A container carrying gold and other “high value” items worth at least $20 million Canadian (more than $14.8 million U.S.), was stolen Monday from Toronto’s Pearson Airport, police said.
The cargo arrived in an aircraft early in the evening, Peel Regional Police inspector Stephen Duivesteyn told reporters on Thursday. The container was then unloaded and transported to a holding facility, in accordance with the airport’s standard procedures for air cargo.
Sometime after this, the roughly five square-foot container was “removed by illegal means” and reported missing to the police shortly afterward.
“The container contained a high value shipment,” Inspector Duivesteyn said. “It did contain gold, but was not exclusive to gold, and contained other items of monetary value.”
Peel Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn briefed the media about the theft at Pearson International Airport on April 20, 2023.
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Police weren’t able to confirm the cargo’s final destination, nor if the theft was related to organized crime or professional thieves. They also weren’t sure if the gold is still in the country.
Inspector Duivesteyn emphasized that while this sort of heist is “very rare,” it is an isolated incident that poses no ongoing threat to public safety. Operations at Pearson would continue to run normally, he said.
“The GTAA wishes to clarify that thieves accessed the public side of a warehouse that is leased to a third party, outside of our primary security line. This did not involve access to Toronto Pearson itself and did not pose a threat to passengers or GTAA staff,” the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which operates Pearson, said in a statement to CBS News.
In 1953, 10 boxes of gold bars on their way to Montreal vanished from Pearson (then Malton Airport) in a heist that has never been solved, according to the Toronto Star.
Eighty years later, Duivesteyn seemed determined not to let history repeat itself.
“Our goal right now is to solve this theft,” he assured reporters. “Our team is assembled. They are working diligently on this case.”
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The mayor of Canada’s largest city has stepped down after acknowledging he had an affair with a former staffer.
Toronto Mayor John Tory said at a late Friday night news conference that he developed a relationship with an employee in his office.
The 68-year-old was known as a straight-laced, buttoned-down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.
Toronto Mayor John Tory steps down as mayor after revealing that he had an affair with an employee who was part of his staff at City Hall in Toronto. Feb. 10, 2023.
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“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part,” Tory said after the Toronto Star reported on the affair.
“It came at a time when Barb, my wife of 40-plus years and I were enduring many lengthy periods apart while I carried out my responsibilities during the pandemic,” he said.
“As a result, I have decided I will step down as mayor so I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes and to do the work of rebuilding the trust of my family.”
Tory was first elected mayor in 2014, in part on a promise to restore respectability to the office after the turbulent term of Ford. Tory recently won a third term.
Rob Ford’s four-year tenure as mayor of Canada’s largest city was marred by his drinking and crack cocaine use. He later died from a rare form of cancer.
Tory said he is “deeply sorry” to the people of Toronto.
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Canadian police have identified the Toronto man who was fatally stabbed last month, allegedly by a group of eight teenage girls. Toronto Police named him as 59-year-old Ken Lee and released few other details. Police previously said the man had moved into the city’s shelter system in recent months.
Police said Lee died in hospital after he was allegedly swarmed and stabbed by a group of eight teenage girls in mid-December. Three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds and two 16-year-olds are facing second-degree murder charges.
Police have said they believed the teens congregated after meeting on social media and are from homes across the Greater Toronto Area. They said three had previous interactions with police, while five others did not. Canadian authorities can’t identify them because they’re minors. One was granted bail last month, while the rest await hearings.
Investigators have said they think the girls were trying to take a bottle of alcohol from the man. They also said the same girls got into an altercation earlier that night, taking part in a “swarming,” which is unheard of among girls, Toronto Police Sgt. Terry Browne said last month.
For a time decades ago in Toronto, young teen boys would swarm people as they tried to steal Dr. Martens boots or Air Jordan shoes, but the crimes faded away, he said.
“Has this happened recently that we are not aware of? Have people been posting this stuff online that we weren’t aware of?” Browne said. “It’s something that we are going to try to find out.”
Browne said last month that police spoke to the parents of the teens.
“I can tell you it was a shock to find out that their children were involved in an event like this,” he said.
Canadian authorities can’t release the girls’ names by law because they’re underage.
“I’ve been in policing for almost 35 years and you think you’ve seen it all,” Browne said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Anyone who isn’t shocked with hearing something like this has clearly just thrown in the towel and just said that anything is possible in this world. Eight young girls and most under the age of 16. If this isn’t alarming and shocking to everyone, then we’re all in trouble quite frankly.”
According to statistics released by the Toronto Police Service, the city reported 70 homicides in 2022, including 17 stabbing deaths.
