The Finance Department says mortgage fraud and money laundering are getting worse in Canada as delayed new laws are set to take effect on Oct. 1, 2025 affecting realtors and title insurers, reports Blacklock’s Reporter.
“The Canadian real estate market has been identified as a sector highly vulnerable to money laundering,” the department wrote in a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement.
Ask anyone from China.
Nothing seemed strange about what happened on Aug. 6, 2022, at least not at first. Just after lunchtime, a man walked into a suburban Shoppers Drug Mart and started filling his cart with big-ticket items — teeth-whitening kits and electric toothbrushes, cleaning products, a curling iron. By the time he was done, his bill was $2,452.41.
At the self-checkout, he hit some buttons and took his receipt. As he was leaving, the security alarm went off, but he waved the receipt in the air, as though there had been some mistake, and continued out into the plaza’s parking lot in Milton, Ont., about 50 kilometres northwest of Toronto.
Gangsters are converting imitation guns used for historical re-enactments and school sports days into lethal weapons at “firearm factories” across the country.
Revolvers, British Bren machine guns and German MP 40 submachine guns are among the replica firearms being altered to fire live ammunition.
Last year the number of discharges from converted imitation, antique or blank weapons outnumbered those by real firearms for the first time (64 compared with 42).
Boards of Trade in three cities have petitioned the Senate’s Transport and Communications Committee to amend the Criminal Code to enhance the protection of the nation’s telecommunications networks from copper theft, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Copper theft is a growing problem across the country with thieves targeting critical infrastructure for short-term monetary gain,” wrote the Surrey, B.C. Board of Trade. “This crime is not only disrupting essential telecommunications services, leading to outages that affect homes and businesses, but it is also endangering public safety.”
If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller The Tipping Point, published 25 years ago. In the book’s most-discussed chapter, Gladwell sought to explain why New York City, in the 1990s, suddenly experienced the greatest drop in violent crime ever recorded. True, other cities saw crime declines in this period, but nowhere else did crime plunge so significantly and so swiftly. In just a few years, New York went from being one of the most dangerous and frightening big cities in America to one of the safest. Why?
A “significant number” of cases were closed without investigation last year, investigators say.
Financial crime investigators say they can’t keep up with the “overwhelming” amount of reports filed to Toronto police each day.
In part due to an increase in digital fraud over recent years, a growing caseload forced the Toronto police to close “a significant number” of cases last year without investigation, while others were backlogged over a lack of available detectives.
While the FBI hunts Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding, U.S. authorities are warning he remains a threat and likely still has a team of contract killers at the ready.
Wedding, who competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympic Games, is accused of running a violent, $1-billion US transnational criminal enterprise. He remains on the lam while facing murder and drug trafficking charges in California.
Between them, Wedding and his top lieutenant, fellow Canadian Andrew Clark, are accused of orchestrating at least four killings in southern Ontario, including the mistaken-identity shootings of the Sidhu family in November 2023.
Well I hope they’re sustainable hitmen!
In May, the Ford government announced auto theft had gotten so bad that it would bring in a harsh new penalty; convicted thieves would have their driver’s licence suspended for 10 years.
“Driving is a privilege, not a right. If you’re shameful enough to prey on other members of the community for your own reckless gain, you’ll lose that privilege,” Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said.
But as of Dec. 10, the Ministry of the Attorney General confirmed Bill 197, which included the licence suspension measure, “has not been proclaimed into force yet.”
The unspoken rules for public servants engaging in civic affairs according to the left is as follows: political engagement is wrong, unless that political engagement favours the left, in which case it’s right.
This December it was broken by two Ontario-based police unions that were exasperated to see more hollow assurances about tackling crime in the fall economic statement. The Liberals promised, for the Nth time, to tighten bail rules and “ensure repeat, violent offenders are held accountable.” Sure, sure.
No question about it. Americans are fed up with criminals.
Manatee County, Florida Sheriff Rick Wells on home invasion:
“I praise this husband for doing what he needed to do to protect his home and protect his family. If you’re gonna be that brazen to come into my home… you should expect that you’re gonna be shot.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 27, 2024
OXFORD, Georgia — LGBTQ activists William Dale Zulock and Zachary Jacoby Zulock were sentenced last week to 100 years in prison each, followed by life on probation, for “routinely” raping their young, adopted, special-needs sons, producing “homemade” child pornography of the abuse, and inviting nearby pedophiles in the Atlanta area to “double penetrate” their two children, ages 9 and 10 at the time of rescue.
“I tell people never say you’ve seen it all. Because in this line of work, you will yet again be reminded of the depths of depravity and men’s ability and willingness to engage in unspeakable cruelty to other humans,” said Judge Jeffrey L. Foster, who handed down their punishments at Thursday’s sentencing hearing.
Toronto has seen a stark spike in youth crime rates in 2024 — with almost every metric for serious gun violence up significantly.
From a 15-year-old who was gunned down outside a west-end plaza just shy of his first week in Grade 11, to a 14-year-old boy facing first-degree murder charges for opening fire on a community gathering at an Etobicoke school, killing two — scenes of young people being both victims and perpetrators of violent crime are playing out on city streets all too often.
In all, 13 people under 18 have been charged with homicide so far this year, up from just three in 2023, according to police. Over the same period, the number of young people charged with firearms offences has shot up more than 50 per cent.
The usual “root causes”. Not enough money, not enough jobs for yutes.
For weeks, Heather Parkes couldn’t bring herself to move the seven-foot balsam fur Christmas tree on her porch inside her home.
Usually, she says, her husband George would do it.
“He would be out there and it would have been in when we got it,” she said.
For Parkes and their six adult kids, celebrating Christmas this year has felt impossible. It’s their first year without Delroy — better known as George — Parkes after the 61-year-old was killed this summer in a mass shooting at an Etobicoke high school.
Ten people are each facing several charges after police in Peel Region located three kidnapping victims inside a Brampton home.
Peel Regional Police said on Dec. 17 officers attended an address near Kennedy Road North and Conservation Drive, between Sandalwood Parkway and Mayfield Road, in response to a kidnapping investigation.
Before the Toronto police board voted to approve a $46.2-million budget increase request for next year, a police director explained that case closure rates have dropped for most crimes since 2015.
“That’s because investigations take time and effort and resources,” Toronto police director of information management, Ian Williams told the board earlier this month.
But while police say lower closure rates are one reason why they need increased funding, experts are conflicted about whether they’re an accurate measure of police achievement — and whether the figures should be used to justify more resources.
I wonder if that’s due to the “Don’t offend the (insert criminal minority group here) school of policing we see the TPS enacting with the Muslims.
