Seven Ford pickup trucks were stolen by thieves on Sunday night across three locations in central Ontario, marking the latest incident in Canada’s growing trend of vehicle thefts.
The Ford F-150s, most of which were 2023 models, were pilfered from residences in Barrie, Orangeville and Mono, with at least one of the thefts being caught on video surveillance.
While noting that a man was “factually guilty” of carrying a loaded handgun, a judge recently threw out the evidence and acquitted him after finding he was racially profiled by the OPP in Huntsville.
Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell found that the OPP violated no less than five different sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when officers arrested Tyrese Douglas-Hodgson during a traffic stop in March 2020, displaying “an almost complete indifference” to his rights.
MONTREAL — The federal government will convene a national summit to tackle auto theft in Canada, after a surge in stolen vehicles in Toronto and much of the country sparked concerns the problem is funding organized crime abroad.
Arriving at a downtown Montreal hotel for two days of meetings with the federal Liberal cabinet, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Sunday evening that he wants national, provincial and municipal governments and police forces to attend the summit, which is set for Feb. 8 in Ottawa.
Once they find out that Canada’s car theft rings are primarily racialized “minorities” the Liberals will Deep Six the inquiry.
11 charged after 52 stolen vehicles worth $3.2M recovered: York cops
OTTAWA – Canada has become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as illicit trade in the country is “booming,” according to a report by an American think tank.
“Canada has become a safe zone for the world’s most notorious crime groups and threat networks that are harming Canada’s national security and imperiling the security of other nations,” warns a report published in late November by the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE).
An old buddy of mine and I called it the “Mistaken Guy” routine.
Make an outrageous claim and double down on it. Like say Pink Floyd did Satisfaction. No, no, a lot of people think it was the Stones but it was, in fact, Pink Floyd.
The videos look like they are capturing something apocalyptic.
If you didn’t know better, you would swear they were doing a film shoot in Yorkdale mall on Saturday. There were police everywhere. And some had their big guns out.
This sort of enrichment has become common at Yorkdale and that’s bad for business so it’s no wonder this event is being downplayed.
A messy fight over riches from the “Bank of Barry Sherman” has spilled into court, with one side of the family taking legal action against another six years after the billionaire Apotex founder and his wife Honey were murdered.
The application recently filed in Superior Court comes from two children of Honey’s sister and best friend Mary Shechtman — 29-year-old twins Matthew and Rebecca. They want Shermans son Jonathon and his two fellow estate trustees to provide a full accounting of a mysterious “trust” Barry set up the year before he died. The Shechtman twins believe the trust holds more than $500 million and they and other members of the extended Sherman family are entitled to some of it.
It’s a scene as old as celluloid: a shadowy figure named Luca Brasi or John Wick or Barry Berkman lurking in the darkness, outfitted with sinister intent and nifty weapons, effortlessly committing a murder for cash, animus or cold political calculations.
Whether they’re called hit men, contract killers or assassins, figures who kill for a living are a staple of Hollywood thrillers — and, by extension, the public imagination.
But experts in law enforcement and international espionage say that murders-for-hire are notoriously difficult to successfully arrange, let alone get away with.
Under the stage name T-Sav, Tyrel Hieu George Mahoney Nguyen drew on his experiences as a gangster to make music.
He may never win a Grammy, but the Surrey man’s lyrics did help earn him two life sentences this week from a B.C. Supreme Court judge who found one of Nguyen’s songs was essentially a thinly-veiled confession to the 2017 murder of gangster Randeep (Randy) Kang.
Just getting his life together too!
Academic historians avoid talking frankly about the twentieth century’s urban crime wave—and the one going on now.
In Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s shimmering portrait of 1980s New York, Sherman McCoy’s father offers his son the following advice: if you want to live in the city, “you’ve got to insulate, insulate, insulate” yourself from crime and disorder. “The cynicism and smugness of the idea struck Sherman as very au courant,” Wolfe writes. “If you could go breezing down the FDR Drive in a taxi, then why file into the trenches of the urban wars?”
Dozens of criminals found guilty of knife attacks, gunplay, drug trafficking and child pornography are among those being given lower sentences and sent back to the street sooner following a standoff between Ontario judges and the provincial government over notorious conditions in a Toronto jail dubbed “Guantanamo South.”
On Christmas Eve in Fort Langley, a suburb of Vancouver nestled into a southwest bend in the Fraser River, a group of dads, fed up with a spike in break-ins in their community (and the lack of official response), decided to spend the night before Christmas conducting a citizens’ patrol hoping to spot the thief or thieves.
Virginia Giuffre was paid £12,000 by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, she has claimed in the latest release of documents from a New York court.
The accuser said the convicted paedophile paid her for sex with the Duke of York, and that she and him went to the Tramp nightclub in London together.
The allegations, released to the public for the first time on Tuesday, were made in a 2016 deposition given by Ms Giuffre in a lawsuit she brought against Alan Dershowitz, a legal scholar.
Despite being the most high-profile prisoner in the US, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal custody at the Manhattan Correction Center in New York on August 10, 2019.
The financier, awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls, was found in his cell just after 6:30 a.m. having apparently used a length of orange bed sheet tied to the cell’s bunk bed to hang himself.
Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations.
On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019.
