A Canadian man who sold toxic chemicals to people who went on to kill themselves should “rot in hell”, the mother of a British woman who took her own life has said.
Imogen Nunn, known as Immy, died at her Brighton flat in January 2023 aged 25 after buying a substance online from Kenneth Law.
The hunt for the elusive Mr. Big is on. Make that Mr. Bigs.
Police across Toronto and the GTA have task forces with catchy names, like Project Joker, Poacher, Vector and Chickadee. Ontario has poured millions of dollars into boosting enforcement. Hundreds of undercover officers have nabbed hundreds of thieves as young as 11 for all kinds of car theft, from simple driveway jobs to violent home invasions and even more violent carjackings. Special prosecutors have been assigned in an attempt to make charges stick.
The president of the Belleville, Ont., synagogue where shooting erupted between a man and local police Sunday evening says the incident left congregants in shock and the building partly damaged.
“But once we get the building back, we will continue with our services. We will continue with our programming,” Norm Weddum says.
“This is not going to stop us.”
Was it suicide by cop or an act of terror? We can’t know without more info.
And now we may never know, as the Shooter has died.
New York’s Gov. Hochul just signed legislation protecting illegal alien criminals. Meanwhile some people keep mysteriously carrying out machete attacks.
In the old days, when a horse was stolen, they’d round up the thief and hang him. That’s a half-serious, half-joking refrain among victims the Star has spoken to.
Today, much to the consternation of vehicle owners, car thieves are almost never caught, and if they are, the public belief is that they get a slap on the wrist. A Star review of 20 criminal cases that made it to an Ontario courtroom over the past five years shows that is partly true. Since the car theft “crisis” began in 2020, sentences have ranged from no jail time to under two years in most cases, and two to four years in a few cases, particularly for home invasion and carjacking thefts where the person is a repeat offender.
On a day in late January, Toronto detective Antonio D’Onofrio took his place in a Newmarket courtroom.
He was one of hundreds who’d worked on the months-long investigation now known as Project South, a case that began as a probe into an armed home invasion targeting a manager at a Toronto jail but had since ballooned into one of the largest investigations of criminal corruption in the Toronto Police Service’s history.
D’Onofrio, an officer with Toronto police’s professional standards unit, was seeking a justice of the peace’s sign-off to execute a series of raids that would see several of his fellow officers arrested.
With the grace of a major league pitcher, Naz Tokhi’s partner-in-crime plants his feet, transfers his weight back, then explodes forward with a snap of his right arm, firing a carefully selected rock through the glass of a front door. He reaches in, turns the lock, and both men enter the Toronto home, running shoes crunching over shattered glass.
Tokhi’s goal is to obtain the car keys belonging to a $140,000 BMW parked in a Toronto driveway. He will do this 10 times over a span of two months. When he is caught, he will be released on bail, then allegedly go back to stealing cars. The vehicles he and his crew take are worth between $80,000 and $200,000.
Sounds like bad immigration policy.
The man on the other end of the jailhouse phone wondered how Almar Heath had been so reckless.
Heath, 29, was locked inside the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay after he and two teenagers were arrested outside a Toronto jail official’s home in June 2025. Police say they seized a loaded handgun.
Heath and the teens were charged with conspiring to murder the official — an incident that ultimately led York Regional Police to launch Project South, which became a sprawling investigation into alleged corruption within the Toronto Police Service.
TORONTO — Police uncovered the alleged corruption at the heart of Project South only after investigating a plot to murder a senior Toronto corrections official, a discovery that Ontario Superior Court Justice Laura Bird said should deeply concern the public.
Investigators allege the plot was connected to Gurpreet Singh, an inmate at the Toronto South Detention Centre accused of distributing cocaine for Ryan Wedding.
The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is speaking out, saying that he “didn’t have any doubts” during the jury’s deliberations of the case which ended in a mistrial.
“I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present,” the 48-year-old male juror, Michael P Desronvil, said in a statement to NewsNation on Thursday.
Just another of the GTA’s colorful restaurants enhancing our diversity.
Toronto Const. Timothy Barnhardt was unaware a recording device had been hidden inside his police cruiser as he invited an alleged drug dealer into the passenger seat.
Barnhardt showed the man the computer screen attached to the centre console, where the veteran officer could search confidential databases containing people’s home addresses. Police allege that Barnhardt had been feeding the information gleaned from the searches to criminals, who used it to conduct shootings, robberies and other violent acts.
The US has designated Ecuador’s Los Tiguerones gang, which stormed a television station during a live broadcast in 2024, as a terrorist organisation as the Trump administration expands its campaign against narcotics traffickers it says are destabilising Latin America.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, made the announcement in Quito, where he met Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa, one of several rightwing allies of Donald Trump whom Rubio is courting as a security partner during a three-nation tour through Latin America that began on Tuesday.
Teens accused of assaulting, threatening seniors in shocking GO Transit video
A video posted online depicting a group of girls assaulting a pair of elderly GO Train passengers is sparking outrage. And according to the daughter of the elderly couple targeted in the video, Metrolinx staff responded with indifference when told of the incident.
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A woman has been arrested after police say her two dogs attacked a person and their dog near a midtown Toronto park on Thursday.
Police say they were notified Saturday after receiving reports of the attack, which took place at a park near Avenue Road and Roxborough Street.
The victim was walking their dog near an off-leash fenced area of the park when the suspect’s two dogs escaped the enclosure, police said.
