…Wedding’s apparent capture brings to an end a search that began in 2015, when the RCMP sought to arrest him on cocaine trafficking charges after the Mounties’ large-scale Operation Harrington investigation into drug imports to Canada.
Crime
Ghislaine Maxwell is finally going to face Congress
Ghislaine Maxwell is set to testify before Congress over her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring.
Maxwell, who is in a Texas prison camp serving a 20-year sentence, is expected to appear virtually before the House oversight committee on February 9.
Murders dropped sharply in several major Canadian cities last year, data show
Homicides fell by about half last year in Toronto and Winnipeg, police data show, part of a remarkable downturn in lethal violence across Canada that experts say politicians must consider as they push stiffer sentences for violent offenders.
In 2025, several shocking killings prompted promises by politicians to deter violence by amending the Criminal Code. In April, a mass vehicle attack killed 11 people in Vancouver. In August, an eight-year-old Toronto boy was killed in his bed by a stray bullet.
Inside Canada’s Diaspora Extortion Pipeline—How Organized Crime Fraud in Student Visas, International Schools, and Mass Migration Became a Recruiting Stream for Shooting Squads
OTTAWA — Canada’s spiraling extortion crisis targeting Indo-Canadian communities is being driven by international organized crime that has exploited a whole industry of designated learning institutes and immigration consultant shops through massive fraud, coercing vulnerable student migrants into serving in extortion squads that are terrorizing families and businesses, with brazen shootings now occurring on a near daily basis in Surrey, B.C., the epicenter of a national security threat now spreading through communities in Toronto, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, The Bureau’s investigations have revealed.
Western Standard investigation exposes Hezbollah allegations and overthrow plot in Alberta’s ‘Corrupt Care’ scandal
“Is that David Wallace?” Western Standard Publisher Derek Fildebrandt asked reporter David Wiechnik after he had muted the Zoom call they were on.
“Yeah,” Wiechnik replied.
“Holy shit,” Fildebrandt said.
“That guy is the most untrustworthy guy there is.”
(Incognito)
Bettors and players fixed dozens of NCAA basketball games, prosecutors say
Sports bettors worked with dozens of players across NCAA men’s basketball to rig the outcome of at least 29 games, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Thursday.
The athletes played for schools across the country, prosecutors claim, including Tulane, St. Louis University, DePaul, Fordham and others.
Among the defendants named by prosecutors are Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, who were previously charged in a case involving an NBA coach and players. Prosecutors say Hennen and Fairley were at the head of a gambling ring that recruited college basketball players around the country to manipulate their performances in games that Fairley and Hennen bet on.
Tip of the iceberg extending to all pro sports?
Canadians increasingly frightened in their own neighbourhoods: poll
Canadians are increasingly concerned about rising crime in their communities, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll.
“New data from Angus Reid,” says Shachi Kurl, president of the institute, “shows that three-in-five (62 per cent) Canadians believe crime has been rising in their communities over the last five years. That’s a lot more than the number of Canadians who say there’s been no change (24 per cent) or a decrease (five per cent).”
As couple’s trial resumes, advocate questions Children’s Aid Society’s ‘outrageous’ decisions before boy died
With the trial for two women accused of killing a 12-year-old boy they were trying to adopt now in its final weeks, the public deserves to know if and how the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) has been held accountable, says Ontario’s former child advocate.
But full transparency from the CAS is very unlikely, said Irwin Elman, who was in the independent watchdog role from 2008 until the Ford government closed his office in 2019.
“The child protection system is a closed system,” said Elman, who’s not involved in the trial but has been closely following it.
No one will lose their job over this horror story.
Why Canadians feel unsafe despite crime rates dropping
I am one of those people who suffers from an acute, yet ephemeral, fear of flying, which washes over me the precise moment I feel the plane’s wheels lift off the tarmac. “What type of idiot risks her life in a metal box flying 30,000 feet above the ground?,” I think to myself as I look around the cabin, seeking comfort in the seemingly calm faces of the imputed idiots around me. I forget about this fear right around the moment the plane completes its ascent, only to be suffused with it yet again when the pilot announces he is ready to steer the flying metal box back down to Earth.
He was an aspiring rapper just getting his life together…
Accused in fatal Yorkdale GO bus shooting has extensive criminal history
The man accused of fatally shooting a passenger on a GO bus in North York over the weekend has an extensive criminal history, including convictions for attempted murder and firearm offences.
Shots were fired on board the packed Oshawa-bound bus around 7 p.m. on Sunday. Officers who responded to Yorkdale Station found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim, who police have not yet identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught
That Tim Walz is abandoning his reelection campaign for Minnesota governor amid a maddening multibillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal should serve as a big reminder: Democrats are robbing you every day and hardly even trying to hide it.
Recall Walz as the stereotypical self-abasing Democrat white male, presumably heterosexual, who was inexplicably chosen to be Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 election. His stint in that role was the equivalent of a 300-pound belly flop into a pool full of sand, with memorable moments like when he said he rode his bicycle as a child and was “proud of that service” or otherwise was proven to have lied when he referred to “the weapons of war that I carried in war.” (He never saw combat.)
GUNTER: Citizens don’t make distinction between crime and social disorder
You can’t reduce crime simply by redefining what is and isn’t a crime. Many actions that were once crimes are now chalked by city bureaucrats up to “social disorder” and no longer show up in crime stats.
In other cases, crimes are so common and police response to them is so indifferent — like theft of bikes and tools and law furniture from private yards — that many victims no longer bother to report them.
Driver charged after vehicle hit by train at Toronto GO station
Toronto police have charged a driver after her vehicle ended up on the tracks of a GO station and was hit by a train.
Police say it happened shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Etobicoke North GO station. A female suspect was arrested for impaired driving. The driver, who was not identified by police, sustained non-life-threatening injuries after the vehicle was struck.
Practically my back yard.
Man arrested after string of west-end sex assaults
Toronto police have a man in custody as part of an investigation into a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in the city’s west end.
My neck of the woods.
TPS Homicide boss: Getting away with murder in Toronto ‘very, very difficult’
The Toronto Maple Leafs were in second-last place, slugging it out with the Detroit Red Wings for bragging rights as the worst of the worst in the hapless Norris Division.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and The Golden Child ruled the Christmas box office. It was 1986, a different time and a very different place.
A great closure rate but I doubt that makes a difference to victims unable to adequately defend themselves.
Another take on murder rates …
Makes sense. @fancypants_s https://t.co/KH1nBeGtBk
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 30, 2025