Shanifa Nasser

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice is now examining whether or not police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis should have their names shielded from the public.

A major challenge of Canada’s ban on adoptions from many Muslim countries is set to play out in the Federal Court — a move some legal observers say wouldn’t be necessary if the government wasn’t upholding what they call a ‘discriminatory’ policy.

The jail sergeant who broke protocol to film Soleiman Faqiri’s condition in the hope of getting him help choked back tears as he recalled the joy in Faqiri’s face when he finally had a shower after days of deteriorating in segregation.

The top health care official at the jail where Soleiman Faqiri died didn’t feel he met the bar for her to send him to hospital and refused to watch a video taken by a guard capturing his decline in segregation, a coroner’s inquest heard Tuesday. That official had no medical background.

The guard in charge the day Soleiman Faqiri died left out of his report that the 30-year-old was swung at and punched multiple times in the head, an inquest has heard. Faqiri had been calm and cooperative earlier, a nurse said in a recording heard Thursday.

After a gripping first day, the inquest into Soleiman Faqiri’s death focused Tuesday on the conditions inside Ontario jails. Jurors heard from Lindsay Jennings about her lived and professional experience, as well as Howard Sapers, former federal correctional investigator and former Ontario independent advisor on correctional reform.

A police agency west of Toronto is fighting to secure a publication ban on the names of the officers involved in the death of Ejaz Choudry, a father of four with schizophrenia shot and killed by police who claimed they had to act out of fear for his safety.

Brothers sentenced to 6 years in prison for 'anti-Arab' attack against Mississauga father

Police north of Toronto say they have rescued 64 Mexican migrants exploited by an international labour trafficking ring and in living conditions so deplorable that officers themselves have been left shaken.

A city committee has approved a plan to cut in half the amount of time shuttle buses will be used to divert the busy 501 Queen streetcar route around planned subway construction — from 20 months to 10.

A Toronto man who rushed to the aid of a police officer during a knife attack two years ago is facing removal from Canada and pleading for the government to reconsider — saying if he’s forced to return to Uganda, he’ll face arrest or worse.

A new private member’s bill tabled at Queen’s Park Thursday would impose strict rules on staffing agencies that recruit and employ nurses for temporary work.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday it is “ridiculous” that he is facing questions about reports that developers attended and donated to a pre-wedding fundraising party for his daughter and her then-soon-to-be-husband last summer, adding the province’s integrity commissioner cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Two men charged in the 2018 assault of a Mississauga father of two who was beaten within an inch of his life have been found guilty of aggravated assault but not guilty of attempted murder.

A personal support worker who faced deportation to Uganda despite working on the front lines during COVID-19 over the past three years has been granted a brief reprieve, days after CBC Toronto reported on her plight.

Kaif Ali is one a growing number of Somalis who advocates say have had their refugee claims invalidated by the Immigration and Refugee Board, and who could face deportation because of the fraudulent passports they used to flee their homeland.

New information has emerged in the death of Abdurahman Hassan, a Somali man with mental illness, who died while being restrained in immigration custody in 2015, Ontario’s chief coroner’s office says.

Six years after Abdurahman Hassan, a Somali man with mental illness, died while being restrained in immigration custody, Ontario has set an inquest into the death of the 39-year-old.

A censure against the University of Toronto has been temporarily suspended after the school reversed course on a hiring controversy that saw a federal tax judge allegedly try to block the hiring of an international law practitioner who has written widely on Israel-Palestinian affairs.

A proposed class-action lawsuit by Black federal workers against the federal government alleging years of discrimination and seeking some $2.5 billion in damages is now one step closer to going ahead. It will be up to the new government to work with those behind the lawsuit or challenge it.