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assault lawsuit. Former model mission winner chris mckinney is cues, incomes of drugging and sexually assaulting her at his new york recording studio in she is seeking unspecified amount in punitive and compensatory damages. Well, this is the 7th lawsuit filed against combs in recent months. 6 contained allegations of sexual assault. Long crime. Legal analyst dina da luz says the settlement is the most likely outcome to this lawsuit. >> I would think that sean combs, but try to immediately settle this, not only because of the fact that he has no evidence of physical abuse. And so this itself might have evidence about it. But we know that the you know, there is an ongoing in federal investigation and to him for what we think or maybe potential trafficking charges. So to that and he's certainly not going to want to sit for deposition in a lawsuit or something like this. >> Welcomes recently admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016. Montreal. Police say there's no threat to the public after a recent string of homicides in the city. 3 teenagers were stabbed late last night after a fight broke out in a montreal bowling alley involving more than dozen people. The city has seen 7 homicides in the last 10 days. However, they're not believed to be linked. Officials say the incident is not related and was reported to been caused by personal 3:51 29 degrees. This is toronto's breaking news cp24. We'll have a check on the roads after the break. Announcer: Have you ever walked into a big fancy car dealership and wondered who's paying for this place? Shopping for a Chrysler Dodge, Jeep Ram or Fiat? Log onto peelchrysler.com. Actual photos rock bottom prices, click shop, buy online, save big! Because nobody beats a deal from Peel! (Upbeat music) (Male vo) Make your first move with Battery Power made by Stihl (Upbeat music) Find steel tools starting at $229.99. Shop local, buy steel. available at Thornhill Lawn Equipment at Alpine Lawn and Garden Kennedy Road. Scarborough. Exposure to Asbestos is the main cause of work-related deaths in Canada. Miskin Law is the leading law firm in Canada dedicated to Mesothelioma victims. We want you to know that you do have options. Call Miskin Law today! Ontario is helping you keep more of what's yours. We're proposing to extend gas and fuel tax cuts, saving households an average of $320... We scrapped the licence plate sticker fee saving you up to $600... And we introduced One Fare so you only pay once when transferring between go Transit and local transit agencies... Saving riders on average $1,600 each and every year. We're keeping costs down for drivers and transit riders across the province. Learn more about how you're saving more. at ontario.ca/KeepingCostsDown Paid for by the Government of Ontario. Male Announcer: chum 104.5. I'm not here for long Toronto's best music. I'm a survivor Listen for your chance to play CHUM's Road Trip Challenge. Win a Nissan Rogue s all-wheel drive. Four eligible farmers search for real life romance with a new crop of daters farming for love on ctv (Dynamic music) >> Well, major, major problems continue of your commute or heading out of burlington and oakville on the toronto-bound qew a this is on the up side of the burlington skyway. What you're looking at is a multi-vehicle collision, which resulted in a vehicle fire was a chain reaction collision on the upside of burlington skyway started in the left lane. And then the vehicle in the back into the bursting into flames and old vehicles caught fire. Fire arrived on scene to put the fire out. But they shut down all lanes of the highway. What you're seeing here is police are allowing drivers to turn around and get off the highway. Eastport pie was actually covid sport. I don't have a visual on it. This is where your being for staff to on to the sport and there are alternatives to get you buy. In the meantime, traffic severely backed up from well before nikola tesla boulevard of any lanes reopen will deadly. Keep you in the know minor issues on the westbound lanes of the 4 winds at the start of the ramp to winston churchill. It is a stalled vehicle in a piece of the right lane. Checking out the drive on the don valley parkway. Busy afternoon for problem free for the people or up to the 401 outside of camera view on the eastbound lanes of the 4, 1, in the express awaits road crews at dealing with a collision. It's in the right lane and we still have a collision on the 4, 7, eastbound at woodbine. It is of the 2 right lanes blocked with this collision from this morning. I'll send it back to jamie.

