OTTAWA — Criminal charges involving Indian study permit holders in Canada increased by 8,800% between 2016 and 2024, according to a classified Canada Border Services Agency intelligence report, as scrutiny grows over how organized crime groups have exploited the country’s international student program.
Well, that didn’t take very long.
Within hours of high-risk offender Medhani Yohans being sprung from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, he was back behind bars.
h/t Patti Jo
A 15-year-old boy is now wanted for the murders of two teenagers killed in a shootout last week in Stoney Creek – possibly while they were retaliating to a bear spray incident from hours earlier.
An Indian man who came to Canada on a student visa has been sentenced to prison in the U.S. for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme targeting seniors, American officials say.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said in a press release Wednesday that a federal judge sentenced 22-year-old Roshan Shah to 48 months in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering.
A Toronto man investigated for potential involvement in a murder plot targeting a senior jail officer — and facing extradition to the U.S. on drug conspiracy charges linked to alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding — has far-reaching criminal ties and is believed to have killed people, according to the RCMP.
Newly unsealed court documents provide fresh insight into the purported underworld connections of Gurpreet Singh, an accused cocaine smuggler whose name also appears in files stemming from a high-profile Toronto police corruption probe.
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
h/t Mauser
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”.
