NORTH YORK – A young woman was transported to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre after allegedly being stabbed at a party at Annie’s Restaurant on Finch Ave. W. Police officers from 31 Division were called to 2300 Finch Ave. W. for a fight at the restaurant, where a number of young people had come together to [...]

REGENT PARK – Toronto Police officers from 51 Division along with the Emergency Task Force, Canine, and Drug Squad executed a few warrants in the Regent Park area of the city. The raid, which took place around 12:30am on March 16th, resulted in a couple of arrests including one at 124 River St. where a [...]

DOWNTOWN – A small kitchen fire was quickly put out by Toronto Fire Services on March 15th at 40 Gerrard Ave. The cause of the one alarm blaze was likely a pot on a stove. Some residents were evacuated while the building was cleared of smoke. One person did collapse during the ordeal and was [...]

SCARBOROUGH – Toronto Police are now looking for a man in connection to a death that took place  in the Terraview Learning Centre parking lot on 1641 Pharmacy Ave. just south of Hwy. 401. At around 3:00am emergency crews received a call that someone had been hit by a car in the lot. When they [...]

SCARBOROUGH – Toronto Police Officers from 41 Division are trying to piece together what exactly happened in the early hours of March 13th on Pharmacy Ave. just south of Hwy. 401. At around 3:00am they received a call that someone had been hit by a car in the Terraview Learning Centre parking lot. When emergency [...]

NORTH YORK – A man was taken to Sunnybrook Health Science Centre after being stabbed in the back in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. Toronto Police Officers from 31 Division arrived at 10 San Romano Way at around 10:00pm Friday and found a man in his 40′s in the lobby of the [...]

DANFORTH – An employee of the City of Toronto died early this morning after a garbage truck rollover on the ramp from Bloor St. E. to the DVP northbound. The accident occurred at around 5:30am Friday. Witnesses at the scene say that the truck may have lost control as it traveled down the ramp. The [...]

TORONTO – No less than 28 search warrants took place in the last couple of days in the Toronto area and Windsor in what was dubbed Project “Folkstone”. The result, thus far, is 250 criminal charges against 22 individuals for organized crime related offenses. The investigation has been ongoing for the past 7 months and [...]

MISSISSAUGA – Approximately 3500 uniformed personnel from all over Canada and some from the United States attended a service to honour the life of Const. Artem “James” Ochakovsky. The Peel Regional Police Officer died last week in a vehicle accident on Airport Rd. and Steeles Ave. after his cruiser collided with a vehicle and then [...]

WESTON – The 12-year-old girl who had been rushed to Sick Kids Hospital following yesterday’s tragic fire on Kemp Square has succumbed to her injuries. Britney  had been found in the home along with her father, Ken Einboden, who had ran upstairs in an attempt to rescue his daughter. Her baby sister, Kendra, and a [...]

WESTON – A 44-year-old man has died after a fire on Kemp Sq. ripped through his home. Ken Einboden had been sitting in his house with a friend on Sunday around 3:00pm when they smelled smoke. He handed his baby daughter, Kendra, to his friend and ran upstairs to rescue his other daughter, Britney. Neither [...]

TORONTO – It is perhaps the one single thing that bothers me the most about being a photojournalist- taking the last photo of an individual before (and sometimes after) he or she passes away. It has happened several times in the past, and I’m certain it will happen again. More troublesome to me is when [...]

BRAMPTON – A Peel Police officer has succumbed to his injuries after a dramatic crash in Brampton. Peel Region Police have identified the officer as 37-year-old Constable Artem “James” Otchakovski. He is survived by his wife and 3-year-old son. The officer collided with another vehicle and then smashed sideways into a pole. It happened at [...]

PORT LANDS – An individual was killed after a vehicle crashed violently against a parked truck on Villiers St. between Cherry St. and Don Roadway. Toronto Fire Services responded to reports of a vehicle on fire at around 11:00pm Sunday evening. When they arrived they found the car fully engulfed in flames. The driver had [...]

TORONTO – This was perhaps one of the busiest weeks for me out on the streets. From fatal vehicle crashes to serious stabbings it seems that the stars aligned in an odd way this past week for the unfortunate victims. It started out with a fatal accident on Hwy. 427 last Sunday, when a taxi [...]

