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One person is dead and another has been rushed to hospital in critical condition after a shooting near a high school in the Islington Avenue and Dixon Road area.

The Postmedia Network announced today that it will acquire Sun Media’s English-language newspapers and speciality publications—175 in all—including its flagship daily, the Toronto Sun.

One person is dead after being struck by a CP train on Sunday afternoon in Maple Ridge.

Rob Ford’s brother says the ailing Toronto mayor will begin a second round of chemotherapy on Tuesday. Doug Ford was canvassing in North York on Sunday and was pressed about the health conditions of the mayor. He provided the Tuesday start date and thanked people for their support.

Toronto police say an attempted robbery led to the shooting death of a man exiting a bar with his friends in the city’s west-end Sunday morning. Andrew Surage, 47, was leaving the after-hours bar near Weston Road and Northland Avenue around 5:45 a.m. when the attempted robbery took place and a struggle ensued.

A Nunavut man is in police custody Saturday after a shooting incident in the community of Igloolik in which an RCMP officer was shot and wounded.

It was a single photograph, but it captured so much about family, separation and the uncertainty of war.

Tzou has been found overnight and returned to his owner. On Thursday, Oct. 2, around 6:30 p.m., a three-year-old St. Bernard named Tzou was in the back of a Dodge pickup truck when it was stolen in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The truck was later found abandoned in the Fairview area of Vancouver, but Tzou was nowhere to be found.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is embarking on a combat mission in Iraq with no political cover should anything go awry. New Democrats and Liberals refused Friday to support Harper’s decision to join in airstrikes against the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has been committing atrocities in northern Iraq.

One man was taken to hospital without vital signs after suffering an electrical shock while atop an abandoned industrial building in Etobicoke early Saturday morning. It happened near The Queensway and St. Lawrence Avenue at around 1 a.m.

Two years after Rob Wright was taken to the floor by an RCMP officer in a Terrace, B.C., jail cell, video of the incident has drawn outrage and renewed calls for an investigation. “It appears on the video that this brutal takedown was an excessive use of force. Mr. Wright was kneeling on a bench, cuffed, and posing no apparent …