Toronto Sun

`MY SON IS GONE!'

Man's anguished cry as victim's teenage killer sentenced to rehabilitative custody before being sent home

TREADING WATER

Bureaucrats at City Hall agonized over how the public and the press would react to news about its water meter woes, going so far as to hold mock interviews with staff who pretended to be real-life reporters, the Toronto Sun has learned. Details about...

MEMORY NOT GOLDEN

SPRINTING AHEAD

If you doubt the polls showing Brad Bradford overtaking Olivia Chow, just watch Chow. She's campaigning like someone who's behind. The desperation radiating from the Chow campaign grows by the day — wild claims, nothing but negativity. That's not...

ICY RECEPTION

An American security company with ties to Trump's deportation machine is about to start guarding Canada's tax office — and it beat out a Canadian veterans' institution by just $80,000. Allied Universal, a firm making tens of millions off ICE and other...

`HEAVY HEARTS'

The Canadian Armed Forces on Sunday night identified the four soldiers confirmed dead after a fire that also left dozens injured at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright east of Edmonton. The soldiers have been identified as Pte. Aidan Goulding, from North...

DITCH THE TAX

Can a little tax reform help bring hope back to Toronto? Daniel Steinfeld, president of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, thinks it could — and one of his targets, the land transfer tax, has become something of a villain during this month's...

YES TO CANADA?

If Albertans are to say yes to Canada come Monday, the rest of us must show them the country is worth saying yes to. We need to do the hard work of making Confederation live up to its full potential, because, for far too long, it hasn't done so. The...

Accio visions

Just in time for Halloween, kids and the young at heart. Budding wizards and witches who love using a wand or anyone else who's a fan of the fictional British wizard Harry Potter from the popular book and film series will likely flock to Harry Potter:...

`WHERE IS DADDY?'

EYE ON THE BALL?

Could improved vision be the big fix for Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who, when his game is on, seemingly can hit a baseball as far as the eye can see? When the face of the Blue Jays franchise struggles, as he did mightily in 2026, it sometimes felt as...

`BEYOND A HERO'

He may have died as a result of being shot, but this Toronto cop kept shooting to stop his attacker first. Even with a bullet entering his body that would kill him, Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto kept trying to eliminate the threat against him...

HE'LL NEVER `CALL ME DADDY'

Their little boy, Quintanni, was brutally beaten by his babysitter in the bathroom of a Toronto Children's Aid office. And then Shardanae Cousins-emily, 22, left the blood-soaked bathroom stall, hid his horrific wounds by covering his face with his...

DEI PAYDAY

BUCKLE UP

A downtown Oshawa museum has received nearly $3,000 in fines from the city for failing to address nuisance-related concerns. “If it was me, personally, I would have liked to have seen a compliance order instead, but apparently this has been going on...

THE CRYPTO KEEPER

Self-described “crypto king” Aiden Pleterski is playing lawyer at his longawaited trial where he's pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering. The self-represented 27-year-old in the cheap grey suit and running shoes is no Perry Mason — ask your...

GOOD COP, BAD COP?

Yet another high-ranking Toronto cop has been shockingly criminally charged. Insp. Michael Hayles, who has in the past asked drivers to “make the right choice” and “designate a sober driver,” has now been charged himself by his own service for alleged...

APPY DAYS

What's the difference between campaign software from California and Israel? It might depend on who you want to be Toronto's mayor. News articles by an online outlet, Canada's National Observer, have put the spotlight on the Victory App, a platform...

THIS STINKS!

They're trying to get the “ew” out of Kew Beach. A group of neighbours is using this month's municipal election to press for better infrastructure and waste management in Beaches-east York ward. That's a polite way of saying the entire city's poop...

ROGERS EMPIRE

In his role as president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Keith Pelley was already the most powerful person in Canadian sports. And now, with Rogers Communications officially in control of the gigantic sporting empire, that influence is...

TAKEN FOR A RIDE

When Premier Doug Ford called them Chinese spy cars earlier this year, some foolish people laughed. Now there's more evidence Ford was right and more reason why Prime Minister Mark Carney should reverse course. The idea that Chinese EVS could be...

`I FEEL SICK'

Just two years after being found not criminally responsible for the deadly stabbing of downtown law firm receptionist Julia Ferguson, Osman Osman is already out of a Toronto mental health hospital and living in supervised housing. And even more...

NEW FACES, SAME RESULT

John Chayka is swinging for the fences. Aggressively. Whether he's hitting them out of the park, whether they're long fly balls or whether he's striking out, that will be determined over this hockey season and the ones that come after that. Kirill...

KNIES KNOWING YOU

For the third time in the past four seasons, the Florida Panthers will play the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup. That's the prediction from here as another National Hockey League season is about to begin. The Panthers should win again, even if...

