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Traffic ground to a halt on Hwy. 410 Wednesday night after a transport truck without a trailer lost control and rolled into the centre median during rush hour. There was heavy rain at the time and there were no reports of injuries— only frayed patience.
Photo by Sean Magenniss
Rahim and Nazifa Shahghasy were laid to rest Monday at Brampton Memorial Gardens. More than 200 mourners, some of whom had flown in from Australia and the United States, attended the service.
Photo by Ken Hay
Brampton Guardian Publisher Ken Nugent, left, and Mayor Susan Fennell present John Cutruzzola with The Brampton Guardian's 2007 Citizen of the Year Award during a ceremony Thursday night. For his dedication and love of Brampton, his volunteer work with the Salvation Army Family Life Resource Centre, the local business community, several city committees, and for the time, money and artistic donations he has contributed over the years, Cutruzzola received the honour.
Photo by Bryon Johnson
Rahimullah Shahghasy, 53, of Brampton was stabbed to death Wednesday while trying to save his wife, Nazifa, 52, from a man wielding two kitchen knives with 9- to 10-inch blades, according to Peel police homicide Insp. Norm English. Police are looking at the possibility the stabbing was a carjacking gone horribly wrong.
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A Good Samaritan was stabbed to death when he tried to prevent the killing of a woman during an apparent domestic dispute at a Brampton plaza this afternoon.
Police were called to the plaza, in the McLaughlin Road and Williams Parkway area, around 12:25 p.m. A woman and a man had been fighting, and the man appears to have stabbed the woman, police said. When a passer-by tried to intervene, it appears the man stabbed him as well, before trying to take his own life, police said.
By George Beshiri
A 62-year-old Bramalea man may have suffered a heart attack behind the wheel before crossing six lanes of traffic and killing an elderly pedestrian near Woodbine Racetrack in Etobicoke Monday evening. Frederick Spanagle, 87, of Derry Road in Mississauga was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:22 p.m. crash. He was standing near a bus stop on Rexdale Boulevard, across from the racetrack, when he was hit.
Photo by Graham Paine
Current plans to extend Hwy. 427 a few kilometres further north doesn't go far enough to address the region's long-term needs, Peel councillors told provincial planners recently.
Highway planners Michael Chiu and Dean Kemper provided councillors with an update on a strategy to expand Hwy. 427 along Peel's eastern boundary.
The current blue print proposes to extend the highway along the western edge of York Region, from Queen Street East in the south (just east of Hwy. 50) to Major Mackenzie Drive in the north.
Although the project is only in the environmental assessment and planning stages regional politicians, including Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell, argued the plan not only falls short with respect to distance but also lacks a long-term vision.
"If we can consolidate the discussion around here...
The City of Brampton makes no apologies for having the highest development charges in the GTA.
"We are in step with what other GTA municipalities are doing," said city spokesperson Gordon Smith. "We all face the same issues, particularly in dealing with growth and infrastructure, and making sure we have the revenue streams to be able to properly address growth."
Development charges are a crucial revenue source for funding the cost of new community centres, transit and libraries, he said. If growth doesn't pay for itself through development charges, then the cost falls to the property tax bills.
A report released this week by the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), concludes Brampton adds $35,398 in development charges to the cost of a new single-family home when it is...
Brampton firefighters battled a suspicious townhouse blaze yesterday afternoon on Hansen Road...
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