Crime

The man accused of ramming numerous Toronto Police cruisers near Moss Park on Thursday night has dozens of criminal convictions and was out on bail for auto theft at the time of his arrest.

Police say the suspect, behind the wheel of stolen white Hummer, slammed into police vehicles on George St. between Queen St. E. and Richmond St. E. just before 10:15 p.m.

The man, who the Sun has learned is 32 years old, has 75 criminal convictions against him.

If I didn’t know better I would suggest an unspoken cultural component may be a factor.

The man charged in a shooting outside a London hospital emergency room is also facing charges from an armed home invasion and a gun-point bank robbery in the Toronto region in the weeks following the gunfire here.

TORONTO — Lawyers are set to begin legal arguments today for four girls scheduled to face trial this year over their alleged role in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto.

The teens are part of a group police allege swarmed and stabbed Kenneth Lee, a 59-year-old man who was living in the city’s shelter system, in December 2022.

Eight girls between the ages of 13 and 16 were arrested in the hours after Lee’s death.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week (or just living in the UK), you know about the sudden earthquake of activity surrounding the Asian Grooming Gangs (Rape Rings) that have been operating in Britain for more than 25 years. Everyone is referring to them as Asian, but that’s a disservice to 47 out of 48 of the countries in Asia because most of these “Asian” rapists are from just one country, Pakistan. In America, we, too, have a group of people disproportionately responsible for crime: blacks.

The Finance Department says mortgage fraud and money laundering are getting worse in Canada as delayed new laws are set to take effect on Oct. 1, 2025 affecting realtors and title insurers, reports Blacklock’s Reporter.

“The Canadian real estate market has been identified as a sector highly vulnerable to money laundering,” the department wrote in a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement.

Ask anyone from China.

Nothing seemed strange about what happened on Aug. 6, 2022, at least not at first. Just after lunchtime, a man walked into a suburban Shoppers Drug Mart and started filling his cart with big-ticket items — teeth-whitening kits and electric toothbrushes, cleaning products, a curling iron. By the time he was done, his bill was $2,452.41.

At the self-checkout, he hit some buttons and took his receipt. As he was leaving, the security alarm went off, but he waved the receipt in the air, as though there had been some mistake, and continued out into the plaza’s parking lot in Milton, Ont., about 50 kilometres northwest of Toronto.

Gangsters are converting imitation guns used for historical re-enactments and school sports days into lethal weapons at “firearm factories” across the country.

Revolvers, British Bren machine guns and German MP 40 submachine guns are among the replica firearms being altered to fire live ammunition.

Last year the number of discharges from converted imitation, antique or blank weapons outnumbered those by real firearms for the first time (64 compared with 42).

Boards of Trade in three cities have petitioned the Senate’s Transport and Communications Committee to amend the Criminal Code to enhance the protection of the nation’s telecommunications networks from copper theft, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

“Copper theft is a growing problem across the country with thieves targeting critical infrastructure for short-term monetary gain,” wrote the Surrey, B.C. Board of Trade. “This crime is not only disrupting essential telecommunications services, leading to outages that affect homes and businesses, but it is also endangering public safety.”

If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller The Tipping Point, published 25 years ago. In the book’s most-discussed chapter, Gladwell sought to explain why New York City, in the 1990s, suddenly experienced the greatest drop in violent crime ever recorded. True, other cities saw crime declines in this period, but nowhere else did crime plunge so significantly and so swiftly. In just a few years, New York went from being one of the most dangerous and frightening big cities in America to one of the safest. Why?

In May, the Ford government announced auto theft had gotten so bad that it would bring in a harsh new penalty; convicted thieves would have their driver’s licence suspended for 10 years.

“Driving is a privilege, not a right. If you’re shameful enough to prey on other members of the community for your own reckless gain, you’ll lose that privilege,” Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said.

But as of Dec. 10, the Ministry of the Attorney General confirmed Bill 197, which included the licence suspension measure, “has not been proclaimed into force yet.”

No question about it. Americans are fed up with criminals.

Manatee County, Florida Sheriff Rick Wells on home invasion:

“I praise this husband for doing what he needed to do to protect his home and protect his family. If you’re gonna be that brazen to come into my home… you should expect that you’re gonna be shot.”

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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 27, 2024