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Although each event may be unique, the daughter of an Edmonton woman who police claim was the victim of “intimate partner crime” says she believes more needs to be discussed about violence against women and men and that she would like to discover more resources and support for those who need it. ” Reach out to your home, … anyone who can assist you”, 20-year-old Abigail Robson told Global News on Tuesday. On Dec. 30, the body of Robson’s mummy was found on a river in Edmonton and officers began to investigate. On Sunday, the Edmonton Police Service announced that a person had been charged in connection with the death of 43-year-old Ashley Burke, Robson’s family. ” Burke’s death is considered an intimate partner homicide”, police said in a news release. Even though she understands why officers used the word, Robson claimed that individuals have misinterpreted what the homicide’s description means. ” It was domestic violence, … or intimate partner homicide, … ( but ) it wasn’t a relationship by any means”, Robson said of the fact that her mother and the man accused of killing her knew one another. The incidents of Cora-Lee Smith and her father Bradford Downey in Nova Scotia, as well as Ania Wardzala-Kaminski and her father Stanislaw Wardzala-Kaminski and her father Stanislaw Wardzala in Calgary, are both reported by police in those places as instances of intimate partner violence. Robson said she was even saddened to learn of other recent deaths that officers in those locations have reported as intimate partner crimes. 2: 07
Advocates calling for changes to the legal system to better handle domestic violence in Canada” It’s like the last thing I can do for my mom,” Robson said, explaining why she wanted to speak to the media about what happened to her family and the issue of violence against women. The Strathcona Shelter Society, which runs a hospital called A Safe Place to provide women and children with shelter and protection in the Edmonton area, is led by Karen Kadatz, who tried her best to assist her in many ways. She compared the new homicides that have caused national attention in Canada to “our hearts break.” ” We send our condolences to all the individuals,” Kadatz said. Organizations like hers were especially active during the holidays. ” We were whole every day”, she said. Due to increased substance use, family dynamics, and economic stress, the holidays are quite a difficult time. Kadatz, who frequently spoke about intimate partner violence, said she thinks talking about the issue more openly is important when it comes to addressing it for the patients, their loved ones, and nation as a whole.” It’s so hard to say, I’m actually experiencing this happening,” she said. How could someone who cares about me or loves me be thus frightful or unsafe? she explained. ” Actually, trust that feeling. Visit out and seek some assistance,” advised Kazatz, noting that some people hesitant to visit homes because they believe their families will respond with” I told you so.” We truly make an effort to assure them that it’s not your problem. You can’t take responsibility for the abuse, she said, adding that staying with a family member is not always a safe place in situations involving intimate partner violence. ” Family users are also susceptible, so that’s why tents exist. We just hope persons, if they’re worried about themselves or each other, respect that feeling. Give us a call, and we can assist you.” She said her mother had a history of struggle with emotional health and substance abuse, but they have since grown closer.” ” I was able to include more sympathy for the problems she went through”, she explained. ” She was a very kindhearted, sweet woman” .We’re from the East Coast, … ( and my mom had ) that East Coast kind of personality. No matter what she was going through, she was always so inviting and cozy to people. Robson said her family has family in Edmonton, but the majority of the family is in Nova Scotia, where she will be laid to rest. She claimed that she inherited her mother’s romantic qualities, which will help preserve her remembrance.” I collected everything she had given me,… every bday card,” Robinson said, adding that one of her most prized possessions is a bracelet from her mother because it was the same gift she gave her mother one Christmas.” It kind of just illustrates how close we were. It shows me how many hearts she did touch, she said, adding that she has been heartened by people reaching out to her since her mother died and telling her that Burke had a positive impact on her life. On Jan. 3, 31-year-old Daniel Boothman was arrested by police and charged with second-degree murder in connection with Burke’s death. Police have not disclosed the cause of death, citing” investigative purposes. With files from Global News ‘ Jasmine King’s files If you are in immediate danger, call 911.1: 57
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The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.A laptop, cellphone and watch are still under review nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself just before the truck blew up.A review of Livelsberger’s searches through ChatGPT indicate he was looking for information on explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition would travel and whether fireworks were legal in Arizona.Livelsberger, an Army Green Beret who deployed twice to Afghanistan and lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, left notes saying the explosion was a stunt meant to be a “ wake up call ” for the nation’s troubles, officials said last week.He left cellphone notes saying he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”1:24
Tesla Cybertruck explosion sparks investigation into possible terrorist actThe explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the Trump International Hotel. Authorities said that Livelsberger acted alone.Livelsberger’s letters touched on political grievances, societal problems and domestic and international issues, including the war in Ukraine. He wrote that the U.S. was “terminally ill and headed toward collapse.”Investigators had been trying to determine if Livelsberger wanted to make a political point, given the Tesla and the hotel bearing the president-elect’s name.Livelsberger harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump, law enforcement officials said. In one of the notes he left, he said the country needed to “rally around” him and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.&copy 2025 The Canadian Press 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says he will attend former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9.Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. He was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981.A public funeral will take place Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington.The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau will attend the funeral to deliver condolences on behalf of Canadians and reaffirm the close ties between the two countries.In a post on X, the prime minister said Friday that Carter worked to make the world a better place.Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Tuesday night and again Wednesday. U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at his funeral Thursday.2:12
Jimmy Carter’s state funeral begins in Georgia hometownCarter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus Tuesday morning, accompanied by his children and extended family. Special Air Mission 39 departed Dobbins Air Reserve Base north of Atlanta and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.A motorcade carried the casket into Washington for a final journey to the Capitol, where members of Congress will pay their respects.In Georgia, eight military pallbearers held Carter’s casket as cannons fired on the tarmac nearby. They carried it to a vehicle that lifted it to the passenger compartment of the aircraft, the iconic blue and white Boeing 747 variant that is known as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board. Carter never traveled as president on the jet, which first flew as Air Force One in 1990 with President George H.W. Bush.The scene repeated outside Washington. The former president’s casket was removed from the plane, cannons fired and a military band played. A hearse emblazoned with the seal of the president joined a motorcade that steered toward Washington.
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The joint services military honor guard stand around the casket of former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool).

