 sex assaults in Toronto & Collingwood - CityNews Toronto

  15-08-2019 16:58 via toronto.citynews.ca
  DNA evidence links suspect to 3 sex assaults in Toronto & Collingwood  CityNews TorontoToronto police have released composite sketches of a suspect they say has been linked to three sexual assaults in Toronto and Collingwood through DNA ...
  
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• Canada's largest Filipino food fest returns to Toronto this weekend | Dished - Daily Hive

  15-08-2019 16:37 via dailyhive.com
  Canada's largest Filipino food fest returns to Toronto this weekend | Dished  Daily HiveTaste of Manila isn't just the biggest Filipino food fest in Canada, it's also billed as the largest Filipino festival outside the Philippines. The massive community ...
  
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• Former Liberal cabinet minister turned Independent MP Jane Philpott says the people of Canada still “deserve an apology” from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affairhttp://ow.ly/AlxI50vypcZ 

  15-08-2019 16:35 via twitter.com
  Former Liberal cabinet minister turned Independent MP Jane Philpott says the people of Canada still “deserve an apology” from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affairhttp://ow.ly/AlxI50vypcZ 
  
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• How political protests in Hong Kong are fracturing families in Canada

  15-08-2019 16:30 via cbc.ca
  Political viewpoints are often split over generational lines, says UBC Professor Miu Chung Yan. But while arguments over the Hong Kong protests may have begun with black-and-white, pro-democracy or pro-government viewpoints, it has now evolved, he says, especially as the protests have turned violent.
  
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• Metrolinx adding dozens of new GO train trips in GTA

  15-08-2019 16:26 via cbc.ca
  Metrolinx says it is adding dozens of new GO train trips in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area to increase rush-hour, mid-day and evening availability.
  
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• TIFF guest speakers include Ron Howard; TV lineup includes 'Mrs. Fletcher'

  15-08-2019 16:25
  Director Ron Howard will be among the guest speakers at next month's Toronto International Film Festival, which will also feature the world premieres of TV series starring Kathryn Hahn, Rosario Dawson and Jessica Biel.
  
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• Triples Explore the Toronto Streets in New "Long Life" Video - Exclaim!

  15-08-2019 16:08 via exclaim.ca
  Triples Explore the Toronto Streets in New "Long Life" Video  Exclaim!Sister rock duo Triples — aka Toronto's Eva and Madeline Link — are gearing up to release their full-length debut, Big Time, on Art of the U...
  
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