The Toronto Police division whose officers’ alleged misuse of law-enforcement databases gave rise to a high-profile corruption probe has a documented history of data breaches.
In the eight years before the recent Project South takedown led to the arrests of several officers from 12 Division, unlawful database breaches prompted sanctions against four other constables from that division, according to a review of disciplinary records by The Globe and Mail.
A 28-year-old Toronto man accused of making 3D printed handguns is facing a number of charges in connection with a firearm manufacturing and trafficking probe, police say.
Toronto police said multiple 3D printed guns and components were seized following the suspect’s arrest in December 2025.
“These are fully functioning firearms that were not purchased through regulated channels and in many cases, are not traceable in the same way as traditional firearms,” Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday morning.
On December 9, 2025, Brian Narciso, 28, was arrested and charged with multiple offences related to firearm manufacturing, trafficking, and unauthorized firearm possession. The charges include a new offence under Canadian law: possession of computer data for the purpose of manufacturing or trafficking firearms, contrary to section 102.1 of the Criminal Code.
Riley Mulvihill woke up to a smashing sound in the middle of the night. Masked men were trying to break through the glass window beside the front door of her Toronto home.
“Keys! Keys! I’ll kill you,” said one of them on security video.
The number of home invasion victims in Toronto hit a 10-year high in 2024, with 231 victims across 149 incidents, according to Toronto police data. In 2025, the total dropped to 183 victims across 93 incidents, but the numbers are up again so far this year compared with the same point last year.
I smell diversity.
BANGKOK/TORONTO — When Thai police pulled over a white Suzuki moving through Bangkok’s busiest shopping districts last August, the officers trailing it were already receiving the proof on their own phones — fake banking alerts, broadcast live by the hardware in the trunk of the car ahead of them.
The withdrawal of an appeal for a new trial from the convicted crypto-mogul Sam Bankman-Fried signals that his quest to exonerate himself from behind bars is a daunting one — even as he maintains his innocence and presses his appeal along other channels.The retrial request, formally known as a Rule 33 motion, was filed in February. Rule 33 motions allow for defendants to request a new trial based on newly discovered evidence or fundamental unfairness.
The Toronto Police Service has made arrests in a first-of-its-kind investigation, dubbed Project Lighthouse, into the use of a mobile “SMS blaster” — a sophisticated cybercrime tool not previously detected in Canada.
This investigation marks the first known instance of this technology being deployed in Canada and highlights an emerging threat to both public safety and financial security.
“This is a new and emerging threat in Canada — one that uses advanced technology to reach thousands of people at once and exploit their trust,” said Deputy Chief Robert Johnson. “As the first investigation of its kind in this country, it reflects how the Toronto Police Service is adapting quickly to detect and disrupt complex cyber-enabled crime. I’m proud of the work done by our Coordinated Cyber Centre and grateful to our policing and industry partners who helped bring this investigation forward.”
OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency will report Thursday that extortion is soaring, with a growing number of those crimes committed against Canadians of Indian or south Asian descent by criminal organizations with direct ties to that region.
In a new report obtained by National Post, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) said extortion cases have increased more than sixfold over the first four months of 2026. The agency’s report said it has already logged more extortion cases so far this year than the previous two years combined, part of a dramatic increase in financial crimes in Canada over the last few years.
When Cameron moved his family to a suburb north of Toronto last year, neighbours told him it one of the safest streets in the area. The roads were lined with cream-brick houses and manicured lawns. In summer, kids played between driveways; in winter, they dug tunnels through snowbanks.
But any hope of a peaceful life on Allison Ann Way was shattered when a house across the street was shot at four times in five months. The most recent attack came in early February, as Cameron was leaving for work. Moments after his children had headed out for school, gunfire tore into the neighbour’s garage and a dark SUV sped off.
“Whoever was doing this was trying to send us a message, and they did,” Cameron said, peering out from his garage. “This street is now empty, like a ghost town.”
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Today I deliver a keynote speech at the annual training of the Washington State Narcotics Investigators Association. The talk is densely packed with cases and analysis — Vancouver casino ledgers, United Front banking cells, the Six Nations–Sinaloa grow-op corridor, the Canadian encryption shops that have become the nerve endings of a hemispheric cartel network. The presentation is complicated.
In a nutshell: hostile regimes in China and Iran are attacking North America in partnership with Latin American cartels that operate with state-like capacities in technology and intelligence, and they are using Canadian cities as a “center of gravity” for transnational operations.
A man who said voices told him to randomly shoot two men on the streets of downtown Toronto in 2022 acted in a “rational, methodical and organized” manner, a judge concluded Monday, convicting Richard Edwin of two counts of first-degree murder.
“These acts appear to have been thought out and planned over time,” Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly said in front of the families of victims Kartik Vasudev and Elijah Mahepath.
In contemporary criminal-justice debates, the term “second chances” seems to have lost much of its meaning. The U.S. dedicates the month of April to the idea that we systematically deny second chances to people who come into contact with the criminal-justice system. This is a strange claim, given that the typical state prisoner in America has approximately ten prior arrests and five prior convictions—meaning that he probably received far more than just a “second” chance.
More than 150 inmates have been improperly released from Ontario’s jails over several years, a problem that Premier Doug Ford called “unacceptable” on Wednesday.
Global News unearthed government documents through freedom-of-information laws that show the province mistakenly released 157 inmates between 2021 and 2025.
Those documents say the majority of errors were made at the jails and in court, some were administrative while others were human error.
The same civilization that produced the scientific method, actuarial science, and data-driven medicine now treats the act of noticing statistical trends as a moral failing — provided those trends involve race. Welcome to the cognitive dissonance Olympics, where your lying eyes are always the problem, and the scoreboard is considered hate speech.
Canadian laws didn’t apply to Gilbert Nuamah.
That’s what the convicted sex offender facing deportation allegedly told cops who had just arrested him for sexually assaulting an Indigenous woman.
At 1 a.m. on March 25, a gunman approached the gate surrounding the Woodbridge, Ont., mansion of Paul Borrelli – an executive at Green Infrastructure Partners Inc. (GIP), the sister construction company to Canadian waste giant GFL Environmental Inc. – and sprayed the front of the property with bullets.
A few days earlier, a similar scene played out in midtown Toronto, when around 2 a.m. a gunman opened fire on the home of Mr. Borrelli’s GIP colleague Sean Goldberg, the son of investment banker Barry Goldberg, who helped finance GFL in its early days.
