A Toronto man is facing charges in connection with an alleged assault that took place in the Little India area of Toronto last week.

Police officers responded to a call for an assault in the the Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard Street East area around 10 p.m. on Aug. 7.

The victim and suspect reportedly got into a verbal altercation and the suspect allegedly assaulted the victim.

Police say the suspect and victim are known to each other.

Muhammad Yasin, 26, was arrested on Aug. 8 and charged

Ontario’s minister of natural resources says crews are making progress fighting wildfires, with dozens extinguished in the last two weeks and far fewer burning out of control.

Mike Harris says the wildfire season in terms of number of fires has not been too abnormal, but in terms of the area burned this year is “way surpassing” what has been seen in previous years.

He says Ontario has recorded its largest wildfire ever this year, at its peak spanning 3,500 square kilometres — about double the size of

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Kids Help Phone says there’s been a sharp increase in the number of requests for help coming from young people in the middle of the night, with an even larger surge expected this September when school starts.

The organization says overnight texting demand has jumped by nearly a quarter (24 per cent) so far compared to last year, and it’s launching an urgent fundraising appeal ahead of the back-to-school season

The Ontario Line was supposed to cost $10.9 billion to build when plans were first unveiled in 2019. By 2022, costs had nearly doubled to almost $20 billion and in June of this year, the estimated costs were at approximately $29 billion as per Metrolinx’s State of the Network report.

In a press conference about the completion of tunneling for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay was asked about the latest contract awarded for the Pape

Statistics Canada says tens of thousands of motorists crossed the Gordie Howe International Bridge into Canada over the first few days after it opened.

The long-anticipated bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit opened to traffic on July 27 after weeks of delay.

StatCan says preliminary inbound traffic figures show 18,900 Canadian resident return trips from the United States over the Gordie Howe bridge in its first five days of operation.

Over the same period, 18,100 U.S. residents crossed the bridge to

PEREIRA, Colombia (AP) — Search and rescue efforts resumed Tuesday in dozens of cities and towns in western Colombia after a powerful earthquake left over 3,000 missing, with many trapped under the debris.

Mayors and governors from Cali, Pereira, Choco and Manizalez said Tuesday at least 179 people had died in those four areas; the federal government, which last updated its estimates in the hours after the 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Monday, has said at least 111 died.

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