`DISGRACE & DISHONOUR'

In a stuffy courtroom on University Ave. in Toronto on an autumn Monday morning, a young cop will face the consequences of his alleged stupidity. Const. Elias Mouawad is expected to plead guilty to unlawfully using a police computer system and breach...

`DRIVING ME NUTS'

From his apartment, Craig Smith keeps hearing the noise as the loose manhole cover rattles under traffic. Every vehicle that drives by on Bloor St.: thunk-thunk. It's one noise for every wheel that runs over this manhole cover, down the street from...

MY BAD

Who knows for certain what made Vladimir Guerrero Jr. feel compelled to apologize to the fan base that he's always professed to be dear to him? Perhaps it was genuine contrition and recognition of the huge distraction and outrage his flippant remarks...

`PERFORM BETTER'

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is taking heat from former MLB stars such as Joey Votto, Vernon Wells and Josh Donaldson after controversial comments about living up to his contract created an outcry around the game on Wednesday. The emergence of Guerrero's...

`MY LITTLE GIRL WILL NEVER COME BACK'

Kenneth Law preyed upon the vulnerable, peddling poison that promised escape, denying them the time they needed to find another way forward. Now the 61-year-old sits in a prisoner's box in a Newmarket courtroom, convicted of assisting the suicides of...

`MASSACRE IN THE MAKING'

HATE IN A SMALL TOWN

As Yom Kippur was celebrated on Sunday night, shots were exchanged outside a synagogue in Belleville, leaving a police officer and the shooting suspect injured. The incident took place around 7 p.m. outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue during Yom...

WORLD OF HURT

The world woke up Sunday morning to intensified fighting between Ukraine and Russia, North Korea firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and the real possibility of war between the U.S. and Iran resuming. Also this week, the United Nations...

E-BUST

Weeks before the board of the Toronto Transit Commission hurried a report off the floor, in a transit yard in Philadelphia, the electric buses were on fire. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) had fought a losing battle with...

FORD BLURS LINES

Doug Ford really wants everyone to know that when he endorsed Olivia Chow the other day, it wasn't an endorsement. Ford had his office put out a statement to that effect late Thursday, about 32 hours after he made the original statement. It's a...

THE TEA LEAFS

If, for whatever reason you've wondered about Gavin Mckenna's office maturity, you're wasting time. Consider what the first pick in the 2026 National Hockey League draft had to say about playing with talented, longtime NHL veterans John Tavares and...

NEW DANCE PARTNER

‘ACTS OF BUTCHERY’

The Scarborough man found not criminally responsible last year of butchering his parents with a golf club no longer displays symptoms of schizophrenia and has been allowed accompanied passes outside of Whitby's Ontario Shores psychiatric...

GO BALLISTIC

OTTAWA — A video posted online depicting a group of girls assaulting a pair of elderly GO Transit passengers is sparking outrage — and according to the daughter of the elderly couple targeted in the video, Metrolinx staff responded with...

EUROPEAN VACATION?

$500G PET PROJECT ?

How do you spend half a million dollars fencing in a field? Shawn Allen thinks City Hall has a spending problem, and his first, best example is the new off-leash dog park at Lawrence Ave. E. and Starspray Blvd., east of Port Union Rd. He wants to be...

RELIVING THE `HORRORS'

There isn't an ounce of empathy from this sadistic, schoolgirl sex killer. For the fourth time in eight years, serial rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo is seeking parole. Next month, the man who now officially goes by the name Paul Teale will appear...

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF TERROR

For those of us who were in New York City that horrific day, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are never very far away. This abomination occurred 25 years ago Friday. A kid's ball game, a smiling cop or a fire truck racing past. It's the little things that...

BACK TO THE FUTURE?

LILLEY ✦ WARMINGTON ✦ PAPUCKOSKI ✦ EDITORIAL

THE REAL THREAT

It's not Donald Trump's map jokes or hockey memes that should worry Canadians. It's what he's signalling about trade. Sure, those posts are annoying. They get under your skin, which is why Trump posts them. What should really worry Canadians is when...

FIRE BUG

A man who appears to have a history of run-ins with the law now stands accused of deliberately setting vehicles ablaze at a member of parliament's Scarborough home last month. Toronto Police say the alleged arson unfolded at a house — later identified...

ON THE WRONG TRACK

The man who couldn't get slow-moving light rail to work properly in Ontario is now advising the Carney government on their Alto high-speed rail project. If ever there was a sign that the Alto project is destined for disaster, it's the decision to hire...

INTO THE SUNSET

The Snowbirds are perhaps the most enduring legacy in this county. “As exciting as it is to fly, the thing that I enjoy the most is traveling around with the guys and being part of this, meeting so many Canadians who have been impacted for 55 years,”...

`HARD TO IGNORE'

TALES FROM THE CRYPTO

The arrogance of the fallen self-proclaimed “Crypto King” knows no bounds. Free on bail, Durham Region's Aiden Pleterski was supposed to be in the downtown Toronto courtroom by 9 a.m. on Tuesday for an update on his case — he goes to trial before a...

