Newsstand: June 11, 2015

It's Thursday, and we've finally endured our first melodramatic summer storm. Good job, us! Today in the news we have a court challenge against the Toronto Police, a fatal hit-and-run and, of course, more on that wacky storm.

By Kelli Korducki • Illustration by Jeremy Kai

A 23-year-old woman is in police custody following a hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a cyclist early this morning. The victim, a man who remains unidentified, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The incident occurred Finch Avenue West and Tobermory Road.

Yesterday a Toronto man named Knia Singh has launched a court challenge against the Toronto Police with the intent to end carding, claiming that the controversial practice is a breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Singh, a law student at Osgoode Hall, reports having been carded on multiple occasions, a practice that his Notice of Application, filed to TPSB chair Alok Mukherjee, describes as dehumanizing. Mayor John Tory called for an end to the practice at a press conference last Sunday.

After a comically drawn-out round of pre-storm thunder, yesterday evening’s deluge made for flash floods across the city, as captured by this photo from the Star‘s Instagram account and dozens of dispatches tagged #ONstorm on Twitter. Welcome to thunderstorm season, Toronto, and try keeping those phones of yours dry.