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Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD The Prime Minister's central team of bureaucrats was determined to control every aspect of the government's response to Canada's biggest ever anti-terrorism raids, according to documents [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Toronto, hang your head in shame. Street Wars, the now world-famous mash-up of water guns and cold-blooded assassination, was destined to take over Canada's largest city [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD A 200,000-volt model runs about $20. A little more than $100 buys one million volts. This week, a 13-year-old Catholic secondary-school student was caught at school [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Incensed at the number and content of media interviews a key witness has given, defence lawyers are attempting to bring contempt of court charges against the [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE AND OMAR EL AKKAD BRAMPTON -- The lead informant in Canada's most high-profile terrorism case has appeared in court to finally face most of the suspects he [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Nicole Kish, the young woman charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a St. Catharines man in Toronto last month, has been granted bail. [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; With a report from Canadian Press With an election right around the corner, the Ontario Liberals have decided residents of the province need a break - [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD For the first time since he was arrested in Uzbekistan and handed to China some 18 months ago, Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil was allowed to meet [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD As the day began yesterday morning, 21-year-old Nicole Kish was sitting in a holding cell in a downtown courthouse, preparing for a bail hearing on charges [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD An obscure, Toronto-based Coptic Christian association has been thrust into the spotlight after three of its members were arrested in Cairo earlier this week, signalling another [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD A panel exploring Toronto school safety after the shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Manners will turn to the public for advice next week. The School Community Safety [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; With a report from Campbell Clark When 17 suspects were arrested as part of a massive anti-terrorism bust and made their first appearance in a Toronto-area [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND ALEX DOBROTA TORONTO -- A Toronto police officer is accused of using his authority to assist a multimillion-dollar drug-smuggling operation and a botched kidnapping plot. [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Police stumbled across a huge cache of weapons and explosives in a Scarborough storage unit yesterday, prompting officers to cordon off the area and even call [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD A series of fires that gutted several homes and cars in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood could have proved fatal had it not been for a smoke [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD An arsonist may be on the loose in Toronto as police and fire officials continue to investigate a series of suspicious fires in the northwest end [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND UNNATI GANDHI; With a report from Associated Press Canadian soldier Robert Costall was shot to death from behind in Afghanistan last year by American troops, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Another serious collision involving suspected street racing has left a husband and wife with serious injuries and provincial police frustrated by what has been a prolific [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD A former Pakistani cabinet minister and member of the country's governing party faces more serious charges in the death of Canadian businesswoman Kafila Siddiqui. The new [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND SONYA FATAH TORONTO and NEW DELHI -- A Pakistani state minister resigned yesterday after he was named a suspect in the sudden death of Canadian [...]

Byline: MARGARET PHILP AND OMAR EL AKKAD TORONTO -- Monique and Aleisha were best friends taking a taxi home from a relative's house in the early hours of Saturday morning. [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE AND OMAR EL AKKAD TORONTO -- The star informant in the most high-profile terrorism case in Canadian history has been charged with assault, after allegedly shoving and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO; With reports from Tenille Bonoguore and James Christie MISSISSAUGA -- There were less than 30 seconds left in a high school rugby game [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND KEITH McARTHUR Five teenage pupils at a Thornhill public school have become the latest Toronto-area members to run afoul of school authorities on Facebook.com. And [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE, OMAR EL AKKAD TORONTO -- It's not clear how Qari Kafayatullah entered the orbit of the young alleged extremists accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Canadian [...]

Byline: OMAR EL-AKKAD 'We're addressing some fundamental needs in transportation and energy,' Pierre Rivard says. 'I think the two are linked in a fundamental way.' To put it simply, the [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE AND OMAR EL AKKAD; With reports from Heba Aly and Unnati Gandhi TORONTO -- A teenage girl was killed yesterday in a volley of shots that had [...]