CTV News Toronto at Six for Apr. 11, 2024

Peel police revealed the more than $20 million gold heist from Pearson airport was an inside job; Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter was handed a lifetime NBA ban for disclosing confidential information to sports bettors; and, McDonalds customers are voicing shock to discover the restaurants' long-running free coffee loyalty program is over.

Dramatic video released by Toronto police shows three carjacking suspects being taken down by officers following a series of armed and increasingly violent auto thefts; judges and inmates alike are speaking out on 'deplorable' conditions at the infamous Toronto South Detention Centre; and, an Ontario nurse is fighting to recover a $130,000 investment with a mortgage company that has since been accused of being unlicensed.

The father of a friend of a 14-year-old drowning victim said he told them not to swim at Ashbridges Bay because of how cold the water is; a community is reeling after a brazen, daytime shooting killed 32-year-old Mohamud Abdi Duale on Sunday; and, Pat Shacklady of Midland, Ont. said BMO initially refused to reimburse her after she was defrauded $7,000 for a short taxi ride in Chile.

The SIU has invoked its mandate after a Toronto police officer was stabbed and the suspect shot by police in a violent altercation; the TTC has approved a pilot program to equip 20 special constables and 20 fare inspectors with body-worn cameras; and, the Ontario government says it won't require builders to include EV chargers in new homes despite billions invested in the EV supply chain.

Umar Zameer sobbed on the stand while recounting the moment he realized he ran over a plainclothes police officer, leading to his death; O.J. Simpson, the football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife, has died from cancer at the age of 76; and, the seemingly emotional reunion of two trumpeter swans in Toronto, separated after one was injured, is melting hearts online.

An Ontario NDP private members bill declaring intimate partner violence an epidemic drew rare support from the Ford government; Toronto police are crediting time-release safes at pharmacies for the decline in robbery attempts; and, a couple says they are frustrated by their compensation fight with WestJet after flight delays led them to miss two days of their vacation.

Umar Zameer took the stand in his own defence at the first-degree murder trial of Const. Jeffery Northrup on Canada Day 2021; surveillance video shows a Toronto police officer tackling an alleged car theft suspect, an arrest that led to an officer getting injured; and, two women are facing charges after three children aged 10, nine and two were left unattended at a Pickering casino parking lot for 4 hours.

Over a million people stood shoulder-to-shoulder at Niagara Falls as the path of totality from the solar eclipse passed overhead; Two men are in hospital with critical life-threatening injuries following a fire inside the high-rise apartment building; and, eclipses have long inspired artists from Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.’

One man is dead after an early morning shooting in a Brampton, Ontario neighbourhood; A Toronto resident that received a notice of owing almost $10,000 in vacant tax charges speaks out; and, Toronto Maple Leafs alumni team up with Baycrest to raise money for dementia research.

After months of renovations, the $300-million improvements to the Roger Centre have been unveiled; a Brampton home owner speaks out after a violent home invasion was caught on camera; and, new features of the newly-renovated Rogers Centre have been unveiled.