Toronto police say they are investigating after a motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries in a collision Saturday evening. Police said they were called at around 10:11 p.m. to the Eastern Avenue and Don Valley Parkway area for a report of a collision between a motorcycle and a vehicle. Investigators said a man, 24, was driving a […]
City conservation authorities are investigating and a cleanup is underway after a local community group sounded the alarm about waste from an industrial lot spilling into the East Don River Trail system.
TORONTO Two friends tried to protect each other from a gunman intent on revenge for a petty slight outside a crowded Toronto nightclub in 2017, Ontario Superior Court heard Thursday but both ended up being gunned down. The double tragedies, occurring just seconds apart after 3 a.m. that morning, show how suddenly lethal guns can be, prosecutors said, as they pressed Justice Peter Bawden to find one of the accused, Tanade Mohamed, guilty of second-degree murder. “How many cases do we have when someone intervened when the gun came out and it’s an unfortunate end?” Crown lawyer Anna Tenhouse told the court on Thursday. “We see innocent people getting shot all the time when a gun gets in the way.”
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The 12 best bike trails in Toronto
From the Beltline to Don Mills, Toronto’s ravines are great places to commune with nature on two wheels By Enzo DiMatteo
Enzo DiMatteo
June is Bike Month and to help get you in the right frame of mind for a post-pandemic spring – cycling does wonders for the brain – here’s a list of 12 of the most thrilling (and challenging) bike trails to get your ya-yas out in Toronto. Note to riders: some selections include multiple trails.
Beltline Trail (aka Kay Gardner Beltline Trail and York Beltline Trail)
We’ll start with an easy one. Most Torontonians are familiar with this trail that follows the old Beltline Railway that used to serve the Forest Hill and Moore Park areas of the city until the 1890s. That’s because a significant portion of it is named after Kay Gardner, the former Toronto councillor and community volunteer who envisioned the trail as “A place in the heart of the city to explore the city.”