🚑 Breaking & Incidents
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Mattress fire in North York high‑rise sends two to hospital. Fire crews responded just before 2 a.m. to 1420 Victoria Park and extinguished a burning mattress in the ninth‑floor corridor; paramedics took two people to hospital, one with serious non‑life‑threatening injuries and one with minor injuries. Toronto Fire said residents on the ninth floor were temporarily evacuated while smoke was ventilated; a similar unit fire at the same building was reported June 28.
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Yellow severe‑thunderstorm warning for Toronto with up to 50 mm forecast. Environment Canada updated a yellow warning just after 3 p.m. for Etobicoke through downtown Toronto, saying storms moving east at about 55 km/h could drop as much as 50 millimetres of rain and cause flash flooding and major visibility reductions.
🚨 Crime & Public Safety
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TTC operator violently assaulted at Wilson Station; suspect charged. TTC CEO Mandeep Lali said the operator was assaulted Wednesday evening, taken to hospital with non‑life‑threatening injuries and has since been released home; police arrested a suspect and charged them with assault with a weapon. Lali posted that the Toronto Police investigation is ongoing and called violence against TTC staff unacceptable.
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OPP seize roughly 1 kg fentanyl — about 10,000 street doses — near Owen Sound. Grey Bruce and OPP investigators stopped a vehicle on Highway 10 in Grey Highlands, arrested two people, and executed two search warrants that recovered just over one kilogram of suspected fentanyl, 8.4 g of methamphetamine, and $30,000 in suspected crime‑related property; police estimate the drugs’ street value at $250,850.
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Three Peel officers suspended in Project South probe have been cleared and returned to duty. Peel Regional Police said the three officers—never publicly named—were not arrested or charged and are no longer suspended; the statement came after York Regional Police announced arrests tied to the broader Project South anti‑corruption investigation.
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Quebec requires Ontario Class 1 drivers with under two years’ experience to pass a practical test. Quebec’s temporary rule means Ontario heavy‑truck drivers with less than two years’ experience must pass a road test before obtaining a Quebec licence, a response to recent serious truck crashes that provincial officials say prompted the measure.
🏈 Sports
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Hayley Wickenheiser departs Maple Leafs after eight seasons in front office. Wickenheiser said in an Instagram post Thursday that discussions with new general manager John Chayka made clear his leadership group “envisioned a different path”; she joined Toronto in August 2018, was promoted to assistant GM in July 2022, and was among several front‑office staff let go this week.
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Raptors put Kawhi Leonard trade on hold amid NBA investigation. Toronto announced it paused the proposed trade that would bring Leonard back after the NBA warned the team it would assume any risk from the league’s ongoing probe into the Los Angeles Clippers; the proposed package would have sent Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick and multiple picks to the Clippers for Leonard.
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Steve Sullivan named head coach of the Toronto Marlies. The Maple Leafs promoted John Gruden to the NHL staff and appointed 51‑year‑old Sullivan—who spent last season as a Leafs assistant and previously on the Marlies’ staff—as Marlies head coach; former Leafs defenceman Mark Giordano was also promoted to assistant coach.