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Olympic figure skater Tessa Virtue has revealed that she is engaged to Toronto Maple Leafs’ defenceman Morgan Rielly.
She made the announcement on the Without Losing Your Cool podcast posted online Tuesday.
The now-retired three-time Olympic gold medalist told podcast host Shantelle Bisson that she met Rielly through mutual friends.
The official announcement came a few days after Virtue posted a photo on Instagram of her and Rielly with the caption “So long 2022 … you were a special one.”
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Lalonde, who was hoping for his 14th victory on the long-running trivia game show, had amassed winnings of US$386,400 going into Tuesday’s show.
But the $24,000 he scored wasn’t enough to beat challenger Lloyd Sy, a graduate student in literature from Rockford, IL, whose final score was $24,490.
Lalonde is among only 16 contestants in the show’s history with winning streaks of at least 10 games, according to Andy Saunders, the Guelph, Ont.-based blogger behind “The Jeopardy! Fan.”
It’s not your imagination: “Jeopardy” streaks are getting longer.
Ray Lalonde, the Toronto-based scenic artist who’s won 11 games and counting, is just the latest in a new generation of trivia titans to take up residence on the Alex Trebek Stage.
After Thursday’s game, Lalonde had amassed US$311,500.
Consider also Mattea Roach, the 24-year-old Canadian “Jeopardy” phenom who won 23 straight games earlier this year, giving her the fifth-longest streak in the show’s history.
The two are among only 16 contestants in the show’s history with winning streaks of at least 10 games, said Andy Saunders, the Guelph, Ont.-based blogger behind “The Jeopardy! Fan.”
Of those 16, seven appeared on the show in 2021 or 2022, including Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio, who hold the second and third-longest streaks of all time.
Saunders has a theory as to why.
“The show lowered its barrier to entry,” he said.
Near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show’s producers began allowing would-be contestants to audition at any time, rather than only being able to take an entrance test a few days out of the year.
And for those who ace that initial test, the second round of auditions is now conducted via video call, Saunders said, rather than requiring quiz show hopefuls to travel to a major metropolitan centre to try out in person.
“There were a lot of people out there who are very good at ‘Jeopardy’ and just needed that extra nudge to try out, making it that little bit easier for them,” Saunders said.
A spokeswoman for “Jeopardy” did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the number of applicants has gone up in recent years, but Saunders said he’s eliminated some of the other possible explanations.
The show’s clues don’t seem to be any harder, he said, and the so-called super-champions use a variety of different strategies, so it’s not their style of play that’s giving them an edge.
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But whatever the explanation, Saunders said he enjoys the long streaks.
“I absolutely love watching excellent players do well,” he said.
Not only does it give you something to root for, but you also get to analyze the game in a slightly different way, Saunders said.
“You can definitely tell with the longer streaks that certain players are good in certain categories and not as much in others.”
It seems to be working for the show, he added: “The ratings are still going up whenever there’s a longer streak.”
TORONTO — Ian Tyson, the Canadian folk singer who wrote the modern standard “Four Strong Winds” as one half of Ian & Sylvia and helped influence such future superstars as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, died Thursday at age 89.
The native of Victoria, British Columbia, died at his ranch in southern Alberta following a series of health complications, his manager, Paul Mascioli, said.
Tyson was a part of the influential folk movement in Toronto with his first wife, Sylvia Tyson. But he was also seen as a throwback to more rustic times and devoted much of his life to living on his ranch and pursuing songs about the cowboy life.
“He put a lot of time and energy into his songwriting and felt his material very strongly, especially the whole cowboy lifestyle,″ Sylvia Tyson said of her former husband.
He was best known for the troubadour’s lament “Four Strong Winds” and its classic refrain about the life of a wanderer: “If the good times are all gone/Then I’m bound for movin’ on/I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way.”
Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings and Judy Collins were among the many performers who covered the song. Young included “Four Strong Winds” on his acclaimed “Comes a Time” album, released in 1978, and two years earlier performed the song at “The Last Waltz” concert staged by the Band to mark its farewell to live shows.
Tyson was born Sept. 25, 1933, to parents who emigrated from England. He attended private school and learned to play polo, then he discovered the rodeo.
After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, he hitchhiked to Toronto. He was swept up in the city’s burgeoning folk movement, where Canadians including Young, Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot played in hippie coffee houses in the bohemian Yorkville neighborhood.
Tyson soon met Sylvia Fricker and they began a relationship — onstage and off, moving to New York. Their debut album, “Ian & Sylvia,” in 1962 was a collection of mostly traditional songs. Their second album, 1964′s “Four Strong Winds,″ was the duo’s breakthrough, thanks in large part to its title track, one of the record’s only original compositions.
