Crime

The Ontario government has outlined a series of measures it wants to see from the federal government’s upcoming legislation meant to tighten bail reform and sentencing rules.

A joint letter sent Monday by the province’s solicitor general and attorney general is recommending a list of proposals for the federal government to increase public safety.

The list includes restoring mandatory minimum sentencing for serious crimes and removing bail availability for offenders charged with murder, terrorism, human trafficking, intimate partner violence, drug trafficking, criminal possession or use of restricted or prohibited firearms and violent carjackings and home invasions.

During a news conference announcing the arrest of a teen in the “senseless” fatal shooting of eight-year-old JahVai Roy last month, Toronto’s police chief addressed a concerning trend that is impacting communities across the city.

“We’ve been raising the alarm for the last couple of years around the rise of violence amongst young people,” Chief Myron Demkiw told reporters last week.

He pointed to a “dramatic rise” in the number of young people being arrested with illegal firearms and noted that more than a dozen young people had been charged in murder investigations in Toronto in 2025 alone.

Last week, the city of Malibu hosted a “Protect Your Property Security Workshop,” with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Malibu/Lost Hills Station as co-host. It’s an odd event: the city and the sheriff are telling people how to protect their own property. Isn’t the government supposed to do that?

This isn’t the first time Malibu has admitted to its residents that the city can’t keep them safe. In mid-May, two days before the Pacific Coast Highway re-opened to outside traffic after the L.A. fires, the Malibu City Council voted to spend $260,000 a month to hire private security guards to prevent homes from being burglarized.

Following a summer of horrific crimes — a fatal domestic assault in the street by a man on release, the stabbing of a grandmother in front of a grocery store, the execution of a loving father in front of his children during a break-in, to name a few — the Liberals want you to know that they’ve got a plan for justice reform.

It involves reforms for bail, domestic violence and hate crime — which were already reformed a few years back. Justice Minister Sean Fraser is coming into the fall session with the same old dusted-off stack of ineffective ideas that his predecessors already implemented.

Registered sex offender Daniel Senecal faces a new charge to go with the five already laid after a three-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in her Welland, Ont., home.

In St. Catharines court Wednesday morning, the 25-year-old was charged with breach of probation during a brief appearance via video, wearing green jail garb from the Toronto South Detention Centre.

Asked whether he understood the new charge, Senecal replied “yes.”

There are times when a lynching just saves money.

Two GTA men fighting extradition to the U.S. over their role in a drug trafficking syndicate allegedly led by Canadian ex-Olympian and fugitive drug lord Ryan Wedding are asking prosecutors to reveal more evidence to the defence in the wake of the apparent assassination of a “critical” FBI witness.

Gurpreet Singh, 31, and his uncle, Hardeep Ratte, 46, are in Canadian custody facing extradition for allegedly organizing shipments of more than 650 kilograms of cocaine into Canada on behalf of Wedding’s criminal enterprise.

Political crime, like the murder of Charlie Kirk, is one thing, and we are committed to crushing it – at this writing, there is a suspect in custody in Utah, which shoots criminals, and I’d hate to be his life insurance underwriter. Street crime is another issue, and after the assassination briefly took the focus off Iryna’s public transit murder, it will be back. As Republicans, solving street crime is a moral obligation as well as our ticket to victory in 2026. Luckily, the solution to the criminal disorder sweeping blue-run cities – yeah, Governor Hairstyle, the chaos in the red states is entirely within those parts of them that are deep blue – is pretty simple. It’s no secret. You simply refuse to tolerate disorder, from the worst manifestations of criminality like that shambling semi-human who decided to stab an innocent woman on a train car to the relatively minor (but still important) petty crimes like vandalism, shoplifting, fare-beating, and public disorderliness. But it’s not just actual crime that contributes to the inexcusable vibe of insecurity Dems tolerate. Some scumbag out in public who is demonstrating dominance of public spaces by acting menacingly, playing loud music, puffing on a spliff, or whatever, needs immediate and firm attention, whether by the official authorities or by citizens who understand that the government will have their back rather than the back of the miscreant.

h/t DS

OTTAWA — In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Canadians have been dying violently — a pattern pointing to the rise of a global narco-kingpin, born not in Sinaloa, Jalisco, or Cancún, but in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

In January 2022, two men were gunned down in the lobby of the Hotel Xcaret, just south of Playa del Carmen. The victims were Vancouver’s Cong Dinh — long known to police as a money launderer within Chinese networks moving synthetic narcotics into the United States and bringing cocaine from Mexico back to Canada — and Toronto’s Thomas Cherukara, both 34. Six months later, in June 2022, two more Canadians, including one on Interpol’s wanted list for fraud, were found stabbed to death in a Playa del Carmen condominium. In December 2023, Montreal’s Samy Tamouro, connected to the Hells Angels, was shot dead inside a Cancún gym. A year later, another Hells Angels associate, Quebec fugitive Mathieu Bélanger — a high-ranking cocaine trafficker wanted on firearms charges — was sprayed with bullets in broad daylight as he climbed into a new Jeep SUV at a Playa del Carmen shopping plaza, the sicarios tearing off on a motorcycle as bystanders scattered.

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.

Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.

‘I got that white girl’, muttered Decarlos Brown Jr last month, as he walked down the aisle of a train, a bloody knife still in his hand. Behind him, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska – a Ukrainian refugee on her way home from work – lay dying on the floor of the carriage.

Americans are learning this week about the urgent need to rebuild insane asylums and expand prison capacity, given the Democratic Party’s nation-killing progressive mass-release policies that have flooded city streets and communities with violent criminals, such as the one who brutally murdered a young Ukrainian refugee woman in broad daylight on public transit in North Carolina.

H/T DS