Bryann Aguilar
Bryann Aguilar is a journalist with CP24 and CTV News who covers business and breaking news stories, with a focus on fast-moving incidents that affect public safety and city services. His coverage is distinguished by its concentration on the operational side of emergencies and police investigations, spelling out how violent incidents, transit negotiations and service disruptions impact people’s daily lives. He consistently works in a rapid-update format, turning complex situations into clear, short dispatches grounded in official information.
Breaking news on crime and public safety
Aguilar’s most visible work is in real-time coverage of violent incidents and major public safety events across the Greater Toronto Area. He frequently reports on assaults in busy public spaces, such as a story detailing how a 26-year-old man allegedly threw a woman to the ground, punched two men and assaulted others at Yonge and Dundas. His coverage extends to fatal collisions, including a hit-and-run in Niagara-on-the-Lake where a cyclist was killed and a 22-year-old man was later charged with impaired driving. In Brampton, he has reported on serious assaults inside homes, noting that a man was attacked with a knife and taken to hospital, and laying out the limited circumstances known at the time. He also tracks shootings in suburban communities, as in his report on a man who died after being shot near Glen Erin Drive and Meadowvale Town Centre in Mississauga.
Beyond these headline incidents, Aguilar’s body of work includes numerous stories on serious stabbings and shootings where paramedics describe victims’ conditions and police release early details. In Mississauga, he has covered a stabbing that left a man seriously injured, pinpointing the intersection and the time of the incident while relaying paramedic assessments. He has also reported on the Special Investigations Unit examining the actions of off-duty Toronto police officers after a man in distress later died, framing the event through the lens of oversight and accountability. Across these pieces, he focuses on the immediate facts: where and when an incident happened, how seriously people were hurt, and what police or medical services are doing in response.
Transit, labour and service disruptions
Aguilar brings the same breaking-news discipline to stories at the intersection of transit operations, labour relations and public safety. His reporting on the tentative agreement between the Toronto Transit Commission and its union, which averted a large-scale transit disruption, highlights the business and service implications of labour negotiations for commuters and the wider city economy. In another track of his coverage, he follows incidents in and around transit infrastructure, such as a case where Toronto police released images of a female suspect wanted in connection with an assault inside a TTC station elevator. In that story, he detailed the station location, the time of the attack, the victim’s injuries and the suspect’s physical description, underscoring both personal safety and transit service concerns.
Aguilar also covers street-level crime that can affect commercial areas and transportation corridors, including an attempted robbery in Mississauga where police released images of a suspect accused of assaulting a woman. He reports these events in practical terms—who was involved, what is known about the suspect, and how the incident might affect people moving through that neighbourhood. When incidents intersect with city functions, his stories tend to emphasize operational details such as route areas, station names and time windows, giving readers enough information to understand potential disruptions to normal routines.
Police investigations and appeals for information
A distinctive element of Aguilar’s reporting is his close attention to police investigations and public appeals, often serving as a conduit between law enforcement and the public. He writes extensively on cases where police release suspect photos or vehicle images, including a story about a man who allegedly followed a 13-year-old girl walking home in the city’s east end, in which he relayed the accusation and the accompanying photograph. In East York, he has covered a stabbing in which police disseminated a photo of a vehicle used by the suspect to flee, presenting those images alongside a concise account of the incident. He has similarly reported on Peel police releasing images of a suspect in an attempted robbery in Mississauga, including descriptive details about the person and urging the public to assist.
His work also runs through longer-running investigative themes, such as a Toronto police arrest in a 2008 sexual assault made possible by genetic genealogy. Aguilar covers public health-linked investigations too, as in a story where Toronto Public Health sought a person who handled a bat that might have rabies, providing the individual’s physical description and specific instructions on how to contact health authorities. These stories typically end with clear calls to action, sharing police or public health phone numbers and Crime Stoppers information so readers know exactly how to respond if they recognize a suspect or have relevant details.
Reporting style and format
Aguilar’s reporting style is direct and detail-oriented, shaped by the demands of breaking news. His articles open with the core fact—a serious injury, a death, a police appeal or a major transit development—and then add essential context in short, plainly written paragraphs. He relies heavily on official sources, quoting or paraphrasing police, paramedics and public health officials to establish the factual baseline of each story. Location, time and condition of those involved are consistent building blocks of his narratives, and he routinely includes descriptive details such as street intersections, ages, physical descriptions and vehicle information.
Across crime, transit and public health coverage, Aguilar’s work is distinguished by its utility: each piece is structured so that a reader can quickly grasp what happened, whether there is any ongoing risk, and what authorities are asking the public to do in response. For stories with business or service implications, such as transit labour agreements or operational disruptions, he anchors his reporting in how decisions and incidents change the experience of commuters and residents. That combination of fast, fact-heavy dispatches and attention to the real-world impact of city operations defines his role within CP24 and CTV News’ broader coverage.
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