HOW TO CURE A HANGOVER

Early struggles were inevitable after last year's magical run, but Schneider says Jays are awake and focused on making playoffs

MAXIMUM CARNAGE

It was a turn-back-the-clock day for Max Scherzer. The Blue Jays veteran right-hander and sure-thing future hall of famer reached back to his younger years for this one, throwing a season-high seven sterling innings of one-hit shutout ball in the Blue...

REALITY SHOW

`UNFORTUNATE'

The buses may be faster, but voters will go to the polls on Oct. 26 before they have all the facts on Rapidto. While city hall has been collecting data on TTC performance, traffic volumes and travel times on Bathurst and Dufferin Sts., in and around...

DEADLY DERELICTION

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly taking steps to fire two air traffic controllers who left work early before a fatal Air Canada jet collision at New York City's Laguardia Airport in March. Two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight...

FROM VLAD TO WORSE

In this sad summer of Blue Jays baseball, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., sat alone at the end of the dugout on Tuesday night, head down, as the rest of his teammates made their way down the hall to the clubhouse. Pretty soon, August will become September and...

WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

FORD V. TRUMP

LILLEY, WARMINGTON, KINSELLA, PASSIFIUME, ANDERSON & DANIELL ON TRADE WAR

WAR ZONE

The good news may be that President Donald Trump has acknowledged that not only is Canada not the 51st state, but not a state at all. For those who savour free trade and capitalism, the bad news may be that Canadian taxpayers' economic partner is...

NO DEAL!

READY TO BLOW

Recent well-publicized fires in Toronto have been caused by damaged or overcharged batteries in devices like e-bikes and e-scooters. “The fundamental problem is that these devices are being used in ways they were never designed for,” Randy Narine,...

DYNAMITE!

It has been nearly eight years since BTS played three sold-out shows in Hamilton. The K-pop group is set to bring its Arirang World Tour to Toronto's Rogers Stadium. In North York, a strip of Yonge St., from North York Blvd. to Finch Ave., has been...

A FAIL OF TWO CITIES

The priority of city government in Toronto's Beaches-east York ward does not seem to be on children, their families or taxpaying homeowners. It seems it's more about servicing drug addicts and their suppliers. When it comes to ending drug sales and...

CRO$$ CHECK

This is not quite his element. Toronto hockey centre John Tavares usually meets the media in his Maple Leafs blue and white — but on this summer day, he's in the hallway of the federal Tax Court, dressed in a smart grey windowpane suit as he fights...

DOUBLE WHAMMY

SOPHIE FEVER

Crunching the numbers on crime

Critics of the police and tougher bail and sentencing laws to combat violent crime have two approaches to the release of annual statistics on crime. But they both end up in the same place. If crime is up, they argue the criminal justice system isn't...

CURBED

The Ontario Court of Appeal hasn't just overturned the ridiculous court ruling claiming a Charter right to bike lanes, it has excoriated the judge and the ruling. In a unanimous decision published Friday, the three judges of the appeal court have...

CLOSE CALL

This was as close as possible to there being the need for another cop funeral. In fact, if not for the quick action of Toronto Police officers responding to one of their own being shot in the thigh — one of whom has only been on the job about four...

THE BLAME TRAIN

How does a subway project's price tag increase from $10.9 billion to more than three times that amount at more than $34 billion? That's a legitimate question many are asking in the wake of news that the cost of the Ontario Line in Toronto appears to...

YER OUT ... OF YOUR MINDS!

If you were left confused as to why the Boston Red Sox were credited with a run after the Blue Jays turned a double play to end the seventh inning on Monday night, you most certainly were not alone. And what didn't help was a review that lasted 14...

LA DOLCE VITA

OTTAWA — With the Trump administration's deadline to slap Canada with 50% tariffs looming a little over a week away, Prime Minister Mark Carney is spending the week in Italy on vacation. In a note sent to the Parliamentary Press Gallery on Saturday,...

MONEY BALL

Miss Universe Canada was called out by one of the pageant's former winners after two of its contestants wore Indigenous regalia during the costume portion of the competition last week, APTN News reported. According to the Indigenous news network, one...

DUAL HEADACHE

Britain's government has found a lucrative new revenue stream — and it's hitting Canadians and ex-pats in this country hard in the wallet. I have dual citizenship in Canada and the United Kingdom. Like thousands of other ex-pats, I discovered that...

`OUT OF CONTROL'

It really has become nasty in Toronto and the GTA! How many close calls and wake-up calls are needed before somebody starts admitting this! On the same day on which it could have been necessary to plan two more cop funerals comes information that for...

WHAT'S WRONG?

Hard to fully grasp what the Blue Jays saw in right-hander Jameson Taillon, who was designated for assignment by the Chicago Cubs and then shipped out of town for what essentially amounted to nothing or very little. In his debut with the Jays on...