VANCOUVER — A Canadian court ruling ends in an anti-SLAPP win for a journalist who reported on a China-connected wealth and spiritual group that first raised alarms with videos of military-style training on Vancouver Island, and has since drawn headlines from India to France, where Le Monde also reported on the murder of one of the group’s employees in Vancouver and its efforts to embed itself in French society.
When his trial began in February, Frank Stronach faced 12 counts related to seven female complainants whose allegations included sexual assault and the historical charges of rape and attempted rape.
Now, with all the evidence heard and closing submissions set for the end of the month, those charges have been whittled down to seven — related to four of the initial seven complainants.
That the Crown has decided to drop five charges, and discard the testimony of three complainants, has raised some questions about the initial strength of some of their cases and whether enough was done beforehand to anticipate potential problems.
A staff sergeant at a Toronto super jail has been criminally charged in the wake of the massive police corruption probe, Project South.
Muhamer Oruglica is accused of directing another staff member at the Toronto South Detention Centre to unlawfully search an inmate on the jail’s database last September.
York police arrested the 35-year old in late February, just weeks after announcing the results of a months-long investigation that uncovered Toronto cops had allegedly leaked confidential information used to facilitate shootings, extortion and other crimes — including a plot to murder a manager known for his strict enforcement inside the Toronto jail.
SWIFT CURRENT — The Federal Crown has stayed all charges against two Calgary residents who were arrested last year after nearly 8 kilograms — roughly 17.5 pounds — of fentanyl were found hidden in their vehicle during a traffic stop on the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan.
Swati Narula, 27, and Kunwardeep Singh, 29, each faced one count of trafficking a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking. The Public Prosecution Service of Canada entered written stays of proceedings against Narula on February 24 and against Singh on February 27, Swift Current Online reported Monday.
Blocks away from Manhattan federal court, a distraught fashion model sat on a street corner, wiping tears from her face and gesturing in disbelief as a family friend tried to console her.
Only moments earlier, Shani Zigron had sat in the gallery on Monday evening, watching as a jury sealed the fate of her husband, Alon Alexander, and his two real estate scion brothers, Oren and Tal, convicting them on all counts in a sprawling sex trafficking conspiracy dating back more than a decade.
The once high-flying siblings now face the possibility of life in prison.
The brothers were worse than Epstein.
International drug crime poses a danger to social stability in Belgium, a senior judge has said, after his colleague warned the country was evolving into “a narco-state” where mafia groups were forming “a parallel force” in society.
Bart Willocx, the president of the Antwerp court of appeal, said Belgium was vulnerable to criminality from drug smuggling through the city’s vast port, one of the main entry points into Europe for cocaine smugglers.
“The amount of money that is involved – to influence people, to corrupt people and to bribe – it is so big that it is really a danger for the stability of our society,” he told the Guardian in an interview at his court.
When organized crime investigators announced the takedown of an auto-theft ring stealing luxury vehicles from Toronto Pearson Airport 25 years ago, one name stuck out on the list of accused.
For years, Toronto Police Constable Andrew Kostorowski had allegedly been doing illegal computer checks for a tow-truck driver and a body shop owner involved with a criminal syndicate. The group, police said, were selling stolen cars and deliberately damaging others to defraud insurance companies. Constable Kostorowski pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit breach of trust in October, 2002.
In the years since, police officers have faced remarkably similar allegations in cities across Canada and the United States: Baltimore. Boston. Buffalo. Chicago. Detroit. New York. Miami. Ottawa. Toronto again – and then, Toronto again.
TORONTO — Brian Da Costa, the central narco-trafficking suspect in an explosive Toronto police corruption case — one that allegedly enlisted serving officers to traffic drugs and to help target a jail official for murder — has been connected to Gurpreet Singh, the Indo-Canadian trucker that U.S. prosecutors describe as a key cross-border smuggler in the billion-dollar cocaine trafficking network of former Olympian turned Sinaloa Cartel heavyweight Ryan Wedding.
A central figure accused in the Project South police corruption probe has been linked in court documents to an alleged accomplice of cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding, connecting for the first time the two sprawling investigations into organized crime in Canada.
Brian Da Costa, an alleged drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto police officers and leaking computer data later used in organized crime intimidation campaigns, has been ordered not to contact Gurpreet Singh − a Toronto-area man who allegedly conspired to transport hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada for the Wedding network.
OTTAWA — In this episode, former senior Mountie Garry Clement joins Sam Cooper to answer a question that should unsettle every Canadian: how does a figure like Ryan Wedding — an Olympic athlete from Coquitlam — end up becoming one of the most feared Sinaloa Cartel operatives in North America? The answer, Clement argues, has less to do with Wedding himself than with the country that made his rise possible.
Darren Pepin’s mother was happy that Darren Scott Ray got what was coming to him.
A life sentence for the heinous 1986 Toronto sex slaying of Darren, who was just 14. The less charitable among us would suggest the end of a rope would be a more fitting conclusion.
Toronto Star, Oct. 27, 1987 https://t.co/4HjSex0b1c pic.twitter.com/sUTvoQrYcK
— Chris Selley (@cselley) March 3, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
The office of Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is the latest agency to launch an investigation related to the sprawling allegations in the Project South police corruption probe.
In an e-mail on Friday, Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim said her office hasn’t been officially asked by the government to consult on any matters related to Project South, nor has it been notified of any privacy breaches by police.
Count that has 10 guns seized by Peel Police front line officers so far in 2026.
That’s more than one a week.
I hope they had to spend most of a day in jail!
Nine guns in eight weeks. That’s how many deadly weapons frontline Peel Regional Police officers have seized in the field in 2026.
And also dozens of bullets.
The mysterious masked figure who was seen trying to obscure Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera on the night of her abduction is said to have visited the house before.
Federal investigators released eerie footage of the unidentified suspect standing at Guthrie’s front door in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours on February 1.
Police have yet to arrest any suspects or produce any concrete leads into the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.