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(Dynamic instrumental music) >> Environment. Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the city of toronto. City council. Busy afternoon on tap lot to talk about, including how to ease the gridlock on the gardiner and the renaming of yonge dundas square. Coming up, the latest from city hall. And the city has created a new report aimed at changing the way homeless encampment and dealt with will have more on that coming up. 4:00 feel like 36 outside from 299 queen street west. You're watching toronto's breaking news cp24. Good afternoon. I'm phil perkins. Thanks for joining sticking with the weather, we're following developing way above our heads. Severe thunderstorms are on the way gta environment canada has also issued a thunderstorm watch for our city expected with this storm are out the 90 kilometre an hour wind gusts and to sized hail and heavy rain stay with cp 24th to continue to monitor the forecast. Food banks canada is giving most provinces and territories poor marks when it comes to addressing poverty and food insecurity. Ctv's renee rodgers joins us live now with the details. You know people we talk about food insecurity during the big holidays christmas thanksgiving, but isn't all year issue, unfortunately. So what does this new study tells about hunger in this country over the last couple years? >> All year issue and an issue really right across canada, that's only getting worse. According to this latest report card. So last year's report card to food banks. Canada gave the country overall id when it comes to poverty and efforts to address it this year. We are getting a d minus as the cost of living pushes more canadians below the poverty line. Let me just rattle off a few key findings in this report. About half of canadians are 44% feel financially worse off than they did compared to a year ago. One in 10 live in poverty, nearly a quarter are facing food insecurity and food bank use has risen by 50% since 2021. Here's what the ceo of food banks or pardon me toronto's daily bread food bank had to say. >> Unfortunately are welcoming about 12 to 13,000 torontonians who have never used a food bank before are coming to the food bank for the very first time on a monthly basis. We're growing at 3 to 5% here in the city of toronto every single month. This past april, there were 311,000 client visits up from about 60,000 pre-pandemic. >> So some very sobering numbers there. And food banks. Canada says that most governments are not addressing this with the urgency that is required. It has a number of recommendations. Everything from that providing an immediate a grocery and essentials benefit to examining a rent assistance program for people across the country. >> That's why the they did touch up. I the people that are using food banks you have any more information on specific. Were the people who who are going to these places for food. >> I can tell you a lot of them fill seniors and about a 3rd of them are children. In fact, the ceo of the daily bread food neil hetherington says that about 50% of the people that he is seeing at that food bank are actually employed now some provinces fill are doing a little bit better than others. Nova scotia and pei each improved their scores from last year bc is also doing a little bit better from than the national average at d minus. And that's because all 3 of those provinces put greater legislative focus on poverty reduction and increasing the housing supply over the past year. But you know, this report really says that there's a lot more work to be done. And it warns without any major intervention things are only going to get worse. >> All right, now those are going out. Those guys what provinces territories actually improved their march by guess you just and to that very appreciate that. Thanks so much. Appreciate your welcome. All right, we're back here. City council is meeting this weekend in major funding. Gaps are going to be the main talking point. Toronto facing billions of dollars and funding shortfalls and infrastructure transit. Part why there is a live look at city hall right councillors talking it councillors are hoping that the other levels of government to will help find a solution to the money issues facing the city.

really. A child broke down some of the numbers and the expensive issues to address. >> Toronto likely tomorrow. We'll have an item where hopefully we will say yes to more density, more options for housing on major street. They call it missing middle housing on major street and make it easier and cheaper to build small apartment buildings and townhouses along largest reits. It maintains strong neighbourhoods while providing more housing. >> I think that our our primary focus is really asking the federal government, the provincial government to recognize that toronto is the size of a province. We have more people than half the provinces. So we really do need different revenue tools. So share the tax guys, we need how. We have no choice but to go to the province and to the federal government. We are limited in the revenue tools that we have here in the city of toronto. >> We're also not able to run an operating deficit. So it's important that we continue that advocacy and they're also welcome to grant new revenue tools and the ability to to gather some more money ourselves. >> And councillors will also discuss a motion by brad bradford and jon burnside that would accelerate construction on the gardiner by allowing work to go on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They say that that could shave a year off the timeline and say the city a lot of money. That motion is expected to be tabled tomorrow. >> City staff are already doing not. They're looking into it right now and they are testing some of the equipment to see how noisy it is in the evenings to see if they can accelerate the work and how they can do that best. They're also consulting with industry experts. They are already employing people prefab occasion techniques of the materials. But of course, there was looking into more I welcome the suggestions by council burnside