On Dec. 1, 2009, the police searched a house on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, Ontario, looking for an illegal .22-caliber handgun.
Instead, they found cash — lots of it — hidden around the property, including 15,000 Canadian dollars stuffed in a heating vent in the living room floor, $9,750 in a suitcase in the garage and $1.2 million in a Rubbermaid tub that was buried under the dirt floor of the garage.
High-profile Brampton defence lawyer Deepak Paradkar has been arrested after being charged with helping a massive illegal drug organization murder witnesses, enlist corrupt lawyers and streamline drug routes.
Paradkar, who’s nicknamed “Napoleon” by GTA colleagues for his tough courtroom tactics, was charged Tuesday with plotting murders with fugitive drug kingpin Ryan Wedding, who’s accused of running a billion-dollar-a-year drug enterprise.
There’s no doubt Jeffrey Epstein thought he was a very, very smart guy. “He always thought he was the smartest person in the room,” said one associate. Another said Epstein “thought he was smarter than the next guy.” When in 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to procurement of a minor for prostitution, his defense asked for leniency based on his “unique intellect.”
U.S. and Canadian authorities announced new arrests, indictments and sanctions on Wednesday in their continuing efforts to locate, arrest and prosecute Canadian ex-Olympic snowboarder turned fugitive Ryan Wedding, who allegedly leads a transnational crime network.
Appearing at a joint news conference in Washington, D.C., with Canadian authorities, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said authorities have worked closely with international partners. Ms. Bondi unsealed a new indictment outlining new charges, including murder and witness tampering, against more of Mr. Wedding’s alleged associates and increased the reward for information leading to Mr. Wedding’s arrest from $10-million to $15-million.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said a newly unsealed indictment accuses former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding of tracking down and posting photos on a Canadian website called "The Dirty News" of a witness… to facilitate his murder in Medellin Colombia before… pic.twitter.com/uCVupafqO7
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 19, 2025
There are moments when a nation seems to drift, slowly and imperceptibly, into breakdown. Like Mike Campbell in Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, Belgium has done it “gradually, then suddenly.” The country, once the heart of Europe’s industrial miracle and the quiet administrative seat of the EU, is in big trouble. If Brussels once wished to become the Eurocrats’ Rome, an imperial capital of the new, boring, technocratic imperium that is the Union, the country has, instead, faced a storm of genuinely Gibbonian decay. In Belgium, one senses a fatigue that is deeper than political scandal or economic stagnation. It is the fatigue of a state that no longer quite believes it can govern itself.
America’s crime map is not random. And it is not evenly distributed. It forms a pattern, a persistent outline that says more about the country than any campaign speech or census brochure ever could. When you trace the safest states in America, you trace a corridor of calm: New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont’s shadow, Idaho’s long sweep of farms and foothills. Places where the pace is steady and the population overwhelmingly white. When you trace the most dangerous states, the pattern changes just as sharply — a concentration of chaos in states marked by sprawling cities, fractured communities, and the kind of “diverse” demographic makeup polite society insists you never mention.
It doesn’t get any lower and creepier than robbing graves.
This man and woman accused of doing this 300 times in Halton, Hamilton, Niagara and Toronto found a way to make it even more gross, disturbing and evil, according to police. This story is 18-karat crazy in which the accused couple are alleged to have removed jewelry from bodies resting inside GTA mausoleums.
A recent shift in how the language around child sexual abuse is being framed has come to my attention, and it is deeply disturbing. The word “pedophile” is slowly being replaced in some academic and therapeutic settings with the term MAP, meaning minor-attracted person. At first glance, it might seem harmless or even compassionate. The idea is that someone can experience an attraction without acting on it, and therefore, reducing stigma might encourage them to seek help.
It’s a statistic floated around by high-ranking police officers and Calgary’s new mayor — a relatively small number of people committing a whole lot of crime.
Ahead of a Calgary police downtown safety blitz Nov. 5, Supt. Scott Boyd said the police have a “high system user group that’s roughly around 75 individuals … [who] do a disproportionate amount of crime on any given day throughout Calgary.”
During his campaign, then-mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas used a slightly different number, pledging in his platform to “strengthen community policing with a crackdown on Calgary’s top 100 repeat violent offenders.”
A Hells Angels hitman who killed a man in Nova Scotia can’t fathom why the Parole Board of Canada takes his victim’s family’s word over his when it comes to granting him freedom.
Dean Daniel Kelsie is serving a life sentence for the October 2000 shooting death of Sean Simmons in the lobby of a Dartmouth, N.S., apartment building. The court heard Simmons was killed for having had an affair with the wife of a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Eight years after Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered, their daughter Alex Krawczyk is still holding out hope that justice will be served.
The Shermans were found dead from strangulation in the basement pool area of their home on Old Colony Road in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017, and the case has remained unsolved.
“I’m encouraged, to a small degree, that the case is still active, that [the police] haven’t since said. ‘we can’t solve this,’” Krawczyk told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning earlier this week.
Maryam Alavinasab sits at the dining room table in her two-storey home near York Mills Road and Leslie Street and cries, explaining she has barely slept in the past six days.
The mother of two daughters, aged 12 and 18, who moved to Canada from Iran seven years ago says she bought the home two years ago before gutting and re-designing it. The main floor bathroom, she says, even earned her a design award.
h/t patthedog
The police want us to know one thing about Anthony Williams, the alleged LNER knife attacker. We can only speculate about his motives, his record or whether he was responsible for an earlier attack in the London Docklands. But one fact was broadcast almost immediately: he was British-born.
The police put out a statement soon after arresting him (along with a second man, who was released afterwards):
“A 32-year-old man, a black British national, and a 35-year-old man, a British national of Caribbean descent, were both arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Both were born in the UK.
OK, he was born in the UK. So were three of the four 7/7 bombers. So were the men who murdered Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks. So were the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge stabbing attackers, the perpetrators of the Manchester Arena abomination and, of course, the Southport knife killer, Axel Rudakubana.
A 27-year-old woman was stabbed by a lunatic at a Chicago train station Saturday night — nearly three months after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was murdered by a pocketknife-wielding madman on Charlotte’s light rail system.
The victim was sitting on a bench at the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform near the University of Illinois Chicago around 11:14 p.m. when the alleged attacker plunged a knife into her chest, according to the Chicago Police Department.
This is a follow-up to my previous investigation into organized crime in the trucking industry — a story that revealed how an undercurrent of labour exploitation and immigration abuse has taken hold of a vital piece of Manitoba’s economy. That story described the hidden networks that profit from human desperation, the corruption of safety systems, and a growing web of shell companies used to launder money and evade taxes.
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