{"id":791723,"date":"2026-07-10T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:03:08","slug":"toronto-bus-driver-hurt-in-violent-assault-suspect-arrested-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791723\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto bus driver hurt in &#8216;violent assault&#8217;, suspect arrested: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say a suspect has been charged with assault with a weapon after a city bus driver was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were called to Wilson Station Wednesday evening for a report that a driver was being assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Transit Commission CEO Mandeep Lali says the driver is recovering at home after a &#8220;violent assault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lali says the TTC will continue to work with police during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO offered his support to the driver in a social media post, adding that violence against TTC employees is unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-791723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}