and cancer. Bradford. But in fact, I'm going to ask for that reports come back earlier and come back into life because I know that are capable city staff are already working on those things. >> Well, the other thing is we're going into the summer time where there's a lot of sports events don't of the cne there is the cne a itself, a lot of people coming from out of town. Tourists are coming to our great city. The last thing we want is a bad experience with a hit our roads, so we want them to be able to get to other hotel or there are other entertainment location and have fun and have a good impression of our city. >> The city has created a new report and the changing the way homeless encampments are being dealt with. For more, let's go live to cp24's steve. Right, steve. >> Yeah, phil. The city has announced that they are going to change their approach those are without a home to find themselves living some of many parks throughout the city of toronto right now, there are less than 10 encampments in the city. That was at one point in time over 80 encampments and the city has decided that the best approach may not be to have the police going. And for all intensive purposes. Vix people from those parks because it just moves people out to other locations. And you start the same thing over and over again. If the root cause is not dealt with and that root cause with regard to homelessness, oftentimes job security, lack of food, at the health issues at other other addictions as well. So the city is now going approaches from a different angle and that angle is that they are going counsel. People are going to guide people into helping them get back on their feet to get away from the park's get on real up footing when it comes to jobs, when it comes to getting off of for any drugs that they me addicted to and getting them at the health. That they may need to look after. So it's not going to evict people from the park, but the police in a poor position as well, when they have to go in and physically remove people. You always run the risk of people getting injured this time, they're going to do it from social perspective and help people and guide them into getting back on their feet and getting out of one of the 10 parks that are here in the that are being used to as encampment. So we've got reaction earlier on as well. Here's some reaction. Let's listen. In april of. >> This past we had an average everyday of 225 people that call the centre central intake phone service. They were unable to get matched with that by the end of the day as of may 5th, there were 256 encampments at 131 city-owned properties in toronto. But this work is about people. That's why we've evolved our strategic approach to encampments. Everyone deserves a safe, affordable place to call home. And this report and the accompanying protocols are just one piece of the measures we're taking to offer certainty help indignity to people experiencing homelessness and surrounding communities. >> Town I have written to economic and community development committee with the motion to direct city staff to develop and implement key actions to increase access to

safe. >> Secure housing and shelter for people who living outdoors respond to the unique housing these of shelter seekers. And I particularly want to highlight our recommendation for a pilot program of enhanced multi-sectoral case management support for people living outdoors of those people who have complex mental and physical health needs and that this would be done in partnership with community serving and health care experts. >> Certainly help and dignity are 3 of the goals for toronto city council help these people get back on their feet. Tell us about >> All right, thank you very much to appreciate that as always. It is a for 10 feeling 36 outside this. Take a look at the roads of the first time. He's >> But issues on the burlington skyway yet major issues on the burlington skyway fill it was to has a chain reaction collision on the toronto-bound qew. The upside of the burlington sky was just the left lane that was blocked and it looks like most vehicles are unable to drive away. That didn't happen because a vehicle in the back and a bursting into flames and then lighting the other vehicles on fire. Fire arrived on scene. All lanes are blocked on the burlington skyway on the upside, but they're also been blocked at eastport. I don't have a visual on it, that this is eastport drive where drivers are being forced off card you're seeing in the backlog or just the vehicles in the backlog. Lindsey open all lanes. These trucks will be able to get through in some of these vehicles. They've already turned the other way police officers directed them so they can get off the highway eastport again, this is very, very slow. If you're trying to make your way to run about traffic, obviously dead stopped from well before nikola tesla boulevard. Once you get past, the city can get past this qew toronto-bound into mississauga contract right lane and shoulder blocked stalled transport truck. We're dealing with issues as you're making your way out towards a pickering ajax. And this is the eastbound lanes of the 401 in the express in liverpool and that left lane and shoulder blocked with a stall. Feel so very, very busy afternoon. 