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The casket containing the remains of former President Jimmy Carter moves on Constitution Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol on a horse-drawn caisson in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool).

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A bipartisan delegation of members of Congress were led into the Capitol rotunda by Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Democrats who represent Carter’s home state.Three of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices also were present. Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan stood next to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in the rotunda.The U.S. Army Band Brass Quintet played as people awaited the casket’s arrival.There are the familiar rituals that follow a president’s death — the Air Force ride back to the Beltway, a military honor guard carrying a flag-draped casket up the Capitol steps, the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda.There also will be symbolism unique to Carter. As he was carried from his presidential center, a military band played hymns — “Amazing Grace” and “Blessed Assurance” for the outspoken Baptist evangelical who called himself a “born-again Christian” when he sought and won the presidency in 1976. In Washington, his hearse stopped at the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his remains were transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for the rest of his trip to the Capitol. The location nods to Carter’s place as the lone U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become commander in chief.All of the pomp carries some irony for the Democrat who went from his family peanut warehouse to the Governor’s Mansion and eventually the White House. Carter won the presidency as the smiling Southerner and technocratic engineer who promised to change the ways of Washington — and eschewed many of those unwritten rules when he got there.3:32
Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100From 1977 to 1981, Carter was Washington’s highest-ranking resident. But he never mastered it.“He could be prickly and a not very appealing personality” in a town that thrives on relationships, said biographer Jonathan Alter, describing a president who struggled with schmoozing lawmakers and reporters.Carter often flouted the ceremonial trappings that have been on display in Georgia and will continue in Washington.As president, he wanted to keep the Marine Band from playing “Hail to the Chief,” thinking it elevated the president too much. His advisers convinced him to accept it as part of the job. The song played Saturday as he arrived at his presidential center after a motorcade through his hometown of Plains and past his boyhood farm. It played again as his remains were carried out on their way to Washington.He also never used his full name, James Earl Carter Jr., even taking the oath of office. His full name was printed on memorial cards given to all mourners who paid their respects in Atlanta.He once addressed the nation from the White House residence wearing a cardigan, now on display at his museum and library. His remains now rest in a wooden casket being carried and guarded by military pallbearers in their impeccable dress uniforms.2:50
Jimmy Carter left ‘lasting impact,’ residents say as procession rolls through GeorgiaAs Carter’s remains left Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump criticized the late former president during a news conference in Florida for ceding control of the Panama Canal to its home country.Pressed on if criticism of Carter was appropriate during the solemn funeral rites, Trump responded, “I liked him as a man. I disagreed with his policies. He thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing.”“I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death,” he added, even though he had first mentioned it unprompted.—With additional files from the Associated Press 

