Bell says it has seen a surge in copper wire thefts across its telecommunications infrastructure in 2026, which can disrupt phone and internet services.
The telecommunications company says it has recorded 993 incidents of copper theft and vandalism between January and June — a 78 per cent increase compared to the same time frame last year.
The Nigerian judge was formally dressed, the lawyers maintained legal decorum and protocol was followed – but this hearing was not in the comfortable confines of a Lagos courtroom, it was inside an alleged illicit drug laboratory in the thick of a dense forest.
Three Mexicans and seven Nigerians were paraded in handcuffs, as Justice Musa Kakaki inspected the chemicals and equipment they were accused of using to produce the harmful illegal synthetic drug, methamphetamine, commonly known as meth, crystal meth or, locally, ice.
They still don’t even know the name of the Brampton driver who allegedly ran a stop sign and slammed into their van, killing their five children.
It’s been more than six weeks since the deadly crash at the intersection of 4th Line and Wellington Rd. 12 in Mapleton Township, which claimed the lives of five Doerksen siblings — Susy, 4, Maggie, 6, Sara, 8, Helena, 10 and Peter, 12. Their parents, their 15-month-old brother and friends Peter and Elizabeth Bartsch sustained serious injuries.
A woman who was victimized by an alleged criminal network in the Greater Toronto Area for 15 years has led Halton Regional Police to the largest human trafficking bust in the force’s history.
At a news conference on Tuesday, investigators revealed the results of Project Troubadour, a 10-month sexual exploitation investigation that was initiated after the victim reported the criminal activity to police in September.
Toronto police conducted 2,365 drone flights in 2025 to assist with criminal investigations, searches for missing persons, and other operations, according to an annual report recently presented to the Toronto Police Service Board.
Police used air support capabilities—which include drones and helicopters—to improve response times, situational awareness, and public safety outcomes, the report says.
In late 2025, Harvard Kennedy School professor Sandra Susan Smith expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s decision to target a dozen American cities—including Oakland, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and Washington, D.C.—for temporary federal law-enforcement and National Guard deployments aimed at reducing crime and restoring order. Smith wondered “about what the consequences for deploying federalized forces are, especially for black and brown people in the cities that have been targeted for intervention.” She continued: “What seems clear to me is that the costs that are associated with this federal intervention will far outweigh the meager and very short-term benefits.”
One of the targeted cities was Memphis.
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.
