In the days after a motorist drove into a crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing 11, Toronto's Filipino community has banded together in solidarity and grief, including two people who left the festival just before the incident.

Members of Toronto’s festival community say they’re urgently revisiting their safety protocols, nearly one week after an SUV plowed through a crowd at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver.

Canadian prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old Vancouver resident with murder for killing at least 11 people aged between 5 and 65 and injuring dozens after he rammed an SUV through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city,