Charges wont be laid after driver, cyclist get into altercation

No charges will be laid after a cyclist and the driver of a luxury car got into an altercation near Queen and Yonge Streets on Tuesday.

Witnesses say it appears as though the vehicle initially struck the cyclist, which led to a confrontation between the two people involved at about 10 a.m.

The cyclist, believed to be a bike courier in his twenties, was seen by witnesses pounding on the vehicle. The driver of the BMW says the bike rider allegedly threw punches through the window.

The driver then stepped out of his car to punch the cyclist. The courier suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene by paramedics.

The attack comes on the heels of the death of a Toronto bike courier, who was killed in August after an altercation with former attorney general Michael Bryant. Cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard was dragged under a vehicle and died of his injuries.

Bryant is charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.

Source: CP24.com

Just For Laughs at Yonge Dundas Square

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After a brief delay by a summer rainshower, we got on the subway and headed to Yonge Dundas Square to see Russell Peters at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. The packed subway was a good indicator of the crowd at the square, which I estimate was in the thousands. Below is a stitched panorama image of the crowd and one of Russell Peters on stage. We only stayed a few minutes due to the size of the crowd and we couldn't really hear anything. His act is posted on Youtube in four parts.

Thanks to Petals & Twigs in the Toronto Life Square which overlooks Yonge Dundas Square for letting me take the crowd picture from your window.

Yonge Dundas Square Toronto

 

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Toronto Tamil Protest

Thousands of people from Toronto's Tamil community have gathered downtown to form a human chain through the core of the city to protest the civil war in Sri Lanka.

The protesters are forming a human chain that will start on Front Street, go up Yonge Street to Bloor Street, and head west down Bloor to University Avenue, where it will turn south back to Front.

The protest is meant to draw attention to the attacks by the Sri Lankan military on Tamils in that country's bloody civil war.

Full Story at CTV News

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