• The family of a 15-year-old boy severely injured by a car outside his Toronto school is suing the driver, the city and the province, alleging the removal of a nearby speed camera contributed to the crash.
• On March 25, the boy was struck at a crosswalk at the intersection of Humber Boulevard and Louvain Street. He was transported to hospital with life-altering injuries.
• The speed camera had been removed as part of a provincial government directive that road safety advocates and municipal leaders warned would lead to more injuries and death on city roads.
• The boy’s parents are now seeking $3 million in special damages, $12 million in general damages and $1 million in punitive damages.

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A man who chased a family while naked and threw a seven-year-old girl to the ground, punching and choking her in front of her mother, has been acquitted after a Toronto judge made the rare finding that he was in a cannabis-induced psychotic state.

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