A man charged with first-degree murder in the Friday shooting of a Toronto woman was awaiting trial for an alleged intimate-partner assault against her last year.
Sharnjeet Singh, 37, of Brampton, is accused of fatally shooting Navneet Kaur, 26, in north Etobicoke on Friday.
According to court documents obtained by the Star, Singh was arrested on July 17, 2025, for allegedly assaulting and harassing Kaur by repeatedly following her from place to place.
They publish her photo but not his.
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
Official information on murders in Ireland so far this year indicates that, were it not for foreigners living in Ireland, the murder rate—at least of women—would be astronomically lower.
h/t Kiki9
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.
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.”
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.
Among the firearms seized by the Ontario Provincial Police from the organized crime group during Project Bay was a Lahti L-39 Anti-Tank rifle. https://t.co/jxgowz7941 pic.twitter.com/zFfbUncoCn
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) July 23, 2026
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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.
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.
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.
Police officers are required to write essays on how to build an “anti-racist police service” as part of their training, documents obtained by The Telegraph show.
Officers at Surrey Police have been told to write 500-word “reflections” on how they feel about the force’s stance on racism after taking part in lessons on diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI).
The lessons are part of DEI training courses, costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer money, which critics said were being led by “diversity bureaucrats”.
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.
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
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.
Two 17-year-old brothers are wanted by police on first-degree murder charges following a deadly shooting in Brampton earlier this month.
A 3rd brother named Shemp remains a person of interest
A trucker accused of smuggling $13 million in cocaine into Canada has had his charges thrown out after a Windsor judge found he’d been unlawfully strip searched by border agents in a “humiliating and degrading” manner that left him completely naked.
