A woman is facing assault charges after allegedly stabbing another woman during a road rage incident in Oshawa on Canada Day.
Durham Regional Police were called to the area of Lakeview Park and Simcoe Street around 7:20 p.m. on July 1.
Investigators say a 53-year-old woman was involved in a road rage altercation with a 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. The 53-year-old woman allegedly brandished a knife and the other two people responded by deploying bear spray.
Pity there’s no video!
Becky Hamber, 47, and Brandy Cooney, 45, were sentenced today in a in Milton, Ont., court to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a 12-year-old and torturing his younger brother. They also were given consecutive, concurrent terms for forcible confinement and other crimes.
Since mid-April, Joseph Kidd of the Northern Alberta city of Grande Prairie, has been arrested on sexual assault charges three times and released shortly after each arrest, only to allegedly reoffend within a matter of days.
Anyone wondering whether the justice system is failing Canadians need look no further than the Kidd case. Should the charges against him stand up in court, you’d have to wonder why he was put back on the streets to reoffend after the first time, much less the third.
As Project South investigators swept across the Greater Toronto Area, arresting several cops as well as the network of alleged criminals they’re accused of conspiring with, a group of officers descended on a North York car lot.
During that Feb. 4 raid on Lecos Auto Sales, officers seized a Ford F150 that was listed for sale.
According to authorities, the truck had a vehicle identification number belonging to another F150 that had been shipped out of Canada in 2024. The vehicle’s “true VIN,” authorities allege, matched that of a truck that had been stolen from Toronto streets nearly two years earlier.
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton walked into federal court with a very stern expression before admitting to stealing national security secrets.
He pleaded guilty on Friday to a single charge of retaining classified information – a significant update in his criminal case, and one that may help him avoid a lengthy jail sentence.
Under the terms of the deal, Bolton could serve up to 60 months, or 5 years, in prison in exchange for his guilty plea. He may also be required to pay a fine of up to $2.25 million and serve 100 hours of community service.
Two teens sat in the prisoner’s box wearing blank expressions as they watched chilling videos of themselves carrying out a series of brazen contract shootings two years ago — a stark illustration of recent warnings that young hired guns are behind cycles of bloodshed in the Toronto area.
Prosecutors played the videos on Wednesday at the downtown Toronto courthouse during the sentencing hearing of R.R. and K.A., two teens who pleaded guilty earlier this month to multiple counts of reckless discharge of a firearm and accessory after the fact to reckless discharge of a firearm. The hearing took place at the same time a funeral was underway for Toronto police Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, allegedly shot to death by a 19-year-old working for a gun-for-hire network.
Not the brightest hires.
A ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie – the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie – said the 84-year-old had died, CNN and other news organizations are reporting, citing law enforcement sources.
Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes tied to the case in the days after Guthrie’s disappearance in early February from her home in the foothills just outside Tucson, Arizona.
A busy Montreal neighbourhood went into lockdown Monday after an armed standoff at a hotel in Côte-des-Neiges left a police officer, a civilian and a suspect dead. Another officer and a bystander were injured in the attack.
The shooting marked the third time an officer in Canada was killed in less than two weeks, raising questions about whether violence against officers is increasing. It also came one day after two RCMP officers responding to a call for help in Melville, Sask., were shot and injured.
But researchers who track police deaths say the number of officers killed on duty this year remains within the historical range — and officers are less likely to die as a result of violence now than in past decades.
Toronto’s police chief recently described a pattern that should unsettle anyone who saw the recent shootings at synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.S. consulate as unrelated hate crimes. Police say a network of criminals-for-hire has been linked to 27 firearm discharges across the city – recruiting young adults online, paying them to fire on the exterior of a chosen building, and requiring a video of the act before any money is released.
Canada faces a serious crime problem, but many Canadians believe crime is relatively low compared with the United States. That perception largely stems from a misunderstanding of how crime is measured.
How much of that is crime tourism and diversity crime?
Around 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning in March, a gunman got out of a car on a quiet street near the waterfront in Oakville. Almost immediately, he opened fire.
An accomplice stood beside him, apparently filming the attack on a phone as the gunman shot at a stone house with a double-car garage, according to neighbours who later watched the incident unfold on their security footage.
Suddenly there was a flash from across the street. Someone was firing at the pair. They scattered.
Last August, Decarlos Brown Jr.—a mentally ill repeat offender out on bail—allegedly stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte light rail train. Video of the shocking murder prompted widespread outrage, pushing the North Carolina legislature to pass a law named for Zarutska and meant to overhaul the state’s criminal justice and mental-health system.
The 14-year-old Pickering teen was obsessed with serial killers and told his gaming friend that unlike his heroes, he wouldn’t get caught.
Thankfully, he was wrong — but not before he took the life of an innocent stranger who was simply outside raking the leaves.
Given the perp is both Muslim and a minor he’ll get a ludicrous sentence reduced by time served.
Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who was accused of sexually assaulting several women decades ago, has been found guilty of sexual assault and indecent assault.
Stronach, who is 93, pleaded not guilty to 12 charges stemming from alleged incidents involving seven complainants.
Seeking “approval” from gangs, Awet Asfaha walked up to a total stranger on Mount Olive Drive in 2009 and pumped three shots into his back, the convicted murderer has testified in his bid to get early parole from a life sentence.
“To gain stripes,” Awet Asfaha told a jury at his “faint hope” hearing, explaining the shooting was like an initiation into gang membership. “To be taken more serious.”
