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.
U.S. prosecutors have unveiled a new trove of evidence against alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding and several Canadian associates, revealing how, after the assassination of a key federal witness, authorities doubled down on dismantling his drug empire in the lead-up to his arrest last month.
The records were filed in a Canadian court this week as the United States moves to extradite several of Wedding’s co-conspirators, and as those alleged associates continue to face bail hearings.
In February 2025, Canada listed seven transnational organized crime groups, primarily Mexican cartels, as terrorist entities, noting “their drug trafficking activities are a risk to national security and must be stopped.” In a follow-up media interview, senior RCMP officers confirmed that all listed groups were active in Canada and “very much involved in crime impacting Canada.”
The move sparked significant debate. Critics argued that terrorism is ideologically motivated, seeking political or social change through fear, whereas organized crime is driven by profit and pragmatism. While cartels use terrorist-like violence, it is typically to protect markets, eliminate rivals, or deter state interference — not to alter political structures. In this view, cartels and terrorists occupy different ends of the threat spectrum.
A glove found two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home has failed to match DNA found inside her property, investigators announced.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Tuesday that the glove offered no new leads as it also failed to match the CODIS criminal database – a national archive of all DNA from arrestees nationwide.
The glove was found on Sunday and had been briefly regarded as the best piece of evidence in the ongoing search for the 84-year-old mother of Today Show star Savannah Guthrie.
The RCMP-led Criminal Intelligence Service Canada is sounding the alarm about organized crime groups across the country seeking to infiltrate police databases and corrupt civil servants.
The warning from the police group appears in a late-January report. Last week, Ontario’s top police watchdog ordered a provincewide review of the integrity of police data, prompted by the arrests of seven serving Toronto Police officers who are accused of corruption-related criminal offences.
A year ago, Ryan Wedding was on the run and riding high.
According to investigators, he celebrated the January 2025 shooting of an FBI witness in Colombia by sending around a picture of the man’s lifeless body and bragging about how he killed the “rat.”
A lawyer in Ontario had allegedly assured Wedding that eliminating the informant would thwart the prosecution against him.
A fourth note has been sent to TMZ by somebody claiming to know what happened to Nancy Guthrie and demanding confidential payment for their information — with the outlet’s founder, Harvey Levin, asking them to prove their claims are real by revealing what they know.
“If you’re worried about getting this money, and you really do have this information, send it to us,” Harvey said in a Monday X post. “We will forward it to the FBI, and that way there’s a record that we have that you supplied this information.
An armed guard who has publicly declared his loyalty to the head of an outlaw motorcycle club is among those charged in the sweeping anti-corruption investigation that has rocked Toronto police.
Ryan Cribbie, 33, is one of 19 civilians charged in Project South, a months-long probe into corruption and organized crime that led to the arrests of seven Toronto cops and one retired officer. Among the most serious allegations levied by York Regional Police is that Toronto officers leaked confidential information to “criminal associates,” which investigators claim was used to facilitate shootings, extortions and a conspiracy to murder a jail official.
When news broke last week of the Toronto Police Service corruption that “facilitated shootings, extortions and a conspiracy to commit murder,” it felt like an escalation of the long and sometimes fraught relationship between the city and its police force.
A difficult time two years ago came to mind. Then, as now, it was municipal budget season and the police were asking for another substantial increase. As public debate swirled with a new mayor in power, the police mounted a bully campaign that the Star’s editorial board called ”emotional blackmail.” Chief Myron Demkiw insinuated calamity would ensue if they didn’t get what they demanded.
A made-in-Canada test to detect whether a criminal is a “psychopath” is outdated, unreliable, and a poor predictor of recidivism, says a University of Toronto researcher who is calling for an end to its use in criminal courts.
“We should probably consider a complete moratorium on these types of assessments,” says Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, the lead author of the largest study yet of how psychopathy tests are used in legal settings.
