Ontario city pauses speed cameras after 32K tickets handed out in 3 weeks
After more than 32,000 speeding tickets were handed out in just three weeks by new automated speed enforcement cameras in community safety zones, council in the City of Vaughan decided to pause the program
Mayor Steven Del Duca put forward the motion last week to pause the tickets until September, when council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.
He said he had heard from a number of constituents, including a senior who had stopped going to bingo due to the tickets they were receiving.
“I have a motion … just for us to take a brief pause and go back to the drawing board and make sure that when we come back if council supports this, none of our residents can come to us and say this is not what it is supposed to be and that we are ironclad on this one,” the mayor told council.
While almost all of the councillors were in support of the pause, few seemed to want the cameras to disappear from the landscape permanently.
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“For every complaint I get about the camera, I get a resident calling me and asking, ‘Why aren’t you putting one on my street?’” said Coun. Marilyn Iafrate. “So you know it’s here, we’re taking a pause, but they better be here to stay because otherwise, it defeats the purpose of what we’re looking for, which is a safe community.”
Over the summer months, when the cameras snap a pic of a speeder they will receive a warning in the mail rather than a fine. The city says it hopes the strategy will reduce driving speeds through awareness rather than punitive measures.
A report prepared by staff said that 12,733 speeders were caught in week one, while 11,769 tickets were issued during the second week. That number fell to 7,504 during the third week. The staff report said that two of the cameras were damaged during the three weeks. It is unclear how long the cameras were out of commission, but that may have contributed to the decline.
An automatic speed enforcement camera located on New Westminster Drive accounted for close to a third (9,877 penalty orders) of all the tickets issued, while other locations such as Kipling Avenue (6,004 penalty orders) and Ansley Grove Road (5,116 penalty orders) were also hotspots for speeders.
One of the cameras clocked at least one driver doing 145 km/h in a 40 km/h on Peter Rupert Avenue, while others clocked into the high 90s on other roads as well.
The report did not say how much money was collected as a result of the infractions.
That said, it appears that the presence of the cameras was having an impact as speed rates fell by around 10 km/h at the locations of the cameras.
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SEATTLE – Blue Jays designated hitter George Springer left Game 5 of the American League Championship Series due to a right knee injury.
Springer was hit by a 95-m.p.h. pitch thrown by reliever Bryan Woo in the seventh inning of Friday’s game at T-Mobile Park. Toronto led 2-1 at the time.
Springer was replaced in the lineup by Joey Loperfido, who was added to the 26-man roster on Thursday after outfielder Anthony Santander was ruled out with a back injury.
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Springer was hit in the side of the knee and immediately crumpled to the ground in the batter’s box. A team trainer, joined by manager John Schneider, came out of the dugout for assistance.
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The 36-year-old Springer got to his feet and tested the leg by slowly walking to first base before deciding to leave the game.
Springer, who drove in Toronto’s first run of the game in the fifth inning, is hitting .256 in the post-season with three homers and six RBIs. He hit .309 in the regular season with 32 homers and 84 RBIs.
Following the game Jays manager John Schneider said X-rays were negative on Springer’s knee.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2025.
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SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners are one win away from a berth in the 2025 World Series.
The Mariners scored five runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 on Friday night at T-Mobile Park to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series.
With the Jays leading 2-1 heading into the home half of the eighth inning, Seattle star Cal Raleigh tied the game with a solo home run off reliever Brendon Little to tie the game 2-2.
Then with the bases loaded Eugenio Suarez hit his second homer of the night off reliever Seranthony Dominguez to give the Mariners a 6-2 lead.
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Ernie Clement’s RBI single in the sixth inning off Mariners’ reliever Bryan Woo scored Alejandro Kirk from second base to snap a 1-1 tie and give the Jays a 2-1 lead. Kirk led off the inning with a double.
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Suarez hit a second-inning solo home run off Blue Jays’ starter Kevin Gausman to give the Mariners an early 1-0 lead.
The Jays load the bases in top of fourth with none out — Nathan Lukes hit a double, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was intentionally walked, and Kirk walked. But Daulton Varsho struck out and Clement grounded into a double play to end the inning.
George Springer’s long double off Mariners’ reliever Matt Brash of Kingston, Ont., scored Addison Barger in the top of fifth to tie the game 1-1.
Mariners starter Bryce Miller worked four innings of four-hit ball, giving up one run and two walks. He had four strikeouts.
Kevin Gausman worked 5 2/3 innings, gave up three hits, one run, three walks and had four strikeouts. Louis Varland worked 1 1/3 innings of no-hit ball, before Little and Dominguez collectively gave up two hits and five runs.
Mariners starter Bryce Miller worked four innings of four-hit ball, giving up one run and two walks. He had four strikeouts.
Game 6 is Sunday night at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Right-handed rookie Trey Yesavage will start for the Jays, while the Mariners haven’t named a starter yet.
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The Canada Border Services Agency said Friday it had resolved the third outage in less than a month affecting some airport traveller inspection kiosks, after the head of the agency called the repeated equipment failures “not acceptable.”
The CBSA said the outage affecting inspection kiosks at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Calgary International Airport and Edmonton International Airport was resolved around 3 p.m. eastern time, six hours after it was first reported.
An agency spokesperson told Global News that kiosks were also impacted at Toronto’s Billy Bishop International Airport and Ottawa International Airport, but those systems were brought back online earlier Friday.
“This failure was caused by an unexpected technical issue during maintenance work,” the spokesperson said in an email. “It was not the result of any cyberattack.
“We thank travellers for their cooperation and apologize for any inconvenience experienced.”
Earlier Friday, CBSA president Erin O’Gorman said the agency works with its partners “relentlessly” to prevent outages and has contingency plans in place.
“It’s not acceptable that they go down, and we are working with our partners to make sure they don’t go down — and when they do, that we are ready to put them back up again,” she told reporters at a border security announcement in Niagara Falls, Ont.
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Friday’s outage came after a similar failure on Oct. 2 that affected Toronto Pearson as well as Montreal Trudeau International Airport, Ottawa International Airport and Calgary International Airport for about three hours.
That outage came days after kiosks went offline due to what CBSA called “unforeseen technical problems during routine systems maintenance” on Sept. 28.
The agency has said the recent outages also affected commercial processing at some land border crossings.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Friday he has tasked O’Gorman to report back to him within 30 days on “some of the challenges that we have been facing recently,” but added that agency staff are tasked to ensure outages are resolved quickly.
“I can assure Canadians that our systems work, our systems work effectively,” the minister said.
“Of course, there may be at times some outages and as soon as we find out, we make every effort to fix it in an expedited timeline.”
During the outages, international arrivals at affected airports have been rerouted to in-person customs inspection booths, leading to delays for travellers.
“Safety and security standards are upheld at all times, with border services officers working to verify travellers’ identities, receive their declarations, and conduct any additional screening warranted by each traveller’s individual circumstances,” the agency told Global News.
“The CBSA works closely with airport management to expedite traveller processing, minimize delays and complete verifications as required.”
Manual processing was also enacted for commercial traffic at land border crossings, leading to delays for vehicles that persisted for days after the outages were resolved.
The CBSA said at the time that it was working with Shared Services Canada, the Crown agency that provides IT services across government, to reduce the risk of future outages.
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