Toronto police have arrested seven people — including five youths — after a teenager was stabbed in the Flemingdon Park area last weekend, following what investigators describe as a pair of escalating confrontations between two groups.

Police say officers were called to the neighbourhood, located in the Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East area, on May 10 after a male victim was stabbed during a second altercation involving several suspects.

, the victim and his friends were involved in a physical altercation with a group of suspects earlier in the day. Later

Premier Doug Ford is being sued by the Al Quds Committee for what they claim are defamatory statements he made in the lead-up to this year’s event last month.

The day before the March 14 event, the premier to say he had instructed the attorney general to file an injunction preventing the annual march from taking place, calling it “a breeding ground for hate and antisemitism.”

“Hate, violence and intimidation have no place on the streets of Canada, and our government will fight it however we

Education Minister Paul Calandra has denied a request to overturn a Catholic school board’s decision not to fly the Pride flag because he cannot interfere in denominational issues, even in boards under supervision.

Trustees at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board voted two years ago against allowing flags marking Pride and other events.

The board is now one of eight under provincial supervision for what Calandra has called financial mismanagement, and last fall Calandra directed it to change its flag policy to fly orange flags on National Day of Truth And Reconciliation

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The murder convictions and life sentence of were overturned Wednesday by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the court clerk at his trial suggested he was guilty, but the disgraced lawyer won’t be leaving prison any time soon.

Prosecutors say they plan to retry Murdaugh, which likely means there will be another for the case that because of the combination of money, power, Southern accents and treachery has become a true crime sensation with several streaming miniseries, best selling books and dozens

PARIS (AP) — Over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship were ordered to remain on board after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness, French authorities said Wednesday.

They dismissed any link to a deadly on another vessel that has put European health authorities on alert.

The Ambition was midway through a 14-night cruise from Belfast and Liverpool that was due to take in ports in northern Spain and along France’s Atlantic coast.

It reached Bordeaux on Tuesday evening, according to the operator

A 73-year-old man died after he crashed into a gravel pile while riding an e-bike in Pickering, Durham Regional Police said.

The collision occurred just after 3 p.m. on Monday in the area of Woodview Avenue, south of Finch Avenue.

Police say the 73-year-old man was travelling southbound on Woodview Avenue when he struck a gravel pile and was ejected from the e-bike. He was rushed to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and was later

delivered a double-shot of expansion news on Wednesday, announcing it is bringing women’s pro hockey to the distinctly different markets of Las Vegas and Hamilton, Ontario.

And in now growing to 11 teams, there’s one more addition still to come to make it an even dozen for a league preparing to .

The Las Vegas team was formally introduced at a news conference at the Vegas Golden Knights’ home arena Wednesday. Hamilton was to follow on Thursday, the PWHL said.

“There’s a

LONDON (AP) — Meta Platforms said Wednesday it’s rolling out an “incognito” mode for WhatsApp users to have private conversations with its AI chatbot, a move intended to ease about sensitive information that users share in chats.

The said in a blog post that incognito chat mode provides a way to have private, temporary conversations with Meta AI, its that’s been available on WhatsApp for a few years.

Messages will be processed in a “secure environment” that even Meta can’t access, won

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission said Wednesday it will ask all European Union nations to outlaw gay “conversion therapy” following a public campaign to ban the practice and just days before the annual Brussels Pride festival celebrating the LGTBQ+ community.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that “conversion practices” have “no place in our Union.” Increasing protections for LGTBQ+ citizens by the EU executive since she took office in 2019.

The EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights said in