Ismail Abrahimzada drove through a playground packed with children at Ajax park

Ismail Abrahimzada drove through a playground packed with children at Ajax park

A 23-year-old man from Aurora has been charged after allegedly driving through a playground and walking paths that were packed with children at a park in Ajax earlier this month.

Durham Regional Police said a call came in shortly before 6:30 p.m. on July 18 for a white Toyota sedan that was driving dangerously through Rotary Park on Lake Driveway West.

“The suspect vehicle drove through the playground, splash pad, and walking paths, which were filled with pedestrians, including young children,” police allege in a news release on Monday.

h/t Patti Jo

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The RCMP Said ‘No Appetite’ in 2019. Now Ontario Police Describe Cartel Brokers Inside Canada’s Trucking Industry — at the Center of a $139 Million Bust

The RCMP Said ‘No Appetite’ in 2019. Now Ontario Police Describe Cartel Brokers Inside Canada’s Trucking Industry — at the Center of a $139 Million Bust

TORONTO — In the first days of June, Ontario’s highest court quietly affirmed the release of Deepak Paradkar, a Toronto-area criminal lawyer accused by United States prosecutors of serving as a senior operative inside Ryan Wedding’s billion-dollar drug organization — the man who, the indictment alleges, introduced the former Canadian Olympian to the “trusted couriers” who carried cartel cocaine and methamphetamine into Canada through the arteries of the commercial trucking industry.

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The math of Canada’s immigration enforcement no longer works—and organized crime knows it

The math of Canada’s immigration enforcement no longer works—and organized crime knows it

When U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments against 37 people tied to India-based crime syndicates earlier this month, they exposed a distinctly Canadian vulnerability: nearly every accused Bishnoi gang foot soldier arrested here entered from Punjab on a study or temporary work permit—many, the indictments allege, obtained with fraudulent information. As Hub senior correspondent Graeme Gordon reported, the years-long Operation Hard Ball investigation traces how Canada’s immigration system became a recruitment pipeline for transnational organized crime—one running through what criminologist Kelly Sundberg calls “a broken, and in places effectively non-existent, security screening process.”

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HUNTER: Cross-border dope smuggling bust ignores elephant in room

HUNTER: Cross-border dope smuggling bust ignores elephant in room

No one was talking about the elephant parked in the corner of the room. If they were, it was in the most hushed of tones.

A murmur could get one cancelled, so better to keep quiet, even when cops should be taking a bow for shattering a cross-border dope smuggling ring and seizing an eye-popping $139 million in drugs.

But then, there is that elephant.

h/t Mauser

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Suspect sought after youth sexually assaulted on TTC bus: police

Suspect sought after youth sexually assaulted on TTC bus: police

Toronto police are working to identify a suspect who allegedly sexually assaulted a young person on board a TTC bus last week.

According to police, the incident happened in the area of Victoria Park and Danforth avenues at around 4 p.m. on July 16.

Police allege that a youth boarded a TTC bus at Victoria Park Subway Station and sat in the first row behind the driver.

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Two Doctors with alleged ties to MS-13 charged with human trafficking in the Greater Toronto Area: police

Two Doctors with alleged ties to MS-13 charged with human trafficking in the Greater Toronto Area: police

Two men allegedly associated with the notorious criminal organization MS-13 are facing charges after police say they trafficked and sexually exploited a victim throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

In November 2025, police launched Project Mermaid after one of the suspects—who was serving a “lengthy sentence” at a Kingston, Ont., prison at the time—used an unauthorized cellphone to communicate with the victim and his co-accused.

“Investigators allege the two men used intimidation, manipulation, and threats of violence to control the (female) victim while financially benefiting from her exploitation,” police said in a news release issued Wednesday.

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Prime suspect in brutal murder of Punjabi pop star hiding in Canada?

Prime suspect in brutal murder of Punjabi pop star hiding in Canada?

There were suspicions and problems with the Calgary contractor courting Punjabi pop star Yashinder Kaur.

For starters, the 29-year-old Indian woman discovered that her long-distance lover of five years had a wife and children in Canada. At one point, family members told CBC News there had been embryonic marriage plans between Kaur and 37-year-old Sukhwinder Singh Brar.

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Community processes shock, debates future of Salsa on St. Clair after deadly shooting

Community processes shock, debates future of Salsa on St. Clair after deadly shooting

In the minutes after gunfire broke out at a Toronto street festival last week, a young woman was seen walking unsteadily toward an ambulance, her outstretched arms held by a paramedic. Her white dress was streaked with blood.

She had been among the revellers at the Salsa on St. Clair festival, a summer weekend party that for years has featured hundreds of people dancing together in the street. In an instant, that evening was shattered by gunfire that left two men dead, the young woman and four others wounded and the city of Toronto shaken.


For those who were there it will remain a seminal shooting until the next one.

But face it reckless public shootings by the usual suspects are common as dirt in Toronto.

If you’re a smart Torontonian you have learned to avoid formerly safe public events where the mass shooting set are likely to be in attendance.

This is the real diversity.

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Rapist who beat Calgary woman into coma should spend 10 years in prison: Crown

Rapist who beat Calgary woman into coma should spend 10 years in prison: Crown

A Calgary man who beat a woman unconscious and then raped her created “a scene of stark horror” for his victim and will spend between seven and 10 years in prison.

A sentencing hearing took place Thursday for Kepra Udup Bang, who was convicted earlier this year of aggravated sexual assault on a woman in July 2019.

“Calgary Man”


And … Man arrested for multiple firearms charges after asking police for change in North York

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Somali gangs are terrorizing the Minneapolis area, sheriff says

Somali gangs are terrorizing the Minneapolis area, sheriff says

A dozen Somali gangs with hundreds of members, mainly teenagers, are wreaking havoc in Minnesota, committing public shootings and murders out in the open, according to local officials.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, whose office patrols the metropolitan region surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul, told the Washington Examiner that as many as 300 Somali youth are engaged in gang activity around the Twin Cities area.

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Halton police seize $5M in drugs, make largest meth bust in service history

Halton police seize $5M in drugs, make largest meth bust in service history

Two men from Brampton and Mississauga have been arrested in connection to the “largest methamphetamine seizure” in Halton Region history worth an estimated $5 million.

In a news release, officials say the probe, dubbed “Project Jester” began earlier this year and focused on “a network of individuals believed to be involved in the importation and distribution of illicit substances within the GTA.” It also included “criminal intelligence” from officers at the Waterloo police service.

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Pickering teen who butchered retired kindergarten teacher gets 10-year maximum youth sentence

Pickering teen who butchered retired kindergarten teacher gets 10-year maximum youth sentence

The boy who killed 83-year-old Pickering resident Eleanor Doney in her front yard as she was raking leaves has been given the maximum youth sentence for first-degree murder.

On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Lisa Wannamaker ruled that the 15-year-old — who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) — would receive some credit for the more than 13 months he spent in pre-sentence detention, ordering he spend an additional five years in a youth facility receiving intensive programming and counselling.

Following that, he will be released back into the community under supervision for another four years


As far as I’m concerned the little psycho killed himself a Christian for Allah.

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MANDEL: Teen still obsessed with killers despite apologizing for Pickering senior’s murder

The boy who savagely murdered a Pickering grandmother gardening on her front law last year still has an ongoing fascination with serial killers and has no insight into the devastation he has caused.

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