It has been a difficult stretch for Saskatoon’s Purrfect Cup Cat Café over the last month when it comes to vandalism.On Monday, the café had their windows smashed for the second time in 30 days.Sydney Sylvester is the owner of the café. She said she doesn’t understand why this keeps happening.“Exactly like last time – we come in on a day where we’re closed to work with the cats and we pull up to the parking spot out front and I see the window (smashed),” Sylvester said.“I just started crying. Coming back to this for a second time in two weeks is so frustrating.”Security footage provided to Global News shows a suspect kicking the front window of the shop before moving on. The video can be viewed at the top of the page.“At this point it feels targeted now,” Sylvester explained. “Same window, same spot, and it looks like the same person.”The vandalism is sparking more discussion about downtown safety in Saskatoon. Sylvester said it is starting to impact their ability to provide a good experience.“It affects our ability to expand and provide more things for our cats,” Sylvester said. “So, it’s a big setback, especially for a small business.”In a statement to Global News, Downtown Saskatoon executive director Shawna Nelson said more focus needs to be placed on policing the area to ensure it’s served to capacity.“We are equally disappointed for this business owner — the same crime twice in a row is more than a frustrating business expense,” Nelson said. “With the Fire Community Support + Alternative Response Officers programs not operating at full capacity in staff-count nor hours, the Downtown business community is not being serviced to capacity.“Downtown Saskatoon has its issues, just like other cities: we need more focus on policing the area.”Saskatoon police say reports of vandalism are higher downtown but they’re working to allocate more resources to the area.“We have seen an increase in social disorder calls across the city. There were nearly 72,000 calls for service in that category for 2024,” Tonya Gresty, with the Saskatoon police said.“8,000 of those calls were specific to the downtown core. Vandalism is something that we’re paying attention to and having our resources focus on for sure.”Following the previous vandalism, the café received an outpouring of community support and donations. It ended up being enough to cover the cost of the window and then some.Sylvester hopes the kindness continues and the hate stops.“We have started a GoFundMe campaign because we are trying to raise $25,000 to get some more funding so that we can move, so that we can fund renovations and a bigger space,” she said. “And that’s going really well.”&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

A middle-aged man died in the emergency room at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre (HSC) on Tuesday morning, according to hospital officials.HSC chief operating officer Dr. Shawn Young would not reveal what medical emergency caused the man’s death, citing patient privacy laws, but did say the man was a low-acuity patient, and was waiting in the ER for a long time.“Those waits can be quite long,” said Young. “When we look at those patients that wait the longest, those 90th percentiles, they can be up to 10 hours and longer, and this patient would have fit that.”Young said the patient was brought in by an ambulance shortly after midnight, triaged, and had some assessments done. Around 8 a.m. his conditioned worsened, and he was taken to a resuscitation room. He was pronounced dead soon after.The patient’s death will be investigated, which will include a review of his chart, assessments, and any video footage or underlying health conditions.Young said the emergency room averaged 100 patients over the past 24 hours, including a number of high-acuity patients. He added the hospital was struggling to move patients out of the hospital, resulting in backups.“We had a number of admitted patients in the department, and we weren’t able to get them into beds in the facility because the patients within HSC we needed to get out — we have not been able to successfully get them back out to their communities or their residences in a timely manner.”Michael Herman, an Ottawa doctor and member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, said this is often an issue that results in long wait times in ERs.“The real driver is in the inability of emergency patients to be flown through the department and be dispositioned into the hospital, or wherever else they need to be,” said Herman.Young said he did not believe staffing levels in the emergency room were a factor in the patient’s death, and the hospital had initiated multiple surge protocols over the past 24 hours to improve patient flow. He added wait times have been slowly improving.“They’re not where we want them to be — it’s going to be a long time before we get them to where we want them to be — but they have been improving over the last year,” said Young.In February 2023, a patient died waiting in a hallway at HSC after being triaged. A review found there was a surge of critically ill patients in the emergency department at the time of his death.In November 2023 a patient died at the Grace Hospital emergency department after waiting 33 hours for a bed.On Jan. 19, 2024, a patient died at the St. Boniface Hospital ER. The patient died after waiting five hours, and having undergone diagnostic testing.&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

