Lexy Benedict
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reporter @globalnewsto 🎤 💌[email protected] ✨ previously @ctvbarrienews, @theweathernetwork & @globaldurham
Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2014
✨Personal News✨🎤 I’m so excited to be joining the Global News Toronto team as a reporter/ videographer!
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RT @DamnitMaurie: Hours together, endless crowds, freezing temps—and still all smiles. It’s a lot easier spending long days side by side wh….
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Coverage from Sunday, March 30th ❄️
This morning after spending the day reporting in Barrie yesterday for @globalnewsto. Too close to home — mass destruction in Barrie after the ice storm this weekend — after going to bed with no power last night. Trees coming down, the sound crackling . insane.
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RT @AaronDAndrea21: ‘Fairly big’: Ontario gas prices drop as Ottawa ends consumer carbon price. New on @globalnewsto with @LexyBenedict 👇….
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Tuesday marked the end of Ottawa’s consumer fuel charge after Mark Carney signed an order-in-council to remove it when he was sworn in as prime minister last month.
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This morning after spending the day reporting in Barrie yesterday for @globalnewsto. Too close to home — mass destruction in Barrie after the ice storm this weekend — after going to bed with no power last night. Trees coming down, the sound crackling . insane.
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RT @AnthonyFarnell: I’ve lived through many ice storms and although the forest looks really bad now in the hardest hit areas, most of these….
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RT @TheNoorRafat: BREAKING: Mass shooting near Scarborough Town Centre. Toronto Police confirm 12 people have been injured. No info on s….
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RT @isaaccallan: NEW: Ontario's tariff response has started with U.S. alcohol gone from the LCBO, Starlink deal ripped up (again) and a ban….
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Ontario's main liquor store has begun removing U.S. alcohol from its shelves and website in response to tariffs imposed on Canadian goods by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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RT @AaronDAndrea21: Toronto winter storms may take 3 weeks to clear with snow removal: city. via @gabbyrodriguess #….
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Toronto is once again in winter snowstorm cleanup mode on Monday for Family Day after getting dumped this weekend by a third major snowfall in a week.
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RT @ConsumerSOS: Toronto Pearson Airport investigating landing ‘incident’ involving U.S. flight | by @AaronDAndrea….
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A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Minneapolis crashed at the airport around 2:30 p.m., resulting in the closure of the airport as emergency crews worked to respond.
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#TODAY: Devastating news out of Hamilton today. 3 people are dead, including two children and an adult after a fire broke out at an apartment in the city’s north end. Officials say 19 people are injured. OFM has been called in to investigate. @globalnewsto
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#TODAY: Police say a man in his 20s has died following a “wounding incident” in the area of Bloor St W & Madison Ave. Police are canvassing the area, and have blocked off Paul Martel Park. We’ll have more for you on @globalnewsto tonight at 6pm & the Global TV app. 📲📺
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#TODAY: An elderly male has died and two adult males are in hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a 3-alarm house fire broke out this morning in Brampton at a home on Buick Blvd. OFM has been called in. Full story on @globalnewsto at 6pm or on the Global TV app 📲📺
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RT @TheNoorRafat: @DRPS #NEW: @LawrenceGridin, representing one of the officers, tells @LexyBenedict: . “…These charges are wrong, and we i….
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#BREAKING: The SIU has charged two Durham Regional Police officers in the fatal wrong-way collision in Whitby that killed two grandparents and a three-month old baby in April 2024. @globalnews.
July 26, 2024: We learned more details from Durham Regional Police on the events that led up to the deadly and tragic fatal crash in April on Highway 401 that took the lives of four people, including a three month old baby. For more info, please go to
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First story of 2025 🎤📺 . Residents in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood are stepping up their local Lucky Convenience store, after it was robbed just before Christmas Eve. A GoFundMe raised the lost revenue back in just a day and a half. On @globalnewsto at 6pm or on the app
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This is absolutely out of control. More shots fired at homes in Durham, this time in Ajax. This would be the 7th shooting within the last week, and the 3rd shooting in the region within the span of 48 hours. On Wednesday shots were fired in Oshawa, and Thursday, it was Whitby.
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RT @Chief_Moreira: Again last night we saw 14 shots fired into a housing complex in Oshawa. Families were home sleeping while one or more….
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