Western Canada home to the country’s most dangerous organized crime groups: report

Western Canada is home to four criminal organizations considered high-level threats to national security, according to Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.

The federal agency released its 2024 Public Report on Organized Crime, which contains data from law enforcement across the country.

The report found that “organized crime remains a preeminent threat to Canada’s security, contributing to thousands of deaths annually from overdoses due to illicit drugs, as well as firearms and gang violence.”

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‘Kids are scared’: Random attacks have residents of small-city N.L. shaken

Mount Pearl resident Bailey Rempel says life for her and her young family simply hasn’t been the same since her husband was assaulted by a group of young people at after-school pick-up in late November.

“There are things that don’t make it into the headlines,” she told a public meeting of concerned citizens this week. “How my husband hasn’t been able to work a full day yet, and how our house stays dark now because the lights make his head hurt.”

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Multiple people stabbed in downtown Vancouver, suspect shot

Multiple people have been hurt in a stabbing rampage in Vancouver, cops have said.

Vancouver Police said officers were responding to a ‘violent incident’ near Robson Street and Hamilton Street in the city’s downtown just after 3pm on Wednesday.

‘A number of people have been stabbed, and the suspect has been shot by police. We’ll provide more info when it’s available,’ the department said on X.

That last bit made me laugh out loud.

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Closing arguments in Daniel Penny’s trial reminds us (yet again!) that progressives possess not one good quality

The Soros-funded attorneys in Manhattan are throwing all they’ve got against Daniel Penny to see what sticks: race was obviously not a factor, a reality with which no one disagrees (there are no “hate crime” charges), but that seems to be the prosecution’s concluding gambit. Here’s what Alvin Bragg’s surrogate Dafna Yoran had to say in her closing arguments, via a report out at Fox News today…

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Crime rates in Canada and the U.S. are not what you might think

The numbers often aren’t strictly comparable, given differences in definitions, but rates of growth are, and they aren’t favourable

Here in Canada, with our mantra of “peace, order and good government,” we view our country as a peaceable kingdom marked by less crime than our American cousins, with their “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Much of our self-assurance on this point is because, as noted in a new study of mine published by the Fraser Institute, homicides rates have always been higher in the United States than in Canada.

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The crime messenger

In February 2021, a sinister plot to assassinate two Iranian dissidents living in the U.S. state of Maryland was underway.

The alleged hired guns were two Canadian criminals — Damian Ryan, a full patch member of the Hells Angels, and Adam Pearson. They had been recruited by Naji Sharifi Zindashti, a drug trafficker close to the Iranian regime, according to a U.S. indictment.

They communicated with each other on highly secure phones using Sky ECC, an encrypted messaging platform developed by Sky Global in Vancouver.

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‘No one is safe’: Ontario residents see spike in home break-ins by trails, green spaces

Residents in Oakville, Ont. are on high alert as break-ins targeting homes backing onto green spaces and trail systems have surged since October.

For Maqsood Soomro, whose home borders a green space, the break ins have been an ongoing horror. His property has been targeted three times, with the most recent incident involving an attempt to steal his car, despite having a mobilizer installed.

“They think they can get away with it,” Soomro said. “My family is very uncomfortable now, I’m sure it will happen again.”

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Hamilton Experience May Indicate Diversity Is Oversold

Police say 24 arrested, 172 charges laid in Hamilton street gang investigation

Police in Hamilton, Ont., say two dozen people have been arrested and 172 charges have been laid in an investigation into a street gang allegedly responsible for violent crime across the province.

They say the investigation, dubbed Project Churchill, began in 2019 when police noted a “significant rise” in violent crime in downtown Hamilton linked to a gang self-identified as the Hot Mali Squad.

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The Prosecution Of Daniel Penny Is A Soviet-Style Attack On The Right Of Self-Defense

American justice has become politicized — a weapon against enemies with hall passes for favored groups. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and dozens of big city, George Soros-funded leftist district attorneys routinely prosecute innocent citizens while letting criminals walk free.

The actions of these powerful officers of the law fit a pattern that the great Soviet-era Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn not only would have recognized, but he also detailed.

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