72. >> I thank you very much. A well, canada ranks among the top 10 countries in the world for stolen vehicles. According to interpol, the international law enforcement agency says it has identified more than 1500 stolen canadian vehicles across the globe since february. That's when the rcmp integrated its database first on vehicles with inter polls. The agency says that auto thefts are significant revenue source for organized crime groups and thieves are attracted to canada's abundant supply of highly prized suvs and crossovers. For 12 29 degrees. Feeling a lot warmer than that. You're watching toronto's breaking news cp24. There's more legal trouble for sean diddy combs will have more on the latest sexual assault lawsuit has been filed against the hip-hop mogul are coming up after the break. Welcome to the world of spycraft. (Dramatic music) Keep yours eyes glued to the action. Let's get down. Let's get funky! What are you concealing? You a communist sympathizer? (Whistles) It's just a job. Leon's Spring it on event ends Wednesday! Get incredible deals on furniture. Save up to 50% on select clearance mattresses. Save up to $1,000 on select Appliance and tv packages. Last chance to spring into savings. The Sounds of Summer Sale is on now at Visions Electronics! Incredible savings on amazing tech for outdoor entertainment TVs, speakers, car audio, and more! No Interest and No Payments Until 2026 Plus a chance to Win your purchase See all the deals at Visions dot ca Need a plumber? Water in the basement? Pain in the drain? Remember the name. Roto-Rooter that's the name. And away go troubles down the drain. Roto-Rooter! Call 1-800-get-roto now. -Spring is a great time to get things done. A Flexi Line might be right for you. -Could you use two eighty or even two point eight million? -Call us today. (Dynamic instrumental music) (Playful music) welcome back to some of our top stories we're following this afternoon, including this funded by canada issuing a severe thunderstorm watch for the city of toronto. Also, the city has created a new report aiming at changing the way homeless encampments are being dealt with. We'll have more on that coming up. Also, big news out of europe, spain, ireland and norway announcing today they will recognize a palestinian state next week. Reaction in moments or stay with cp24. For more on these stories and for more details, always go to our website cp24.com all right. Well, a warning that some viewers may find the next story disturbing. The families of 5

female israeli soldiers abducted by hamas october, the 7th have released graphic footage of the kidnapping that we can show you an image from the video. It shows a terrorist holding a woman captive and tying her hands while another injured woman is held against the wall. The hostages families farm says that they got the video from the idf and that it was originally released by hamas the group is hoping to pressure the israeli government to secure the hostages release. And with that spain, ireland and norway have all announced that they will recognize a palestinian state next week. The comes amid international outrage over the civilian death toll and humanitarian crisis in the gaza strip's. >> 7 months into the war now today's decisions made generate momentum for the recognition of a palestinian state by other eu nations. And the un member countries. Norway's prime minister said, quote, there cannot be peace in the middle east of there is no recognition israel has responded by recalling its ambassadors from all 3 countries mix. He says that it started. >> And importance day for ireland and for palace tonight. On the 21st of january, 1919. Asked the world's to recognize our rights to be independent states. Our message to the free nations of the world was a for international recognition of our independence and deciding are distinct national identity artist article struggle and our rights to self-determination and justice. Today, we use the same language to supports the recognition of palestine as it states. >> And a spokesman for the israeli government accused ireland and norway and spain of rewarding hamas terrorists with the prize of recognizing a palestinian state. >> Norway and spain. Telling hamas and a loud and clear voice that the october 7th massacre. Pays off. They are telling palestinians that educating children to terrorism and refusing to accept the jewish state pays off. There is no talk of bridge building of coexistence of bringing people together. No. These countries encourage and put pitch perpetuate will. More conflicts, more bloodshed, not less. >> We thank dose countries for taking this principle position. We believe that this is an astounding, a message of support the palestinian people's right to self-determination. Independence and statehood, which is non-negotiable. A number we believe it's also an astounding message. Against a apartheid colonialism and genocide. >> And he was national security adviser jake sullivan says that they have had reason conversations with israel about strategic approach to defeating hamas. >> The country that stands strong in defence of israel in international forums like the united nations. We certainly have seen a growing chorus of voices, including voices that had previously been in support of israel drift in another direction. That is of concern to us because we do not believe that that contributes to israel's long-term security or vitality. And so that's something that we discussed with the israeli government and something that we believe that a strategic approach to defeating hamas, protecting civilian surging humanitarian assistance. And then pursuing that vision of regional integration. I just talked about, we'll put israel in the best ed. >> Meanwhile, the israeli military says it's continuing its military activity in the west bank town of jenin forces raided the militant stronghold yesterday, killing at least 7 people. According to the palestinian health ministry. Israel says a number of terrorists were killed, including 2 threw soldiers. At a our poll finds a 55% of canadians think it's time for israel to stop its military action in gaza, even if it means hamas continues to pose a threat that's compared 45% of believe israel should press on until hamas releases the remaining hostages and agrees acceptable ceasefire conditions. The survey of 1500 maru voice canada online panelists. It's considered accurate between 2.5% 19 times out of 20. Mogul sean diddy combs facing another sexual assault lawsuit, former model mission winner crystal mckinney is accusing comes of drugging and sexually assaulting her at his new york recording studio. 2003 is seeking an she is seeking unspecified amount of punitive and compensatory damages. This is the 7th lawsuit filed against comes in recent months. 6 contain allegations of sexual assault. Now law in crime. Legal analyst dina da luz says the settlement is most likely the outcome of this lawsuit.

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