Melanie Ward remembers the moment she learned her son was dead with haunting clarity.
“I just dropped to my knees and screamed,” she said.
Her son, Alexander Circiumaru, was on his way to an appointment in downtown Hamilton earlier this year but never made it.
The 19-year-old was shot multiple times in broad daylight on March 6 in what Hamilton police believe was a targeted attack. Circiumaru was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A Canadian trucker has been arrested and charged following a massive dope bust in Port Huron.
The Ford government is extending the legal definition of a highway to include parking lots in response to a request from provincial police forces that say they’re struggling to tackle increasingly complicated cases of careless driving and noisy late-night car rallies.
The changes come through new transport and safety legislation the provincial government plans to pass with a focus on enhancing police powers over auto theft and driving offences.
#WATCH: Failed Drift Attempt Almost Crushed Pedestrian inNorth York pic.twitter.com/GJrjQJbCUB
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) November 2, 2024
Mounties in British Columbia have discovered the “largest and most sophisticated” drug-production laboratory in Canadian history, federal investigators announced Thursday, describing the facility as a “super lab” operated by international organized criminals.
The facility, located east of Kamloops in the rural community of Falkland, was capable of producing several kilograms of methamphetamine, fentanyl and MDMA per week, David Teboul, an assistant commissioner with the federal RCMP in the Pacific region, announced at a news conference in Surrey.
BC RCMP announce bust of largest drug “superlab” in Canadian history.
Officers seized a 1/2 tonne of hard drugs, 89 firearms, $500,000 in cash, and an unprecedented amount of precursor chemicals. #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/EOkN8dKq0Z
— Jarryd Jäger (@JarrydJaeger) October 31, 2024
I smell diversity.
In the summer of 2023, a Canadian taxpayer logged into his Canada Revenue Agency account, falsely amended previous tax returns and wrongly claimed he was suddenly owed more than $40 million in refunds.
Then, without verifying the newly filed tax slips, the Canada Revenue Agency authorized the payments and promptly began making the initial instalments, according to sources.
An investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada has learned the scam might never have been detected, except for one thing.
h/t Patti Jo
The Surrey Police Union has slammed Justin Trudeau over his claim that the Liberals’ gun ban achieved its intended goal.
They argued that the policy did little to prevent firearms from making their way into Canada from the United States.
The loved ones of single mom Kassidy Ballantyne-Holmes never got the firearms memo.
The 35-year-old Stratford woman was shot to death early on Oct. 15. Her family and friends are now trying to make sense of her senseless slaying.
Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the… https://t.co/DOyjfCXHfe
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) October 22, 2024
h/t Mauser
Fentanyl made in Canada by criminals is increasingly being shipped to international markets, according to a briefing note from the department of foreign affairs.
“Seizures of Canada-sourced fentanyl in places like the U.S. and Australia suggest that domestic production is likely exceeding domestic demand, and that Canada is now a source (and transit) country for fentanyl to some markets,” said the briefing note from June, which was first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
He’s gonna serve all of 3 years with time served factored in. That’ll show him.
I bet reading the victim statements gets him off on appeal.
A Canadian snowboarder who competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics is wanted by the F.B.I. on charges of conspiring to ship hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada and the United States and on suspicion of orchestrating multiple murders, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Central District of California announced in a statement on Thursday.
The snowboarder, Ryan James Wedding, 43, born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, was indicted along with 15 others on charges of running a transnational drug trafficking operation that shipped bulk quantities of cocaine from California to Canada from about January to April 2024, the U.S. attorney’s office said in its statement. Mr. Wedding, a fugitive who was believed to be living in Mexico, was charged with eight felonies including one count of conspiracy to export cocaine and three counts of murder in connection with a drug crime.
Police north of Toronto have released video of what they’re describing as a violent, targeted robbery in Thornhill, where suspects boxed in the victim’s car and made off with a suitcase filled with cash.
#WATCH: Man gets violently robbed for a luggage bag full of money he took out just minutes earlier, at a cash exchange store in Thornhill yesterday. pic.twitter.com/MyStAD6l8w
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) October 9, 2024
The agency’s process is shrouded in mystery, and its numbers are often inconsistent.
The mainstream media has recently trumpeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimate that violent crime fell 3 percent nationally from 2022 to 2023. They have largely ignored, however, the latest iteration of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which found a 9 percent increase in property crime in urban areas over that span—part of a 26 percent rise in urban property crime, alongside a whopping 40 percent surge in urban violent crime, from 2019 to 2023.
Set aside, for a moment, the media’s downplaying of BJS’s inconvenient urban-crime data. Are the FBI’s statistics really precise enough to make much of a reported 3 percent annual change in violent crime?
ILLEGAL SALMON RUN FISHING IN GTA IS OVERWHELMING AUTHORITIES
…according to this resident who monitors the area pic.twitter.com/HHj7B9n23K
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) October 8, 2024
A quiet community two hours northwest of Edmonton became a site of true human horror last month when a young woman of only 18 — dressed for a night out in the city, not a weekend of camping — was found bleeding from numerous stab wounds in a ditch. Her attackers had dumped her there to die.
And because those accused of butchering her were under 18, there’s a good chance we’ll never get to learn their names, even if they are convicted.
The man accused of shooting a Toronto police officer in the abdomen Wednesday night was out on bail at the time, the Star has learned.
A 21-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night and is expected to be in court Thursday in connection with the shooting on Lillian Street near Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue.
Better info from the Sun: Suspected cop shooter described as ‘complete ass****’