Toronto police are searching for a pair of suspects after a series of break-ins at multiple west-end businesses on the morning of New Year’s Eve.It is alleged the man and woman attended six different commercial premises on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., in the Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue area.Police say the man used a rock to break the front door, targeting the cash tills once inside the premises, while the woman remained a lookout and used her backpack to conceal the stolen property.Global News contacted several business owners in the area who shared their own recent experiences with break and enters.Jonathan Larrad, the owner of Spanish Pig on Roncesvalles Avenue, was alerted by his store’s alarm company last week that someone had entered in the middle of the night. When he arrived several minutes later, he found the damage had been done.“I looked on the video footage on my phone and saw that someone was coming in. I got dressed as quickly as possible. Thankfully I live down the road, so I ran as fast as possible. I got into the shop and by then, obviously, the burglar had left. Saw the damage, the police arrived a few minutes later,” said Larrad.He noted police officers had visited the shop just days prior, advising him about a number of break-ins at area businesses.“I was kind of aware of the situation, but you kind of think it’s not going to happen to you, but eventually, unfortunately, it does,” he added.Larrad has had to close his shop to in-person shopping while he awaits a new point-of-sale system and replaces the broken door.“When you go shopping, there’s a screen where you enter your details and then there’s a till. They just dragged it all and as they dragged it, they kind of ripped out everything on its way,” he said.Larrad is now considering installing gates to his storefront to prevent future break-ins.“I grew up in England and in Spain, and so in some of these cities where crime levels can be higher, especially in London, you get these businesses that have shutters. And in Toronto, I think up until relatively recently, that wasn’t really necessary,” he said.“But now I think that’s changing quite dramatically and quite quickly and people are picking up on that.”On the morning of New Year’s Eve, a baked goods shop at Dovercourt Road and Queen Street West posted online that it had been broken into.Castle & Coal shared a photograph of a shattered front door, noting, “Well, this is how we’re celebrating our last day of 2024. Our staff called us this morning with the news. Luckily, it was just the tip box that was taken, and a broken door. No one was hurt! We don’t really have much to say, except that we feel violated especially since we see this as a safe space for everyone.”Similarly, on Jan. 2, Mabel’s Bakery on Roncesvalles Avenue posted a photograph of a broken door and shattered glass, with the caption, “Things will look a little different at Roncy his week due to a little unwelcome New Year’s surprise.”Store manager Jennifer Hall said nothing was taken but damage was done.She showed Global News a large rock that was believed to have been used to break the window.“They’re targeting people who can’t necessarily afford to absorb that loss. So it’s just really unfortunate, especially when we’re we spend so much time ingraining ourselves in the community and really consider ourselves to be a community service,” she said.Anyone with information about the two suspects in the break-and-enter investigation on New Year’s Eve is asked to contact police at 416-808-1400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

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B.C. Premier David Eby said he is frustrated about a supportive housing project in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood.In December, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that a law passed by the provincial government to stave off opposition to the project was unconstitutional.The B.C. government adopted the law in 2023 at the City of Vancouver’s request to push through the development, which would be 12-storeys high on Arbutus Street with units open to low-income residents and those needing support services.However, the Kitsilano Coalition for Children and Family Safety has been battling the project for years, saying it’s too big and in the wrong location as it’s across from an elementary school.“This is frustrating,” Eby said on Tuesday.“We’re trying to build housing for people. Everybody in British Columbia knows there’s a housing crisis. They see the people in the streets. They see that providing affordable housing with supports for people as part of the response to this.”2:13
B.C. government changes legislation to push through Kitsilano social housing projectEby said it has been four years and there still hasn’t been a shovel in the ground. He said the province’s lawyers are looking into what to do next.“But what is not up for discussion is that there will be affordable social housing in that neighbourhood,” he added.“We will ensure that every neighbourhood and every community does its part in terms of responding to the housing crisis.”Karen Finnan with the Kitsilano Coalition for Children and Family Safety said they are not opposed to having supportive housing in the neighbourhood.“We remain open to B.C. Housing, the province coming to us with an alternative plan for this site,” she said.“We will support a plan that is safe for the neighbourhood and ideally is something that will further the lives and the recovery of the people that live in this building.”Construction had originally been scheduled to begin in 2022.“We have to deliver housing,” Eby said. “We have to be able to do it faster. If we built that housing four years ago, it would have been way cheaper than it will be when we have to build it after we’ve resolved all the issues related to this court decision.“And that means less housing overall for everyone and the housing is still going to get built. So I’m encouraging the Housing Minister to find ways to expedite housing approval across the province.”&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

