The disparity in police-reported violent crime between Canada and the United States has decreased in recent years, largely due to an uptick in major assaults recorded north of the border.
A Statistics Canada study examining crime trends from 1998 to 2023 found that the incidence of police-reported violent crimes for every 100,000 residents remains higher in the United States than in Canada. However, the violent crime rate is rising at a much quicker pace in Canada.
A 29-year-old Uber driver has been arrested in connection to the Palisades Fires that decimated Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of homes in January.
Jonathan Rinderknecht was charged with ‘maliciously’ starting the catastrophic fire, according to Acting US Attorney Bill Essayli.
‘The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht’s started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day – a blaze that eventually turned into one of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, causing death and widespread destruction,’ Essayli said.
An ex-construction CEO and a former hospital executive have been found guilty of fraud over the competition to win a $300-million renovation contract at Toronto’s downtown St. Michael’s Hospital.
Evidence that Vas Georgiou and John Aquino “acted dishonestly over the procurement process is overwhelming,” Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden said, reading an overview of his 135-page judgment on Tuesday morning.
This is Canada where white collar crime is a past time so these guys will serve 6 mos. tops or as is more likely they’ll never spend a night in jail.
DeAndre Anderson was a ticking time bomb.
He called them “toilets” and the Burlington loner’s long-planned attacks on women were not simply twisted musings on an incel website.
Why no pic? I can’t find one anywhere.
OTTAWA — Bill C-2, Ottawa’s so-called “Strong Borders Act,” promises to secure Canada’s frontiers with new surveillance powers, sweeping ministerial discretion, and higher penalties. But as veteran Canadian investigators know, the bill misses the point. It is an omnibus solution that expands the state’s reach online, while leaving untouched the very legal choke points that have made Canada a permissive financial platform and fentanyl laboratory for cartels, Triads, and state-linked terror networks.
The brazen daylight killing of a prominent Quebec gang leader inside a suburban Starbucks in the outskirts of Montreal this week could signal a new, more chaotic and brash environment when it comes to organised crime, observers say.
The arrests of alleged senior, older members of Montreal’s mafia in June has potentially left a chasm – meaning newer, younger gangs are attempting to gain a foothold.
Police said at a news conference that they were called to a Starbucks in Laval, Quebec, which is a suburb of Montreal, at about 10.30am on Wednesday because of reports of a shooting inside the coffee shop. One man was killed and two others were injured.
Hip-hop icon Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday — a paltry term compared to the 11 years sought by prosecutors after a blockbuster, stomach-churning sex crimes trial exposed the mogul’s depraved secrets.
The emotional, nearly six-hour sentencing hearing on prostitution charges in Manhattan federal court closed with Judge Arun Subramanian condemning Combs’ horrific abuse of victims Cassie Ventura and an influencer known as “Jane.”
BREAKING: Sean “Diddy” Combs sentenced to four years and two months in prison for pr*stitution offenses
Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Diddy to 50 months in prison and a $500,000 fine on Friday in Manhattan
After prison, he will serve an additional five years of supervised… pic.twitter.com/YXsrURFWHt
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) October 3, 2025
h/t Hermes
AUCKLAND — Three men were sentenced in Auckland’s High Court this week for their role in receiving the largest methamphetamine seizure ever recorded at New Zealand’s border, which arrived from Vancouver’s port concealed in maple syrup bottles. Customs officers intercepted 713.8 kilograms of the drug in January 2023, enough for roughly 35 million doses and calculated to equate to NZ$800 million in drug harms. The shipment, stacked on 18 pallets and disguised as four-litre syrup jugs, was routed through a global node for Chinese chemical precursor trafficking and synthetic drug production.
h/t XC and Patti Jo
An international student from India has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty in Saskatoon provincial court to charges of drug trafficking and possessing the proceeds of crime.
Jatinderpal Singh, who came to Canada to study at a university in Ontario, said he turned to selling drugs in Saskatchewan in order to pay off his debts, according to the written decision by Saskatoon provincial court Judge Lisa Watson, who presided over Singh’s sentencing.
Singh, 27, passed his first year of studies but couldn’t complete his second year because he couldn’t afford the school fees, according to information that was presented in court. His student visa then expired.
A Windsor, Ont., man is facing multiple firearms charges after police found 48 weapons and roughly 17,000 rounds of ammunition during a raid earlier this year.
The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) said Monday that in May and June, its agents in Windsor, Toronto and Montreal intercepted four parcels containing firearms parts and tools for manufacturing firearms.
… A 30-year-old Windsor man was arrested and charged with multiple offences, including one count of attempting to manufacture a firearm, two counts of possessing a prohibited device without a licence and three counts of possession of a firearm at a place other than indicated on a licence.
No perp description.
After more than three decades, police have identified a dead suspect in an infamous 1991 murder case in which four girls were slain at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.
Austin police revealed Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been identified as a suspect in the murders through “a wide range of DNA testing”. Brashers, who had a lengthy criminal history, died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with police in Missouri.
A school teacher testifying in court Wednesday described the harrowing scene when one of her Grade 2 students began to strangle himself with a piece of carpet — to the point that his face turned purple.
“I was terrified for him. I actually thought he wanted to kill himself,” Sara Biasetti told the ongoing trial of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney, the prospective parents of the boy and the older brother they’re accused of murdering.
New permits for foreign students plunge 97 per cent as Conestoga College braces for impact
Conestoga’s pipeline of fee-paying foreign students has collapsed with a 97 per cent reduction in students from abroad receiving new approvals to attend.
The federal government approved just 540 new international study permits for the Kitchener-based community college between January and June, according to new data released to The Record.
That’s down from 17,600 new study permits approved in the same months in 2023.
The Ontario government has outlined a series of measures it wants to see from the federal government’s upcoming legislation meant to tighten bail reform and sentencing rules.
A joint letter sent Monday by the province’s solicitor general and attorney general is recommending a list of proposals for the federal government to increase public safety.
The list includes restoring mandatory minimum sentencing for serious crimes and removing bail availability for offenders charged with murder, terrorism, human trafficking, intimate partner violence, drug trafficking, criminal possession or use of restricted or prohibited firearms and violent carjackings and home invasions.
During a news conference announcing the arrest of a teen in the “senseless” fatal shooting of eight-year-old JahVai Roy last month, Toronto’s police chief addressed a concerning trend that is impacting communities across the city.
“We’ve been raising the alarm for the last couple of years around the rise of violence amongst young people,” Chief Myron Demkiw told reporters last week.
He pointed to a “dramatic rise” in the number of young people being arrested with illegal firearms and noted that more than a dozen young people had been charged in murder investigations in Toronto in 2025 alone.