Married in 1964, the pair continued releasing new records with regularity. But as the popularity of folk waned, they moved to Nashville and began integrating country and rock into their music. In 1969, the Tysons formed the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird, which appeared with Janis Joplin, the Band and the Grateful Dead among others on the “Festival Express” tour across Canada in 1970, later the basis for a documentary released in 2004.
They had a child, Clay, in 1968 but the couple grew apart as their career began to stall in the ’70s. They divorced in 1975.
Tyson moved back to western Canada and returned to ranch life, training horses and cowboying in Pincher Creek, Alberta, 135 miles south of Calgary. These experiences increasingly filtered through his songwriting, particularly on 1983′s “Old Corrals and Sagebrush.″
In 1987, Tyson won a Juno Award for country male vocalist of the year and five years later he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame alongside Sylvia Tyson. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.
Despite damage to his voice resulting from a heart attack and surgery in 2015, Tyson continued to perform live concerts. But the heart problems returned and forced Tyson to cancel appearances in 2018.
He continued to play his guitar at home, though. “I think that’s the key to my hanging in there because you’ve gotta use it or lose it,″ he said in 2019.
Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages, flash flooding and canceled holiday plans Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.
Near whiteout conditions were reported in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, while flash flooding inundated communities across several Northeast states.
So far, at least 19 deaths related to the storm have been confirmed across the country. Of those, eight people died in weather-related crashes in Ohio, state highway patrol confirmed to CBS News Friday night, including four who were killed in a multi-car pileup involving around 50 vehicles on the Ohio Turnpike.
More than 200 million people were under a winter weather advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said. The weather service’s map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” forecasters said.
Rows of headstones at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery are blanketed by drifting snow Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Mandan, N.D.
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More than 5,800 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled by Friday night, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.
As of Friday night, power outages had left more than one million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage.us, which tracks utility reports. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility, ended its rolling blackouts Friday afternoon but continued to urge homes and businesses to conserve power. In Georgia, hundreds of people in Atlanta and northern parts of the state were without power and facing the possibility of sub-zero wind chills without heat.
In Buffalo, New York, the National Weather Service reported “zero mile” visibility and posted a video showing the whiteout conditions. The regional transportation authority said all flights at the Buffalo airport were canceled through Friday night.
So what does “zero mile” visibility look like? Well, here’s a spectacular view of our parking lot near the airport. Yes, there are cars parked just a few feet away.
Thousands of people were without power across Erie County. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced late Friday that 54 National Guard members were being deployed to Erie County “to assists residents, particularly those who have emergency medical appointments and need help traveling.”
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown urged people to stay home, and the NHL postponed the Buffalo Sabres’ home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Forecasters say a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard-like conditions, including heavy winds and snow. Blizzard warnings were in effect through Saturday for the Great Lakes.
“Some of the coldest air we’ve felt in a longtime in the Northeast will happen tomorrow (Saturday) morning, with temperatures feeling like they’re below zero,” Weather Channel meteorologist Chris Warren said.
A member of the media battles snow and ice as Lake Erie waters wash over the shoreline on Dec. 23, 2022 in Hamburg, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.
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The area could see 2 to 4 feet of snow through the weekend, National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Otto said. It comes just over a month after the area was pummeled by a storm that dumped a record 6 feet of snow in some areas.
Denver, also no stranger to winter storms, was the coldest it has been in 32 years on Thursday, when the temperature dropped to minus 24 in the morning at the airport.
The huge storm stretched from border to border and beyond. In Canada, WestJet canceled all flights Friday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, beginning at 9 a.m. And in Mexico, migrants waited near the U.S. border in unusually cold temperatures as they awaited a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that prevent many from seeking asylum.
“This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden warned Thursday in the Oval Office after a briefing from federal officials. “This is serious stuff.”
Storm flooding exacerbated by heavy winds inundated roads, homes and businesses in parts of New York City.
In Howard Beach, Queens, police officers trudged through knee-deep water to pull stranded motorists to safety in the morning.
In Rockaway Beach, Queens, bystander video posted by the Rockaway Times showed a man wading past submerged cars and debris to rescue a child from a flooded ground-floor apartment.
The city’s emergency management commissioner said the new moon, high tide and offshore winds made the flooding more severe.
Commissioner Zachary Iscol said fierce winds pushed water into New York Harbor and Jamaica Bay, adding about 3 feet to the mean tide flood surge.
The police department stationed emergency services trucks and other high-axle vehicles in flood-prone areas to facilitate rescues, Iscol said.
“They did do a number of rescues this morning,” Iscol said. “None of them were life-threatening. Most of them were folks who were trapped in vehicles.”