“All my grandbabies, all my daughters and their families have had all of this stuff. We just keep sharing it back and forth,” said Calgarian Ross Gilker about his experience with this year’s cold and flu season.“It’s the gift that keeps on giving.”A persistent cough and congestion lingering for weeks are just some of the symptoms others told Global News they have experienced.“My friends, several of them say they got sick over the holidays and it made their Christmas a little more quiet and at home,” said Rob MacDonald.According to the Alberta government’s respiratory virus dashboard, cases of influenza, COVID and RSV in the province are all on the rise.The latest numbers show between Dec. 22 and 28 there were 701 cases of the flu, 574 cases of respiratory syncytial visus (RSV) and 376 of COVID.
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The latest information from the Alberta government’s respiratory virus dashboard, shows a big jump in the number of cases of influenza, covid and RSV over the past month.

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Mathieu Giroux, a pharmacist at Cambrian Pharmacy in Calgary, told Global News the number of cases seems to have spiked in the past two weeks.“The holidays really sped everything up,” added Giroux.  “People probably went into it a little sick with viral infection but then they get a sinus infection or ear infection. So we’re treating a lot of antibiotics like for post-viral infections.“Sometimes the cough can last for two to four weeks easily.  And that’s where people have to go see the doctor get some puffers like an asthma puffer that you would get for short term coughing.”
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Calgarians who spoke to Global describe the recent spike in the number of cases of the flu and other respirator viruses as the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

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Doctor Daniel Gregson, an Infectious Disease Physician at the University of Calgary, said the average adult can expect to get about two cases of the flu or other respiratory virus per year and the average child about 3 to 5 cases.“There are various waves that occur over a period of months,” said Gregson.  “Then we also have this background of Covid that’s been ongoing since the Covid epidemic and on top of that there are other viruses that occur at lower frequencies.”“What has happened this year is the RSV spike, at least in Calgary, started a little bit earlier than usual and it has coincided with an onset of influenza,” added Gregson.“There has been this cluster of viruses that are happening all together. It makes things worse.”
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Infectious disease expert, Doctor Daniel Gregson, says one of the best ways to reduce your chances of contracting the flu and other respiratory viruses, or reducing the severity of them, is make sure your vaccines are up to date.

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HR Consultant Wendy Giuffre, President of Wendy Ellen Inc., said one of the most important lessons we learned from the pandemic is people “do get sick and legitimately do need to stay home.”“There are obviously some jobs that you can’t do from home,” said Giuffre.  “But through the pandemic, I think most jobs that you’re able to do from home were set up that way, so there really is no excuse for people to have to come in to work when they’re sick.”“There isn’t that  — I don’t want to say mistrust — that there used to be, but there was a little bit of that stigma when you called in sick,” added Giuffre.   “I think now that that is fundamentally changed”2:03
Respiratory virus season causes patient surge in Winnipeg emergency rooms&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

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Transit fares are set to be frozen in Toronto next year, as the city pushes new money into its ailing subway, streetcar and bus networks to try and tempt back riders who left during the pandemic.On Tuesday, the TTC unveiled its proposed 2025 budget with new spending, increased frequency across the network and a promise not to raise the cost for riders.“This is a budget that puts TTC riders and Torontonians first — with service increases and no fare increase, we’re freezing the fares,” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said, unveiling the budget at a TTC station.The new plan will see an increase of roughly six per cent in service hours across the network. Those new hours will lead to more frequent bus, streetcar and subway service across the city, and allow the TTC to operate the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and Finch West LRT if they open in 2025.“This is a bold investment,” Chow said. “Why? Because we want TTC riders to come back.”The transit agency is set to introduce several new spending lines, including a plan to target bus bunching on some routes, and $15 million to rehabilitate Kennedy, Scarborough Town Centre, Lansdowne, Dundas, Finch and Spadina stations.“All of these stations will have a station supervisor. You’ll walk in and actually see a picture of who’s in charge of the station,” TTC board chair Jamaal Myers said. “There will be a QR code so that you can report things that are wrong with the station.”Money is being put aside for critical infrastructure repairs in stations and for dedicated homeless outreach workers focusing on downtown streetcars.In total, the budget will see operating costs increase by $85 million this year to a total of $2.8 billion. The 10-year capital budget is now set to cost more than $16 billion.The plan is not yet confirmed and will be considered in the broader Toronto budget plan, set to be unveiled Monday.— with files from Global News’ Matthew Bingley1:55
TTC enforcement begins full-time use of body cameras&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.