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An Eritrean festival in Toronto is delicensed hours after a clash with pro-government protestors hospitalizes nine people.
2023-08-5

Toronto reports a record of 1,069 cases in the past 24 hours.
2020-12-30

Three people are killed and two are injured after a crossbow attack in Scarborough, Toronto. A suspicious package was also found in another linked event.
2016-08-25

The North Korean (DPRK) supreme court convicts and sentences South Korea-born Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim to hard labor for life for trying to overthrow the DPRK and undermine the country's social system. Lim's relatives said he's traveled to North Korea more than 100 times since 1997, to help people, but not for any particular political purpose. Lim, from the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, has been in custody since February.
2015-12-16

Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and 5 crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.
2015-03-29

Moderate conservative John Tory is elected Mayor of Toronto, Ontario.
2014-10-27

A TTC bus collides with a hydraulic crane mounted on a construction truck on Lawrence Avenue Toronto, killing one and injuring thirteen, in the first such incident since the Russell Hill subway accident in 1995.
2011-08-30

Mostly peaceful protesters march through Toronto while a small amount of radicals smash shopfronts and burn police cars.
2010-06-26

The 36th G8 summit opens in Huntsville, Ontario and the 4th G20 summit is held in Toronto, Canada.
2010-06-25

An earthquake occurs 56 kilometres north-northeast of Ottawa, registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Slight damage was reported near the epicenter, and the tremor was felt in Sudbury, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State.
2010-06-23