OTTAWA — Federal Conservatives are blaming Liberal criminal justice policies after Statistics Canada reported the number of violent crime incidents rose again in 2025 and stood 57% higher than a decade earlier.
Police reported 601,139 violent crimes last year, up from 597,405 in 2024, according to Statistics Canada.
VANCOUVER — When Vancouver police executed search warrants at a house on East 28th Avenue in May, what they catalogued read like the stockroom of a small department store.
More than 80 acoustic and electric guitars, hundreds of home improvement items, power tools and battery packs, over 100 containers of baby formula, designer sunglasses with price tags attached, new toiletries still in their packaging, racks of clothing from Lululemon, Aritzia and Arc’teryx with price and anti-theft tags intact, boxed electronics — and over $5,000 in cash.
Canadians have traditionally viewed national security through the familiar lens of spies, cyberattacks, military threats and terrorism. We imagine foreign adversaries stealing secrets, infiltrating government institutions or launching sophisticated cyber campaigns against critical infrastructure.
Those threats are real.
A doctor at Toronto’s SickKids hospital has been arrested on charges related to possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, police say.
Toronto police said its Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit launched an investigation in January after an electronic device was allegedly used to access and download child sexual abuse and exploitation material.
Two Toronto police officers racially profiled a group of Black and brown men sitting in a car waiting for a friend outside an apartment building, “completely invented a reason” for stopping them and then “tried to cover it up” in court, a judge has found.
In her decision critical of the “well-meaning rookie officers,” Superior Court Justice Tamara Sugunasiri excluded the evidence police said they found on a man sitting in the backseat — a loaded gun and fentanyl — and acquitted him of all charges.
“Race clearly informed the officers’ decision to detain,” Sugunasiri wrote in her decision last month.
The RCMP says 41 Canadian-linked victims and suspected perpetrators have been identified through Project Medusa, a multinational law enforcement operation targeting online networks linked to drug-facilitated sexual assault.
“The project focuses on identifying and disrupting online networks linked to drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), particularly offences occurring in intimate-partner settings and facilitated through online communities,” it said in an email to CTV News.
Prosecutors appear to have dropped several charges against the main targets of the Project South police corruption probe as the Crown moves to take the most serious allegations to trial.
Earlier this month, the Crown obtained direct indictments against all but one of the seven arrested Toronto officers, and seven other Project South accused, meaning their cases will bypass preliminary inquiries and go directly to trial in Superior Court.
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair.
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.
Tristan’s charges include two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
h/t Patti Jo
Mayoral candidate Brad Bradford is criticizing a top Toronto police official for categorizing the city as “extremely safe” in remarks that were made mere hours after a deadly shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival over the weekend.
Deputy Chief Frank Barredo told reporters on Saturday that Toronto remains “one of the safest cities in the world” despite the brazen shooting that killed two people and injured five others earlier that night.
Police investigating the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe say there is “nothing to suggest it was politically motivated”.
Devon and Cornwall Police added they are not looking for anyone else in connection with her death, following the arrest of a 28-year-old white British man in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Saturday.
The former MP and MEP, 78, was found dead at her home in Haytor, Devon, on Thursday, having sustained serious injuries. Police believe she had been attacked almost 24 hours earlier.
Police in the UK are so politicized and their record of honesty so suspect that no one should trust this finding.
There’s a surprising amount of policework that is really just not being dumb. My late father, for example, got an “attaboy” from the chief because of his diligent work solving a theft. What happened was that he simply followed the stolen lawnmower’s tracks in the dirt alley that led right to the thief.
A lot of it is much, much more complicated than that, admittedly, but sometimes, it’s just not.
The senior corrections officer targeted in an alleged murder plot that sparked the Project South probe into police corruption defended his work at Toronto South Detention Centre in court Thursday in response to allegations that he oversaw abusive practices and threatened inmates.
The allegations come from current inmate Joshua James Malcolm-Evans, who has already pleaded guilty to gun-trafficking charges unrelated to the Project South investigation.
Malcolm-Evans has filed a Charter application arguing his rights have been violated by the jail, and he is looking for a shorter sentence or stay of proceedings in his case.
Last week, the Supreme Court decided three major immigration cases, including a ruling on the scope of the Constitution’s birthright citizenship provisions. The broader immigration debate, however, remains far from settled. Disagreements persist over everything from whether and under what circumstances foreigners should be permitted to enter the United States to how vigorously existing immigration laws should be enforced, if at all. Advocates of more restrictive immigration policies and stronger enforcement tend to rely on one rationale above all others: public safety. Indeed, the extent to which immigration affects public safety is, in many ways, the central question around which the broader debate revolves.
I really wasn’t planning on writing about this today, but since it’s been blowing up on social media I kind of feel obliged to weigh in.
The Broward County, Florida Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shooting that happened at a Walmart on Tuesday. 62-year-old Bart Diguglielmo was shot and killed by a woman as the pair were arguing about a parking space.
New court documents detail an explosive link between “horrendous” allegations of corruption inside the Toronto Police Service and the alleged cross-border drug empire of ex-Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.
The documents detail not only how investigators believed that suspected Wedding drug-runner Gurpeet Singh potentially directed the attempted murder plot against a Toronto jail official, but also how he was allegedly assisted by a supervisor at the jail with whom police said he had had a prior romantic relationship.
I am encouraged at the hiring diversity of our institutions.
We now more closely resemble the 3rd World than ever before.
