The head of Canada’s largest municipal police union is pushing the federal government for tough-on-crime measures, including stiffer sentences for young offenders, after a series of violent crimes allegedly involving youth suspects.
Toronto Police Association (TPA) president Clayton Campbell, whose union represents nearly 6,000 officers, says recent homicides illustrate the need to overhaul the legislation that governs how the criminal-justice system treats youth who commit violent crimes.
You will find convicted sex offender Randall Hopley in the dictionary somewhere between pond scum and sewage.
The pedophilic scofflaw has repeatedly breached parole, probation, bail and any other condition the justice system lays on him. And yet, the last chances keep on flowing.
“I can’t kill myself. I have too many people I want to hurt.”
This is the story of an incorrigible child who became an irredeemable adult and a designated dangerous offender.
It’s also a cautionary tale and refutation for those who believe everybody can be fixed, no matter how villainous, how recidivist and how sociopathic. If only, you know, there had been timely intervention in their formative years, proper guidance, mental health supports and a societal safety net to catch the bad seeds before they take permanent root.
The 12-year-old boy is described as a youth. But a 12-year-old is still a child.
Typically, if attending school, in Grade 7.
But this 12-year-old is charged with second-degree murder and five violent robberies. And we don’t really know how to profile them, apart from the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which deems that anyone aged 12 or older can be charged with a criminal offence.
That child is the weaponized product of the Liberal-left’s war on western civilization.
Let’s have some honesty about the true problem — not leftist boilerplate that champions murderers.
In June 2023, Syrian refugee Abdalmasih H. stormed into a playground in Annecy, in the French Alps, at 9 a.m. and began stabbing as many babies as he could in their strollers. Of the six seriously injured, four were children between 22 months and 3 years old. Images of the horror spread around the world. A Spanish journalist, host of one of the country’s most-watched morning shows, commented live on the attack: “This is causing a stir, and in a country like France, these are votes for Le Pen, for the far right. It’s tremendous.”
The stench has been wafting through the bowels of the justice system for about the past 10 years.
Those putrid smells are secrets, particularly the one where criminals trump small children. And that may be our prosecutors are as weak as lambs.
A strong majority of Canadians feel they have the right to defend their home against intruders — and more than half say they don’t always feel safe in their neighbourhoods and that the justice system is working against their interests, new polling shows.
“I don’t think that’s a healthy sentiment in Canada if over half don’t really feel the justice system is working in their interest,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president, said Tuesday about the findings of a new national Postmedia-Leger poll.
The mother of a victim of suspected serial killer Jesse Calhoun has said Portland officials ‘did us dirty’ after he was released from prison early – going on to allegedly murder four women.
Kristin Smith’s mom Melissa Smith said she believes then-Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s office owes the victims’ families an apology over its decision to free Calhoun due to his participation in a prison firefighting program.
‘I’m not going to say it’s their fault. But I am going to say I think they owe us moms an apology,’ she said on stage at CrimeCon 2025 on Sunday.
No one has lost their job over this.
Quebec has turned down funds aimed at addressing systemic racism in the courts
MONTREAL — The Quebec government has turned down federal funding aimed at combating systemic racism in the criminal justice system, saying it doesn’t agree with the program’s approach.
The federal government first offered $6.64 million in funding to provinces and territories in 2021 to improve fairness in the courts. Spread out over five years, the money was aimed at addressing the overrepresentation of Black people in the criminal justice system by promoting the use of race and cultural assessments before sentencing.
These assessments — known as Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, or IRCAs — analyze how a convicted person’s experience of systemic racism contributed to their criminal charges.
Originally meant to provide all Canadians with a simple way to protect their fundamental rights, Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals have degenerated into a dangerous farce. Based on recent evidence, their main job appears to be offering easily offended people a low-cost way to seek vengeance on anyone who has ever hurt their feelings. When they aren’t doing that, the entire human rights industry is actively undermining our most important fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and religion.
The point of reform has long passed. It’s time to shut them all down.
Canadian judges love to toss out the old “cruel and unusual” chestnut when it suits their ideological whims.
The violent illegal immigrant whose deportation is iced because it might be “cruel and unusual.”
Mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes? “Cruel and unusual.”
A judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court recently found that the Cowichan First Nation holds Aboriginal title over 800 acres of government land in Richmond, B.C. But that’s not all. Wherever Aboriginal title is found to exist, said the court, it is a “prior and senior right” to fee simple title, whether public or private. That means it trumps the property you have in your house, farm or factory.
The Brampton judge described his slaying of his ex-partner while their son slept as one of the “most gruesome and horrific” cases of second-degree murder that she’s seen in her decade on the bench.
Superior Court Justice Jennifer Woollcombe still reduced Linval Ritchie’s period of parole ineligibility by two years — from 20 to 18 years — because of the “degrading and humiliating” Charter violations he suffered when he was stripsearched, ziptied and left in his boxers for hours during an infamous inmate crackdown at Maplehurst prison in December 2023 that is now the subject of an investigation by the province’s ombudsman.
Surely, they won’t again release an accused dangerous driver now facing new charges of killing a father of three.
A bail hearing was held in Oshawa Wednesday for 18-year-old Jaiwin Kirubananthan, who was arrested Aug. 3 after a head-on collision, on Hwy. 48 in Whitchurch-Stouffville, that killed Andrew Cristillo and injured his three daughters. The OPP said the driver fled the scene but was found and arrested a short time later.
Reform might be surging in the Red Wall, but there’s at least one resident of County Durham — specifically, of HMP Frankland — who will be hoping the party doesn’t sweep to power at the next election. Apparently envisaging British justice as a reality show presented by Danny Dyer, Nigel Farage recently announced his intention to send 10,000 of our most violent criminals to draconian jails abroad. “If that means that Ian Huntley goes to El Salvador, well our attitude is, so be it,” the Reform leader declared.
