On an afternoon in early October 2025, a van full of masked attackers pulled into the parking lot of a Calgary college and ambushed a group of young men caught napping in a white Mustang.
They pepper-sprayed one victim in the face. Police later found a baseball bat and sword at the scene.
The attackers even recorded the confrontation — sending a video to the parents of one victim, Kawanmeet Singh, to warn them about “what their son was doing and what behaviour he was engaging in.”
An Ontario career college with four campuses saw the amount of students receiving financial aid explode over a few years, including an increase of nearly 6,000 per cent at one campus, but it was not one of the schools the government cut off this spring.
The Canadian College of Business, Science and Technology, with campuses in the Greater Toronto Area, had 562 students accessing the Ontario Student Assistance Program in 2021-22, and three years later that number was 17,157, according to data obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom-of-information request.
That is an increase of nearly 3,000 per cent.
Sure Dougie ….
Ontario to cap OSAP growth at career colleges following massive increases
Career colleges in Ontario could soon be subject to limits on the growth of students funded by financial aid, following explosive increases in the sector that prompted the government to call in the police.
Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn announced that legislation will be introduced on Monday, saying the significant concerns around Ontario Student Assistance Program usage in the sector are far more widespread than first suspected and the bill is intended to increase oversight and accountability.
Ontario’s top court has drawn the line on when the immigration consequences of a sentence veer into unfit punishment in the case of a woman who struck a stranger in the head with a tossed table and two glass bottles.
It dismissed the Mississauga, Ont., woman’s claim that the judge, who sentenced her to a year in jail for the “gratuitous” attack that left her female victim with permanent and disfiguring injuries, failed to properly consider adverse immigration consequences.
A 32-year-old man is accused of following a woman and attempting to force his way into her Scarborough home earlier this week.
Toronto Police say officers began investigating the frightening case of alleged criminal harassment after the woman reported she noticed a man she did not know “following her home” in the area of Warden and Danforth Aves. on Monday.
Just a few months earlier, homeless drug addict Mohammad Shofa had caught a break.
Convicted of armed robbery, threatening a store clerk with a knife and breaching his bail, the Afghan immigrant was given a suspended two-year sentence and placed on probation on conditions he not possess any weapons and get help for his drug addiction.
He complied with neither.
A little good news.
Man Arrested in Sexual Assault Investigation, Yonge Street and Wellesley Street area
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Man Arrested in Sexual Assault Investigation, Barbara Hall Park
Sahib Brar and Waleed Ameen Adam Abdelrahman bringing the diversity.
A truck-driving couple from the Toronto area has been arrested on smuggling charges in a major alleged recent drug bust on the Blue Water Bridge.
Mohammad Arain, 58, and Aliya Arain, 47, who live in a Vaughan suburb, were arrested Oct. 11 on the Canadian side of the twin-span bridge connecting the Sarnia area with Michigan and charged with importing cocaine and possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, court records show.
Police force says Const. Tre Hamad, 31, of Ajax, sidelined without pay after being charged by Northumberland OPP
h/t Neocon
Peel police have announced that they’ve busted an alleged criminal network that used “fear and violence” to carry out auto thefts across the Greater Toronto Area.
At a news conference Monday, investigators revealed the results of Project High Guard, an eight-month probe that resulted in 10 arrests, 128 charges, and the recovery of $1.4 million worth of stolen vehicles.
More than 50 voyeurism charges laid against Guelph man
A Guelph man has been charged with more than 50 counts of voyeurism.
Guelph Police said the 24-year-old went to addresses where university students were known to live.
“Investigators believe he entered unfenced backyards, approached homes and looked through basement or ground-floor bedroom windows to observe people in private settings,” they wrote in a media release.
Toronto police have arrested Shaffat Hussain accused of sexually assaulting two students at a school last month.
Police said they initially got a call for a sex assault in the area of Danforth Avenue and Birchmount Road on Oct. 9.
Investigators then learned that a suspect entered a school on Sept. 30, identifying himself as a Grade 12 student.
As the Ford government faces increasing scrutiny over how a handful of private career colleges tapped into the OSAP system, Ontario’s provincial police say they are reviewing the allegations but have yet to decide on whether to launch a formal criminal probe.
In early October, the Ministry of Colleges and Universities sounded the alarm about six private career colleges that were engaged in “egregious use of taxpayer dollars” and accused them of criminality by taking advantage of the student assistance program.
A Toronto man is facing several charges after allegedly expositing himself to three victims.
The first incident occurred on Sept. 1 at around 3 p.m. aboard a TTC subway car that was travelling southbound at King Station. Toronto police say a man exposed himself to two victims before exiting the train after they activated the security alarm.
The Canada Border Services Agency said Thursday members of the Ontario Firearms Smuggling Enforcement Team began the probe after a parcel that arrived from the U.S. on July 23 was intercepted at the agency’s commercial operations facility in Mississauga.
According to the CBSA, border services officers examined the parcel and seized two complete firearms suppressors.
Nasser Gholami was arrested and charged with smuggling prohibited devices under the Customs Act as well as criminal offences, including importing prohibited devices while knowing they are unauthorized, possession of a prohibited device knowing he was not the holder of a licence under which he may possess it, and unsafe display of a non-restricted firearm.
Three men have been sentenced to jail terms for a commercial robbery spree in southern Manitoba launched just two weeks after they were accused of killing a 19-year-old man in Abbotsford, B.C.
Twenty-two-year-old Ravdeep Gill of Winnipeg, pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of robbery and Harmandeep Gill, 27, of Brampton, Ont. and Jaskaran Singh, 21, of Surrey, B.C., each pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery for a 10-day crime blitz that targeted gas bars in Swan Lake, Teulon and St. Laurent, and a meat shop in Winnipeg.
h/t AL
