Calls grow for Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw to resign amid arrest of cops in corruption probe

Public calls for Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw’s resignation are growing following news that seven current officers were among more than two dozen people charged in an internal corruption probe.

During a news conference Thursday at York Regional Police headquarters in Aurora, it was revealed that the officers, a retired cop, and 19 additional suspects were all taken into custody following a months-long investigation into organized crime.

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High-risk sex offender released following guilty plea in court

A public warning has been issued after a man deemed a high-risk offender was released from custody.

Medhani Yohans has been behind bars since his arrest last July.

The 35-year-old has long history of violence, including at least two sexual assaults on strangers.

Update: High-risk offender rearrested 2 hours after being released from custody

h/t Patti Jo

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Man who sexually abused kids blocked from becoming Ontario lawyer. Court of Appeal rejects ‘good character’ decision

Ontario’s top court has blocked a man who sexually abused children from being called to the bar, granting a victory to Ontario’s legal regulator after years of unsuccessfully trying to deny the man a licence.

A 2023 decision by the independent Law Society Tribunal finding that the man was of good character to be licensed was “unreasonable,” the Court of Appeal ruled Monday. The man is identified only as AA due to a publication ban.


Why was this under consideration to begin with?

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Jamie Sarkonak: This child-rapist, murderer always belonged in a men’s prison

In 2005, at the age of 17, Michael Williams participated in the torturous murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. He lured the girl from West Edmonton Mall to a golf course with four of his friends. A member of the group hit Courtepatte in the head with a wrench, knocking her to the ground; Williams and one of his companions then raped her as the others held her down. After further torture (including numerous cuts to the face), Williams and co. bludgeoned her in the head with a hammer until she died.

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HUNTER: Will activist judges destroy RCMP’s new public sex offender registry?

Convicted sex offender Michael L’Enfant offered his teen target a cute addendum to his twisted missives.

It was a SHHHH emoji, meaning, let’s keep this quiet. Our little secret. That emoji is a perfect stand-in for a justice system that cares not a whit for victims of sexual assault, be they young or old. The privacy rights of pedophiles and rapists trumps everything.

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This brick-throwing, feces-smearing offender has terrorized Nanaimo for years

When Ani Rathore got a call from staff at his Javawocky Coffee House saying Aiden Tye was in his establishment, he knew trouble was brewing.

“It was just like a ticking time bomb,” he said Wednesday.


Catch and release … HUNTER: Is accused sex trafficker Skye Atoa poster boy for broken bail?

h/t Mauser

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Ontario man’s murder case is tossed for delay — his second first-degree murder charge to collapse over prosecution issues

Two accused killers, one of them from Toronto, beat murder charges Friday after a judge in Ottawa found it took too long for them to go on trial. For the Ottawa defendant, it was the second time a murder case against him has collapsed over issues with the prosecution.

“It is most unfortunate that this double homicide and attempt murder case will not be tried on its merits,” Superior Court Justice Ian Carter said, reading his reasons for halting the prosecution. “The law is clear, however. The court has no choice. A stay of proceedings is the only remedy that can be granted.”

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Why victims of crime feel abandoned by Canada’s justice system

As our family waits for the upcoming trial date after almost four years since the homicide of my father, we brace for yet another notification that proceedings may once again be postponed.

This uncertainty has become a defining feature of our experience with Canada’s criminal justice system — a system that appears structured to tolerate delay, even when those delays deepen trauma for victims and their families. Each time the phone rings, we wonder whether justice will finally move forward or be pushed further out of reach.

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Ontario judge reluctantly accedes to ‘very lenient’ sentence for drug dealer who terrorized two women

A recent court decision out of Ontario reveals how judges’ hands are tied when it comes to sentencing hard-core criminals.

Justice Craig Brannagan was sentencing Justin Anderson for repeatedly flashing a handgun at a woman he forcibly confined for a week the spring of 2024 while he travelled through the province selling drugs, and for later terrorizing another woman at gunpoint he believed to be an informant. Both the Crown and defence lawyers in Anderson’s case had recommended he be sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison. The judge dubbed their position “very lenient,” but he went along with it, anyway.

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Chris Selley: Here’s why Canadian criminals seem to get off lightly. Prosecutors don’t go ‘knives out’

If Canadians have ever felt like they had a handle on who goes to jail, when and why, and for how long, it’s tough to believe they do nowadays. Or if they think they do, chances are good they’re not too happy about it. Once you notice how many news stories there are about people who have been accused or convicted of violent crimes, and then gotten out on bail or parole, and then been latterly accused or convicted of further violent offences, it is quite difficult to un-notice it.

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