Long Island also got hit hard by rain, with enough water flooding the streets in some places to lift parked cars off the ground and cascade into basements.
“This is a difficult weather event. We needed to prepare not only for rain, but also tidal flooding that was made worse by the new moon, in addition to large amounts of wind offshore that was piling water into New York Harbor, in addition to Jamaica Bay, adding about three [feet] above mean tide flood surge,” said Zachary Iscol, New York City’s Emergency Management Commissioner.
The “next phase,” he warned, “is going to be a precipitous drop in temperature, going down to the low teens, single digits over the weekend.”
At least one person had to be rescued from a vehicle stranded in icy waters in Wells, Maine.
A water rescue by Captain Chabot of the Wells Police Department in Maine as a winter storm brought flooding to the coast on Dec. 23, 2022.
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“Please avoid the coastal roads right now,” tweeted the Wells Police Department, sharing video of crashing waves and flooding.
The cold also led to a high demand at homeless shelters, including in Detroit, where some shelters were at capacity Thursday as the temperature plummeted to single digits with negative windchills.
“We are not sending anyone back into this cold,” Aisha Morrell-Ferguson, a spokeswoman for COTS, a family-only shelter, told The Detroit News.
In Chicago, the Arctic blast brought below-zero temperatures with wind chills as low as minus 30 expected overnight, CBS Chicago reported. High temperatures Saturday won’t get out of the teens.
Arnida Edmonson clears snow from her car during the aftermath of the winter storm on Dec. 23, 2022, in Chicago.
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Emergency weather shelters in Portland, Oregon, called for volunteers amid high demand and staffing issues. An unprecedented number of people were seeking shelter in a region where thousands live outside, and many staff members were unable to make it to their shifts because of dangerous road conditions or illness, officials said.
Nearly 800 people slept at the city’s five emergency shelters on Thursday night, said Julie Sullivan-Springhetti, spokesperson for Multnomah County, which is home to Portland.
“The largest number of people that I’ve ever seen have come into shelter,” she said. “We are trying to get more support. We have the experts in charge, but this is for helping folks with meals, wheelchairs, getting them to the right spot.”
The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with wind chill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, National Weather Service meteorologist Ashton Robinson Cook said Thursday. Places like Des Moines, Iowa, will feel like minus 37 degrees, making it possible to suffer frostbite in less than five minutes.
As the storm sweeps the nation, a shortage of snowplow operators is impacting states from Oregon to Ohio, with transportation officials blaming low wages and a tight labor market. The shortfall could make roads less safe.
Street lights and snow blow in severe wind gusts during a massive winter storm affecting most of the USA., in Flint, Michigan, on Dec. 23, 2022.
More than 200 million people were under some form of winter weather advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said. The weather service’s map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” forecasters said in a statement Friday.
More than 3,900 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays. More than 458,000 homes and businesses were without power Friday morning.
The huge storm stretched from border to border. In Canada, WestJet canceled all flights Friday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, beginning at 9 a.m. And in Mexico, migrants waited near the U.S. border in unusually cold temperatures as they awaited a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that prevent many from seeking asylum.
“This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden warned Thursday in the Oval Office after a briefing from federal officials. “This is serious stuff.”
Travelers unload from cars Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022 at Terminal 1 of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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Forecasters say a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard-like conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
Among those with canceled flights was Ashley Sherrod, who planned to fly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Flint, Michigan, on Thursday afternoon. Sherrod was debating whether to drive or risk booking a Saturday flight that she worries will be canceled.
“My family is calling, they want me home for Christmas, but they want me to be safe, too,” said Sherrod, whose bag — including the Grinch pajamas she was planning to wear to a family party — was packed and ready by the door. “Christmas is starting to, for lack of a better word, suck.”
The cold also led to a high demand at homeless shelters, including in Detroit, where some shelters were at capacity Thursday as the temperature plummeted to single digits with negative windchills.
“We are not sending anyone back into this cold,” Aisha Morrell-Ferguson, a spokeswoman for COTS, a family-only shelter, told The Detroit News.
Rows of headstones at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery are blanketed by drifting snow Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Mandan, N.D. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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And in Portland, Oregon, officials opened four emergency shelters. In the city’s downtown, Steven Venus tried to get on a light-rail train to get out of the cold after huddling on the sidewalk overnight in below-zero temperatures.
“My toes were freezing off,” he said, a sleeping bag wrapped around his head, as he paused near a flimsy tent where another homeless person was taking shelter.
Courtney Dodds, a spokeswoman for the Union Gospel Mission, said teams from her organization had been going out to try to persuade people to seek shelter.
