Man stabbed in Carleton Village apartment building
A man has been stabbed inside a Carleton Village apartment building.
Toronto police say they were called to Davenport and Old Weston roads around 2:25 p.m. for reports of a stabbing in a building.
A man was located with stab wounds. He was taken to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
Police have not released a suspect description at this point.
More to come
RioCan shifts to annual rent increases in leases amid tight retail market
TORONTO — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust says limited retail space supply has allowed it to embed annual rent hikes in almost all of its new lease agreements.
The retail-focused real estate trust reported a retail occupancy rate of almost 99 per cent last quarter, consistent with a year earlier and longer-term trends.
The firm says the high costs of building new shopping centres, and the lack of suitable new land on which to build, means supply is expected to remain limited.
The result is rising rents, with
Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack
ROME (AP) — Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her.
Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be “ashamed” of herself.
Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.
“Deepfakes
Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege
NEW YORK (AP) — Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued and CEO on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.
The class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accuses the tech giant of copyright infringement and opens up a new front in the ongoing battle between the book community and developers of AI.
The plaintiffs allege that Zuckerberg and Meta “followed their well-known motto ‘move fast and break things’” by illegally drawing upon
The Presidential Physical Fitness Award is back as Trump revives annual fitness test in US schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — President on Tuesday revived the Presidential Physical Fitness Award as part of his push to return an annual physical fitness test to America’s schools.
The award is tied to the Presidential Fitness Test, which was a public-school fixture for decades but was phased out under President Barack Obama in favor of a program that minimized competition and focused on long-term health. Trump last summer to reestablish the fitness test, which was created in the 1950s.
“We’re bringing
‘Driving like maniacs’: Shocking video shows tow trucks barrel through active police scene in Mississauga
Peel Regional Police (PRP) have arrested and charged two Mississauga tow truck operators after a shocking incident caught on body cam, where two trucks believed to be racing to a collision scene lost control and plowed through an active police investigation late last year.
The footage — which police say shows the trucks speeding through residential streets, blowing stop signs and running red lights — was key to identifying the drivers. The video also captures the moment the trucks burst into the original crash site, with one slamming into a vehicle involved in
Sharp increase in suspected opioid-overdose related deaths over 4 days: Toronto Public Health
Toronto Public Health (TPH) issued a “drug alert” Tuesday, flagging five suspected opioid-overdose related deaths attended by paramedics between April 28 and May 1, 2026.
TPH says the average number of opioid overdose-related deaths for four-day periods over the past 12 weeks was two, so it has more than doubled.
All the incidents occurred outside of downtown, with three of the incidents in the same area in North York. Two happened at private homes and three of the
Toronto, GTA gas prices increasing 5 cents Wednesday, highest since 2022
Drivers across the Toronto region will face another massive jump at the pumps on Wednesday , as gas prices will rise 10 cents to 195.9 cents a litre at most stations.
CityNews’ historical data shows Greater Toronto Area (GTA) gas prices have surged from the mid‑160s in mid‑April to the high‑180s, and now to 195.9 cents per litre in early May. The last time drivers saw numbers this high was nearly four years
Bomb threats made against multiple Toronto schools: police
Toronto police say 15 schools throughout the city received bomb threats by phone on Tuesday from what they believe to be done by the same person.
Toronto police say 15 schools throughout the city received bomb threats by phone on Tuesday.
Police say the threats are believed to be from the same person.
Bruce Junior Public School and St. Augustine Seminary were evacuated, but police say all 15 schools “have been cleared” and students have now returned to their classes.
“We do not have the origin of the
Toronto Fire to provide update on blaze at Thorncliffe Park high‑rise
Toronto Fire Services provided an update Tuesday on the latest fire at 11 Thorncliffe Park Drive , where crews have been battling a stubborn blaze in the same condo complex that burned for weeks last year.
Firefighters were called to the high‑rise around 11:30 a.m. Monday morning, after flames were discovered on the seventh floor, burning inside the narrow wall cavity between 11 Thorncliffe Park Drive and the neighbouring tower at 21 Overlea Boulevard.
Fire Chief Jim Jessop and Kamal Gogna, the City