Sources: CTV
IQAir ranks Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as having the worst air quality among major cities worldwide as smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario reaches the city, prompting the Canadian environment ministry to advise residents to remain indoors. 2026-07-15
Two people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2026-07-11
Four people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack after a person drives a sedan onto a pedestrian walkway on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2025-04-15
A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. 2024-10-4
Ontario reports Canada's first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Toronto. 2021-02-7
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces that Toronto and the Peel Region will be placed in a "lockdown" tier, meaning that most non-essential businesses will be closed and non-essential retail stores and food establishments will be limited to takeout and curbside pick-up or delivery. These new measures will begin on November 23. 2020-11-20
A 17-year-old boy is arrested and charged with first-degree murder after stabbing two women, one of them fatally, at a massage parlor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2020-02-24
A mass shooting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, occurs, leaving two people dead and 13 others injured. The shooter is found dead nearby after exchanging gunfire with police and fleeing. 2018-07-22
Five are shot in Toronto, Ontario, in a neighbourhood with children around playing, two critically and one in life-threatening condition, having been shot by the police. Four suspects detained. 2015-04-16
Ontario Superior Court of Justice rules that Toronto mayor Rob Ford breached Ontario’s conflict of interest law and orders him to remove from office. 2012-11-26