“It can be really easy for people to doze off and fall asleep and wind up losing their lives because of the cold weather,” she said.
The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with windchill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, National Weather Service meteorologist Ashton Robinson Cook said Thursday. Places like Des Moines, Iowa, will feel like minus 37 degrees, making it possible to suffer frostbite in less than five minutes.
As the storm sweeps the nation, a shortage of snowplow operators is impacting U.S. states from Oregon to Ohio, with transportation officials blaming low wages and a tight labor market. The shortfall could make roads less safe.
Meanwhile, in famously snowy Buffalo, New York, forecasters predicted a “once-in-a-generation storm” because of heavy lake-effect snow, wind gusts as high as 65 mph (105 kph), whiteouts and the potential for extensive power outages. Mayor Byron Brown urged people to stay home, and the NHL postponed the Buffalo Sabres’ home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The area could see 2 to 4 feet (0.6 to 1.2 meters) of snow through the weekend, National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Otto said.
Denver, also no stranger to winter storms, was the coldest it has been in 32 years on Thursday, when the temperature dropped to minus 24 in the morning at the airport.
TORONTO — Goals from Calle Jarnkrok and Mitchell Marner ignited the Toronto Maple Leafs late in the second period. They then survived a late-game scare to score a 4-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday afternoon.
In their final outing before the Christmas break, the Maple Leafs (21-7-6) increased their victory string at Scotiabank Arena to six games and a perfect 5-0 in December.
Only the Boston Bruins, who were scheduled to play the Winnipeg Jets later Thursday, have a better home record at 17-0-2 to the Maple Leafs’ 13-2-3.
The Flyers (11-16-7) arrived in Toronto with the second-worst record in the Eastern Conference.
But after the Maple Leafs built a 4-1 advantage, Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee scored 83 seconds apart to make it a one-goal game with 6:36 left in the third period.
Farabee missed an open net a couple of shifts after his goal.
Toronto buzzed around the visitors before a matinee crowd of 18,908, but Flyers goalie Carter Hart stopped the first 23 shots he faced.
The 24th shot, a Jarnkrok redirect from a Marner shot, finally beat Hart with 3:10 left in the second period. Pierre Engvall, playing in his 200th career game, recorded the secondary assist on Jarnkrok’s goal.
Marner slid a shot underneath Hart’s right pad 2:47 later for Toronto’s second goal, 13 seconds into a power play.
Michael Bunting kept the good vibrations moving by completing a William Nylander to Auston Matthews passing play for a two-goal lead.
Nylander hit the 20-goal mark in the third period before Frost tucked in a wrist shot on the next shift.
The Maple Leafs outshot their opponents 34-19. Toronto backup Ilya Samsonov made 16 saves to Hart’s 30.
Hart was on a personal five-game win streak. He foiled Marner on a short-handed breakaway early in the opening period.
The Flyers then skated the other way and turned Hart’s momentum-making save into a power play goal from defenseman Tony DeAngelo on a slapshot from the high slot.
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A group of eight teenage girls has been accused of fatally stabbing a 59-year-old man on a street in Ontario, Canada, in what police call a “swarming” attack.
The girls, aged between 13 and 16, were arrested shortly after the stabbing in downtown Toronto early Sunday. They each face a charge of second-degree murder, police said.
The girls, who were not identified because of their age, reportedly met through social media and gathered from various parts of the city. It’s unclear why they decided to meet that night and in that location. “A number of weapons” were recovered, police said at a press conference Tuesday.
“I wouldn’t describe them as a gang at this point, but what [is] alleged to have occurred that evening would be consistent with what we would call a swarming or swarming type behavior,” said Toronto Police Detective Sgt. Terry Browne.
There’s no evidence that the girls knew their alleged victim, who Browne said recently moved into the shelter system but had a “very supportive family” in the area.
“I wouldn’t necessarily call him homeless, maybe just recently on some hard luck,” he said. The man was not identified due to pending notification of the family.
Browne said the girls were first involved in a separate altercation around 10 p.m. on Saturday before moving on to their final alleged victim just after midnight.
The victim was talking with another person on a street corner when the girls approached him and attacked him, he told CBC News.
A woman residing at a local homeless shelter told the local news station that she was smoking a cigarette with the man outside of a shelter when the girls approached them and tried to take her alcohol. The man intervened, telling them to leave her alone, and they started to punch him repeatedly.
“He protected me,” she said of the man. “I think they stabbed his belly.”
Browne asked anyone who may have witnessed the attack or the altercation before to contact authorities.
“I think they would be easily identifiable because these two interactions involved what would be described as criminal behavior,” said Browne.
