Crime

Smash-and-grab crime crippled retailers in Democratic-controlled cities across the United States throughout 2023.

Also known as “flash mob” robberies, smash-and-grabs are defined as criminal actions conducted after “breaking a window of a car, store, etc., and stealing whatever can be taken quickly.”

Copper may no longer be used to make Canadian coins, but thieves who target the valuable metal still cost British Columbians a pretty penny.

The rose-coloured hardware is found in electrical wiring, transformers and pipes, and can be sold for anywhere from $2 to $4 per pound — making homes, construction sites and public infrastructure a prime target for thieves.

The safety risks theft carries were made painfully clear earlier this year, when RCMP said theft-weakened copper gas lines in downtown Prince George caused an explosion that sent three people to hospital, one of whom sustained severe burns all over her body.

Be skeptical about media reports that rates of lawlessness are declining in cities.

Crime rates are falling, the mainstream press reports. Despite what it calls the “widespread national perception that law-breaking and violence are on the rise,” NBC News maintains that the opposite is true: “Americans believe crime rates are worsening, but they are mistaken.” A Washington Post column by Philip Bump echoes that assertion and opines, “This is not the narrative that has dominated on the right.” Bump adds, “Fox News coverage has consistently focused on crime in urban areas,” in part because the network’s “audience (understandably) associates cities with Democratic leadership, because cities are more heavily non-White.”

In new court filings, Metro Inc. is accusing Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company of conspiring to implicate Metro in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme.

Metro has submitted a statement of defence and crossclaim in Ontario Superior Court, responding to a class-action lawsuit that implicates it and several other grocers in the alleged conspiracy.

The grocer denies being involved in bread price-fixing, which is also the subject of a federal Competition Bureau investigation.

Prince Andrew is expected to be among dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates named in documents to be unsealed next month on the orders of a New York judge.

The documents were filed as part of a lawsuit against the disgraced financier’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Judge Loretta Preska has given those whose names will be released 14 days to appeal her decision before the documents are made public.

Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s high profile associates are in for a New Year’s surprise as they will be named in court documents set to be released in the first days of 2024.

The pedophile’s powerful friends are set to be exposed as part of a vast unsealing that a judge ordered on Monday will take place in 14 days.

That will take the release day to January 1 – but as that is a holiday it is likely the files will be made public the following day.

h/t Mauser

VANCOUVER – The voice mail threatens to knock lawyer Kevin McCullough’s teeth out, and as for his client, Ibrahim Ali, the anonymous caller says: “I’m gonna cut him.”

The Dec 1. recording was provided to The Canadian Press by Ali’s lawyers, who say it is among a litany of threats they have received for their handling of the high-profile murder case.

Ali was convicted on Dec. 8 of first-degree murder for the killing of a 13-year-old girl in a B.C. park, and while the trial may be over, the fallout for McCullough and co-counsel Ben Lynskey continues.

The family and friends of Barry and Honey Sherman pointed fingers at two people in the early days of the investigation: Kerry Winter and Frank D’Angelo. They did so even while police were still pursuing a murder-suicide theory.

“That’s what a lot of people were saying,” said a Sherman insider. “It was either Kerry or Frank who were somehow involved.”

41 BLACK-ON-WHITE HOMICIDES, INCLUDING ANOTHER SJW, THE USUAL TOLL OF WHITE FEMALE SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, AND JUST RANDOM STUFF

h/t Kiki9

On an overcast day last December, Toronto homicide Det.-Const. Dennis Yim made a rare trip out of the office where he has worked on the Barry and Honey Sherman murder case, day in and day out, since 2017.

Yim, with close-cropped hair and a slender, athletic build, drove to an office somewhere in Toronto, in search of information related to some of Barry Sherman’s many business deals.

The lone full-time detective on the case, Yim recently remarked that his job is never-ending.