NORTH YORK – A two-alarm blaze has destroyed a home and left an entire family devastated. The fire happened at 6 Versend Dr., in the York Mills Rd. and Victoria Park Ave. area. Toronto Fire Services were called to the address at around 1:00pm on Saturday. When they arrived they found flames shooting up through [...]

NORTH YORK – At around 10:30pm Friday evening Toronto Police and EMS received a call for a vehicle that had driven through the front doors of a building on Parkway Forest Dr. in the Don Mills Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E. area. Upon arrival they found a Nissan Altima smashed against one of the elevators [...]

YORK – A man was rushed to hospital early Saturday morning after being stabbed in the back on St. Clair Ave. W. near Oakwood. It appears that at around 2:30am a fight between several parties at a nearby bar spilled onto the street. One suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim in the [...]

by Cindy Smith (educationforthedrivingmasses.com) SCARBOROUGH – A high speed crash possibly linked to street racing killed a woman and injured several others in Toronto’s east end early Thursday morning. The crash happened on Pharmacy Avenue, south of St. Clair, near Florens Avenue (see map above) shortly after midnight. Toronto police report that the male driver [...]

SCARBOROUGH – A teenage girl has died early this morning after being ejected from a vehicle that crashed into a pole. The accident happened just after midnight on Thursday on Pharmacy Ave. and Florens Ave., just south of St. Clair Ave. E. It appears the vehicle was traveling northbound on Pharmacy Ave. when it crashed [...]

SCARBOROUGH – A female police officer from 41 Division was injured when a police cruiser crashed into a vehicle on Eglinton Ave. E. It happened at around 10:45pm on Tuesday evening at the intersection with Ionview Rd. near Kennedy Rd. An off-duty police officer was on the scene fairly quickly and called for EMS while [...]

SCARBOROUGH – The SIU (Special Investigative Unit) has been called in to deal with a crash that occurred around 1:00am on Monday at Lawrence Ave. E. and Pharmacy Ave. Up to seven people were transported to hospital- some with life-threatening injuries- after a collision involving six vehicles. Reports from the scene suggest that  a police [...]

ETOBICOKE – A taxi driver was killed early Sunday morning on Hwy. 427 southbound near Eglinton Ave. W. It appears the driver of the cab had pulled over to the side at around 4:00am and exited the vehicle. An SUV travelling southbound struck the taxi from behind which in turn hit the driver throwing him [...]

DANFORTH – Luckily no one was injured after a woman rolled over her vehicle in front of Earl Haig Jr. PS on Earl Haig Ave. at around 3:30pm. The sole occupant of the vehicle suffered only minor injuries and was treated at the scene. Children had just flooded the streets after being let out from [...]

NORTH YORK – Police officers from 31 Division were called late last night to a suspicious death at 20 Falstaff Ave. Upon arrival they discovered a man in his 20′s with apparent trauma to the body. It appears that two individuals were involved in an altercation of some sort sometime between 6pm and 7pm and [...]

DANFORTH – Three minors were taken into custody today after a failed robbery in the Coxwell Ave. and Gerrard St. E. area. The three youths attempted to rob a 20-year-old man at around 1:15pm. One of them was armed with a gun. After failing to obtain anything from the victim, the suspects fled towards a [...]

ANNEX – Toronto Fire Services battled a 3-alarm blaze late last night at 191 St. George St. which at one point had flames as high as 40ft. The apartment on the first floor became engulfed in flames shortly before 12:00am. Police were later alerted to the fact that there may have been an explosion in [...]

DOWNTOWN – Emergency crews were called today at around 10:30am to 13 Homewood Ave. near Carlton St. to find a woman in her 50′s suffering from stab wounds. They attempted to revive her but were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead at St. Michael’s Hospital. She’s believed to be the manager of a halfway home. [...]

NORTH YORK – Two men in their twenties were rushed to Sunnybrook Health Sciences at around 2am this morning after being shot near a complex on 10 Eddiestone Ave. Police say that a suspect fired at the two victims as they were exiting their ground floor unit. One of the victims suffered a gunshot wound [...]

SCARBOROUGH – A 69-year-old man has been murdered in a Scarborough rooming house early this morning. Officers from 41 Division along with EMS were called to Victoria Park Ave. just south of York Mills Rd. at around 4:30am and found the victim with multiple stab wounds to his abdomen. The victim was rushed to hospital [...]