Three of the girls have had prior contact with police services, but the others have not, he said.
Their next court appearance has been set for Dec. 29.
TORONTO — Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police said Tuesday.
Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man in the citys downtown core early Sunday morning. Toronto Police said medics took the man to a hospital, where he died.
According to police, the eight girls were arrested near where the attack happened. Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 and two are 16.
Detective Sgt. Terry Browne of the Toronto Police Service Homicide Squad said investigators think the girls were trying to take a bottle of alcohol from the man.
“I’ve been in policing for almost 35 years and you think you’ve seen it all,” Browne said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Anyone who isn’t shocked with hearing something like this has clearly just thrown in the towel and just said that anything is possible in this world. Eight young girls and most under the age of 16. If this isn’t alarming and shocking to everyone, then we’re all in trouble quite frankly.”
Browne said the same girls got into an altercation earlier in the night in the area. He declined to release more details about that.
“They met each other through social media. They come from varying parts of the city,” Browne said said. “We don’t know how or why they met on that evening and why the destination was downtown Toronto. We don’t know how long they were acquainted with each other. I wouldn’t describe them as a gang at this point.”
Browne said they took part in a “swarming.” He declined to say if they videotaped it. He said they will look to see if there are similar attacks online.
“Maybe these were eight young women that wanted to make a name for themselves and see if they could become socially famous,” he said.
Police believe they all acted in concert.
“They are all equally culpable,” he said. “There is no doubt in our minds that they were all working as a singular entity in a swarming mob mentality when they chose to attack this man.”
He said a number of weapons were seized, but he declined to say what kind. He also said three of the girls had prior encounters with the police.
“It’s bizarre that they would all have hooked up together and found their way to downtown Toronto. Their primary residences are all over the place,” he said.
Browne said police spoke to the parents of the teens.
“I can tell you it was a shock to find out that their children were involved in an event like this,” he said.
Canadian authorities can’t release the girls’ names by law because they’re underage.
They have made their first court appearance and remain in custody. The next court appearance is Dec. 29.
Browne said the victim started living in Toronto’s shelter system in September. He said they haven’t been able to reach certain family members and until they do they won’t release his name.
“He does have a very supportive family in the area so I wouldn’t necessarily call him homeless. Maybe just recently on some hard luck,” he said.
Browne said they are asking anyone who saw the the group of teens that night to contact police.
He said 20 or 30 years ago in Toronto young teen boys would swarm others and try to steal Dr. Martens boots or Air Jordan shoes for a time but said that faded away.
“Has this happened recently that we are not aware of? Have people been posting this stuff online that we weren’t aware of?” he said. “It’s something that we are going to try to find out.”
University of Ottawa criminologist Michael Kempa said it could be related to the breakdown of socialization as well as parenting in a time of pandemic, noting parental substance abuse is way up. He also said it could be amplification of anti-social attitudes via social media, made worse by mis-dis-information.
TORONTO — A 73-year-old man shot and killed five people on several different floors of a suburban Toronto condominium building before police officers killed him, authorities said.
Police said the officer fatally shot the gunman inside the building, which is where the gunman lived and is in Vaughan, Ontario.
Police did not disclose a possible motive for the attack or release the names or ages of anyone who was killed, including the alleged assailant’s. But Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which gets involved when there is a death or serious injury involving police, said Monday that the attacker was 73.
SIU spokespeson Kristy Denette said police found the victims on different floors. She could not say whether they were killed inside of their units or at their doors.
Denette said the SIU wouldn’t release the attacker’s name because his family hadn’t agreed to it. She said he had a semiautomatic handgun and that investigators don’t believe he exchanged fire with the officer who killed him.
“Horrendous scene,” Chief James MacSween of the York Regional MacSween said late Sunday. “Six deceased. One of them is the subject. The other five are victims.”
One person who was shot by the attacker was hospitalized and was expected to survive, the chief said.
MacSween said he didn’t know whether the shooter lived at the condo building.
York Regional Police say officers were called to the Vaughan, Ontario condo for an active shooting around 7:20 p.m. Sunday.
Police evacuated the building on Sunday, but MacSween said there was no further threat to the community. Residents were allowed to return home early Monday.
Resident John Santoro said police went floor to floor to try to find out if anybody else was involved.
“When I opened my door, police were in the corridor. There were two officers right outside my door in the elevator lobby,” he said.
Mass shootings are rare in Canada, and Toronto has long prided itself as being one of the world’s safest big cities. Vaughan is just north of Toronto.
Canadians are nervous about anything that might indicate they are moving closer to the gun violence situation in the U.S., where mass shootings are common.
