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To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals

Police Association boss is one of the most contentious jobs in the city, and new president Campbell is ready for a fight. Step one: arguing for more money

Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband

How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence

They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs

Emily Ager is one of several complainants in criminal trials whose cases have been dismissed because of staffing shortages and delays at Toronto’s new $956-million courthouse

When George Otto disappeared while out on bail, his wife reported him missing. It turned out he'd fled to his home country of Uganda

"It doesn’t cost him extra and I’d probably never get caught"

Gang life gave me a sense of power and belonging that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Then a knife fight turned fatal

Benjamin Levin dazzled everyone around him. He was the second of four brothers, born in 1952 to a warm, loving, staunch NDP family...

Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...

Jian Ghomeshi and I first met in February of 1999. I was in my early 20s, and I’d just been hired as an arts reporter at the...

John Tory's “zero tolerance” policy on illegal parking during rush hour has a lot of Torontonians seeing...

The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most...

My father, Tsehaie Berhane, fled Asmara, Eritrea, in the ’80s during the war with Ethiopia. He was a professor, and the...

Mike McCormack is the head of the Toronto Police Association , the labour union that represents over 8,000 civilian and uniformed...

—The Toronto area's 2013 homicide rate, according to Statistics Canada . (That's per 100,000 residents. Canada's most murderous...

—The court-ordered fine levied on Gary Gould , a Toronto police officer who pleaded guilty to assault after punching a drunk man...

Raed Jaser, a school bus driver with a long record of petty crime, and Chiheb Esseghaier, a doctoral student in...

On the evening of July 25, 2007, I was trimming the drooping branches of the weeping mulberry tree in the garden of my house in a...

The details aren't totally clear, but the Sun reports that William Byers , a 60-year-old Rob Ford campaign volunteer, has been...

For the third time since becoming mayor, Rob Ford may be forced to give testimony in court. He wouldn't be talking about anything...

Almost a year to the day after the shooting death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim , a long-awaited report on police encounters with...

met Ian Borbely at a mutual friend’s party in 2003. They came from different worlds. She was 25 and striking, with long black...