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Crime in Toronto has been low in comparison to other major cities. In 2024, a ranking of 60 large cities by The Economist ranked Toronto as the 6th safest major city in the world, and the safest major city in North America. [ 1 ] In the same year, CEOWORLD magazine, which includes some major medium-sized cities, ranked Toronto as the 160th ...
Chinatown, Toronto (also known as Downtown Chinatown or West Chinatown) is a Chinese ethnic enclave located in the city's downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centred at the intersections of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West. The present neighbourhood was the result of the government expropriating Toronto's first Chinatown in ...
Several of its neighbourhoods, such as Long Branch, New Toronto, and Mimico, were villages independent of Etobicoke. Others, such as Claireville, Islington and Thistletown were former postal villages established when Etobicoke was an agrarian district. Others are residential subdivisions built after World War II as Toronto expanded.
May 16 Gawker reports a cellphone video that appears to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine and commenting on political issues. The video was believed to have been recorded late in 2012. Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle say they watched the video on May 3.
Mel Lastman Square. Van stopped. A vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The driver, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, targeted pedestrians, killing 11 [ n 1 ] and injuring 15, some critically. [ 2 ]
A mass shooting occurred on Danforth Avenue in the Greektown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the night of July 22, 2018. [ 5 ] Faisal Hussain killed two people and wounded thirteen using a Smith & Wesson M&P.40-calibre handgun. [ 2 ][ 3 ] He died by suicide after a shootout with Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers. [ 6 ]
Vietnam. Died. August 16, 1991 (aged 38) [1] Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cause of death. Gunshot wound (homicide) Asau "Johnny" Tran (1952/1953 – August 16, 1991) was the former ring-leader of a large Vietnamese mob in Toronto during the 1980s, until his death in 1991.
Ontario: 2 [n 1] 3 5: December 29, 2014 [41] Edmonton: Alberta: 9 [n 1] 0 9: January 1, 2015 [42] Calgary: Alberta: 1 6 7: April 16, 2015 [43] Toronto: Ontario: 0 5 5: August 4, 2015 [44] Toronto: Ontario: 2 3 5: January 22, 2016 [45] La Loche: Saskatchewan: 5 6 11: January 31, 2016 [46] Toronto: Ontario: 2 3 5: April 16, 2016 [47] Hamilton ...