“Everybody is horrified,” Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca said. “To wake up to this news this morning or see it last night, we are in absolute shock. … This is something I never thought I would see here.”
A coming-of-age film set in Scarborough and an immigrant story that’s been a hit on the awards circuit are among the Toronto International Film Festival’s top selections of the year.
TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top Ten list includes Clement Virgo’s latest project “Brother,” based on David Chariandy’s novel about two Trinidadian-Canadian brothers growing up in 1990s Scarborough, a neighbourhood in Toronto.
Also making the list is “Black Ice,” by director Hubert Davis, a documentary that explores the role race played in hockey through a collection of first-hand accounts from players past and present.
Another pick related to identity is “Riceboy Sleeps,” based on Korean Canadian director Anthony Shim’s experiences growing up in British Columbia in the 1990s, which has picked up awards at film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver and Windsor, Ont.
TIFF says the Canada’s Top Ten selections will screen Jan. 26 to 29 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
It says the list is chosen by programmers in consultation with industry panellists, filmmakers and festival programmers from across Canada.
The other features that made the list are: “Cette Maison” by Miryam Charles, “Crimes of the Future” by David Cronenberg, “I Like Movies” by Chandler Levack, “Something You Said Last Night” by Luis De Filippis, “To Kill a Tiger” directed by Nisha Pahuja, “Rosie” by Gail Maurice, and “Viking” by Stéphane Lafleur.
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A sophisticated blend of historic and au courant, Toronto’s Yorkville district conjures many adjectives: cosmopolitan, vibrant, fashionable.
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New to the market is a two-bedroom, three-bathroom residence with clean-lined contemporary décor by Jeffrey Douglas Interiors, known for styles that capture modern simplicity and contemporary elegance. Custom built-ins throughout the residence enhance the functionality of the living space.
Beyond the double-door entry is a foyer that opens to a light-filled corner living room. A recessed tray ceiling tops the space, which is lined with floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors that open to a terrace with skyline views.
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The adjoining custom kitchen by Downsview features stainless-steel appliances, a marble backsplash and a center island with bar seating. The dining room sits off the other side of the living room. Light-toned floors unify the living spaces.
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Yorkville is a destination area known for its abundance of galleries, high-end boutiques and chic eateries. A mix of older Victorian homes and gardens add to its upscale charm.
Toronto Pearson International Airport is about 28 kilometers (17 miles) away from the Four Seasons.
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The Richard Wengle-designed home in the Sherwood Park area of Toronto combines a timeless details … [+] with leafy outdoor space.
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The leafy Toronto neighborhood of Sherwood Park takes its name from 40 acres of wooded parkland with walking paths. A 2.5-mile trail with wooden boardwalks winding through old-growth trees spans the natural area. Beech, oak and sugar maples form a sheltering canopy during the summer. Late in the year, they create a brilliant autumnal display.
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Nestled up against a ravine adjacent to the park is an executive home combining timeless elegance and a contemporary aesthetic. Created by Richard Wengle Architects, the custom luxury residence is a study in attention to detail, proportion and pragmatic design.
“There is no point in designing something beautiful that doesn’t work,” Wengle said in an interview published in the June issue of Dolce Magazine. “The flow and the functionality of the home are very important.”
The park-like property is nestled up against a ravine adjacent to Sherwood Park.
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That sensibility is evident in the Sherwood Park home, which features large open spaces for entertaining. A wide central hallway looks through from the front to the back of the house and accesses the library. An open-concept living room adjoins formal dining space.
Setting a refined tone are extensive millwork, wood floors and crown molding. Arch-topped glass doors and abundant windows bring in natural light.
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The center island kitchen flows into a breakfast/casual dining area with wine storage as well as a family room with a fireplace, walk-out terrace and catering kitchen.
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Four bedrooms spill off the second-floor landing. The primary bedroom has vaulted ceilings, a fireplace and a marble bathroom. There are four additional bathrooms.
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The natural limestone exterior on the front of the house gives way to red brick on the upper levels at the rear. Stone steps from the main floor terrace and barbecue center descend to a patio.
The Toronto Lab product section of Adidas’ store in Toronto Eaton Centre.
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Experiential retail is becoming ubiquitous across the United States, especially for athletic brands. In the last year, Champs Sports, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Wilson’s have created experiential stores. But, Canada, as a much smaller market, tends to get left behind when it comes to new and trending retail.
Adidas aims to fill that void with its new 13,000-square-foot location at the Toronto Eaton Centre. Beyond the wide selection of Adidas lifestyle and sports products, it features a lounge, community activation space, a Toronto shop with unique products inspired by the city, and multiple digital touchpoints for customers to learn more about the brand and its connection to Toronto.
