“Unprecedented Crime Convergence” in Canada: 668 Organized Crime Groups Networked Into 48 Nations, Potentially “Hundreds of Billions” Laundered Each Year, Washington Institute Finds

WASHINGTON — A former senior U.S. intelligence official has concluded that an “unprecedented crime convergence” is underway across Canada, involving nearly 700 organized crime groups operating in strategic cooperation and networked into 48 countries—amid virtually no coordinated national response from Ottawa—resulting in potentially hundreds of billions of dollars laundered in the country each year.

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To fix Canada’s fertility crisis, we need a cultural shift

More and more Canadian women are stopping at one child, if they choose to have children at all

I spent roughly 25 weeks in 2022 on my bathroom floor, inspecting the grout between the tiles and waiting for whatever food I futilely put in my stomach to come back up. “Grout is such a stupid invention – impossible to clean,” I’d think, and then press my cheek against the floor, preparing to reacquaint myself with a reconfigured version of the saltine crackers and ginger ale I consumed 20 minutes earlier. “I’m never doing this again.”

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Canada trans shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar’s mom described him as sadistic — as twisted addicted to death videos revealed

A gun for a sadistic 12 year old?

Canada’s transgender school shooter was a sadistic 7-year-old, his own mother once said — and he grew more sinister in the months before the shooting as he became obsessed with twisted murder videos.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old high school dropout, carried out the second worst school shooting in Canadian history Tuesday, first slaughtering his mother and stepbrother at home and then storming into Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where he killed six people and injured 25 more before turning the gun on himself.

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Sundeep Sekhon arrested more than 1 year after fatal hit-and-run in Mississauga

Sundeep Sekhon – Killer

More than one year after a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing a street in Mississauga, police say they have arrested the alleged driver.

On Jan. 14, 2025, Peel police responded to the area of Bristol Road West and Loonlake Avenue after a pedestrian was hit by a black SUV while crossing at the crosswalk.

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Tumbler Ridge transgender shooter ‘tried to kill his family before’

The teenager who murdered his mother and step-brother in a mass shooting in a Canadian town had tried to kill his family before, a neighbour revealed.

On Tuesday, Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at his home in Tumbler Ridge and then at a local school before turning the gun on himself.

Investigators have not yet established a motive for the attack that killed eight people, one of Canada’s deadliest gun incidents. A police spokesman told The Telegraph that they “might never be able to”.


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VARNER: Canada needs to grow up as a country

Canada’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Mark Carney is being sold as pragmatic, sophisticated, and globally minded. In reality, it is incoherent, unserious, and increasingly detached from Canada’s national interest. It reflects the same Liberal instinct that defined the Trudeau government and prioritizes moral posturing over power, symbolism over strategy, and international applause over outcomes.

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HANNAFORD: Can Canada be defended at all?

Tonight we take a hard look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ambitions for Canada’s national defence. Over the past several months, the Prime Minister has spoken forcefully about living in a world of predatory great powers, about rebuilding the Canadian Armed Forces, strengthening NATO commitments, and dramatically increasing defence spending — even doubling it by 2030.

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The Northwest Passage Will Be Decided by Capability, Not Law

Recent attention has focused on Greenland as a focal point of Arctic strategy, a reminder that geography once treated as peripheral now sits squarely within the logic of continental defense. A similar shift is unfolding elsewhere in the Arctic, though with far less public notice. The Northwest Passage—the network of sea routes threading Canada’s Arctic Archipelago between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—has moved from a seasonal curiosity to a corridor of growing strategic consequence. As activity increases, questions long treated as theoretical, including the legal status of those waters, are being pushed toward practical resolution.

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Cartels Shift Border Crossings North, As U.S. Indictment Alleges Smuggling Ring Flew Mexican Migrants Into Canada, Guided Them Across Vermont

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment alleging that a Dominican national and a U.S. citizen conspired to move foreign nationals from Mexico and Central and South America into the United States by flying them into Canada, staging them through Quebec, and then guiding them on foot and by vehicle across the Vermont border — a pattern investigators say reflects Mexican cartel-linked human-smuggling networks exploiting a “north border” pathway long viewed as secondary to the U.S.–Mexico frontier.

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Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials

Leaders of a right-wing group pushing a conservative Canadian province to secede and form a new nation say they have been meeting with Trump administration officials to discuss how their radical plan can benefit the U.S.

In three separate, highly unusual meetings with officials from the State and Treasury departments, they’ve discussed the logistics of Alberta breaking off from Canada, including switching over to U.S. currency and creating a new military.

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Canadians are clamouring for a stronger military

Canada is witnessing a once-in-a-generation shift in opinion on matters of national defence. In the absence of a traditional war, a wartime mentality is emerging: Canadians have an appetite for more defence spending as they see significant global threats.

A study commissioned by the University of Calgary and completed by Nanos Research in late 2025 points to a series of historic shifts that will influence both Canada’s defence posture and strategy. U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about Canada becoming the 51st state and strained trade discussion have shaken Canadians.


I wonder if the same concern holds true in the diverse communities our pols find it necessary to pander to?

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Ontario Liberals opt to make hostile interference in leadership race less onerous for enemy states and the criminal element

Ontario Liberals opt to allow temporary residents to vote in leadership race even though federal counterpart barred them

Over the weekend, the Ontario Liberals released the long-awaited rules for the party’s leadership race such as fundraising targets and the deadline to register as a member to vote.

But unlike the federal Liberals’ leadership election, no changes were made to who could cast a ballot, meaning non-citizens and people in Canada on student or work visas are all eligible, per the party’s constitution.

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Tumbler Ridge shooting victim, 12, ‘loved being at school’ before he was ‘murdered in cold blood,’ father says

Abel

A grieving father whose son was killed in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting said his 12-year-old son loved school so much he cried when his father once suggested home schooling.

“Our son went to school this morning and it happened that someone came to school with a GUN went to my kids classroom shot some kids and my son was killed too just like that,” Abel Mwansa said in an emotional Facebook tribute to his son, Abel.

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