Canadians want to interact with and experience brands, not just transact with them.
According to the 2022 Ayden Retail Report by KPMG, 67% of Canadians prefer to shop in a physical store, compared to the global average of 59%. The report also outlined that those consumers think stores need to be exciting to visit and offer more than goods and services. Adidas’ new store aims to meet that demand. “We hope to see more of these types of stores start to open across Canada,” said Alim Dhanji, President of Adidas Canada, adding that “for Adidas, an experiential retail model provides consumers with the opportunity to freely explore our wide range of products in a way that isn’t offered solely online or in-store.”
The kids section of Adidas’ Toronto Eaton Centre store featuring an interactive digital display.
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In addition to its in-store features, the store will host various events with musical performances and guest appearances and have pop-up events throughout the year. “In celebration of our store opening, we’ll be hosting a series of in-store workout classes led by Toronto-loved instructors, a shoe customization pop-up, and a World Cup activation ahead of the upcoming tournament this month,” shared Lesley Hawkins, VP of Retail at Adidas Canada. The company will communicate more details on these events over the coming weeks.
The demand appears to exceed the supply for experiential retail in Canada.
Product display in Adidas’ Toronto Eaton Centre store.
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Toronto, specifically, is a unique market. Although the Greater Toronto Area has close to seven million people, there are only a few critical retail shopping areas, most of which house traditional retail store experiences. And any experiential concepts that do exist are primarily produced by Canadian brands. For instance, in 2019, Canada Goose launched a no-inventory experience in Sherway Gardens that included various cold rooms with fake snow to test the product in the applicable climate. Lululemon also has an interactive store on Queen Street West that consists of a coffee shop, a co-working space, and various fitness classes.
Beyond that, there’s Stackt Market, which like London’s Boxpark, is built out of 120 shipping containers on 100,000 square feet of land and is a mix of shops, food, and community events. It quickly became a hot spot for Torontonians seeking a new weekend hangout or shopping venture. The success of Stackt and the few branded experiential concepts indicate the Adidas store will likely do well in the market.
Art on display in Adidas’ store in Toronto Eaton Centre.
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That said, contrary to other experiential concepts, Adidas has focused on designing and programming the store to the traits of the city. “Toronto is a multicultural hub filled with vibrancy across so many areas – arts, sports, fashion, design. Adidas has proudly been a part of the city for many years, building connections within its communities and working with local designers, artists, and athletes to collaborate on projects. We wanted the new space to feel even more personalized to the city and our pride being here,” shared Hawkins.
Although the brand hasn’t said where it would open stores next, it does plan to expand its physical footprint over the next four years. Canada has become a target market for many brands since the pandemic, with Reformation, Allbirds, and Alo Yoga all opening locations in the Toronto area over the last year. But the opportunity for experiential retail remains vast. So, perhaps Adidas’ new store will spark a wave of exciting and engaging retail concepts in the Canadian market.
TORONTO — Mariah Carey is setting course for Canada this yuletide season.
The pop superstar — and self-professed queen of Christmas — has announced plans to bring her Merry Christmas To All! concert revue to Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Dec. 11.
It’s one of only two dates Carey has planned over the holidays.
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Her second show takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 13.
Tickets for the Toronto show go on sale to the general public starting Friday at 10 a.m. ET.
In recent years, Carey has become synonymous with the holidays, helped by the reliable popularity of her 1994 perennial chart-topper “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and a number of televised Christmas specials.
Two people were taken into custody after authorities located and later disarmed a possible explosive device at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, police said.
At around 4 p.m. Saturday, a device was found on a bicycle parked near the airport’s island-side ferry terminal, according to the airport’s social media account. Located on an island along Lake Ontario near downtown Toronto, the airport is largely accessed by ferry or pedestrian tunnel.
The ferry terminal and tunnel were closed “out of an abundance of caution,” the airport said, as the bike was removed by police. Passengers at the terminal were later evacuated and two Air Canada flights were diverted to nearby Hamilton, according to the airport.
As police dealt with “a potential explosive device,” according to the Toronto Police Operations Centre, at least two buildings near the airport were evacuated and several side streets were closed.
A controlled detonation was then conducted later that evening, Toronto police said.
“The device has been disarmed and Toronto Police Services has concluded their investigation and released the site,” the airport stated.
Two “persons of interest” are in custody, Toronto police said. Authorities have not released any additional details on the type of device found.
Airport operations and flights are set to resume Sunday morning, according to the airport. Billy Bishop Airport is roughly 10 miles southeast of the city’s busiest airport, Toronto Pearson International (YYZ).
