A 14-year-old boy who stabbed an 83-year-old woman multiple times to death outside her Pickering home in May 2025 has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
The teen, whose identity is protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act, entered the plea in an Oshawa courtroom on Thursday.
Here is the Discord message he left pic.twitter.com/0s6xCtCKSS
— Curious George (@01CuriousGeorge) June 1, 2025
Six suspended Toronto police officers charged in a bombshell investigation into corruption and organized crime are no longer receiving their pay.
Toronto police media relations officer Amy Davey confirmed to CP24 on Saturday that Const. Timothy Barnhardt, Sgt. Robert Black, Const. John Madeley Jr., Sgt. Carl Grellete, Const. Saurabjit Bedi and Const. Elias Mouawad are now suspended without pay as they await their trial.
During Easter and Passover, heavily armed police officers were deployed to guard places of religious worship in Toronto. Those are not the traits of a high-trust society, and there are many more pointing to the further barbarization of our country.
Another historic church property in Miramichi was torched over the same Easter Weekend.
A North Carolina homeless man accused of murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in a brutal on-camera attack has been found ‘incapable to proceed’ to trial, his attorneys claim.
Attorneys for DeCarlos Brown Jr, 35, said in court filings Tuesday that his trial on state murder charges should be called off following an evaluation by a psychiatrist.
Under North Carolina state law, a defendant is only incapable to proceed to trial if they cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings and cannot help their own defense.
Recent months have seen a wave of extortion attempts targeting business owners in British Columbia and Ontario, with some involving arson and even shootings. As a response, police task forces and the Canada Border Services Agency have stepped up efforts to crack down on organized crime, amid concerns that many extortion incidents are going unreported. These developments come as Canada faces rising violent crime and a growing public debate about safety. They raise a pressing question: how many crimes are actually being solved?
Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
A row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country’s first “virtual gated community” to combat surging property crime.
Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-lined neighbourhood at a rate more than double the city average. Break-ins and thefts remain the third highest per capita in Toronto.
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Shaken by break-ins, an affluent Toronto neighbourhood takes action
The squad of private security cars fans out after nightfall, their little rooftop lights flashing yellow against the historic homes and manicured hedges of Rosedale. Their drivers patrol the streets slowly, stopping to inspect parked cars and following any suspicious drivers.
Other unmarked security vehicles idle nearby, their drivers wearing bulletproof vests under their shirts, ready to respond to break-ins in six minutes or less.
Inside those graceful homes, residents have prepared crude fortifications: door braces, newly installed alarms, hammer-proof glass.
h/t Patti Jo
Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly targeted by a gunman hired by Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal network — police are still trying to unlock the victim’s iPhone and identify at least one other suspect.
Investigators are also seeking to piece together how the homicide, allegedly carried out by a hitman known as Mr. Perfect, fits into a web of unsolved crimes suspected of being linked to the drug-trafficking organization allegedly led by Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada.
A dispute has broken out over who should manage $2 billion of assets left behind by murdered business tycoon Barry Sherman.
On one side is his son Jonathon and his nominee on the board of the Sherman family trust, Toronto lawyer Michael Woollcombe.
On the other is Jonathon’s sister Alexandra, along with her former husband, and a money manager Barry trusted for years to handle the fortune he built up as founder of generic drug giant Apotex.
A man in his 20s and a teenage boy were killed when gunfire erupted Friday night on the grounds of an elementary school in Brampton.
Peel Regional Police say officers responded to the deadly shooting near Rutherford Rd. and Weybridge Tr. – east of Kennedy Rd. N. – around 10:20 p.m. and located the two victims soon after.
Crime? In Brampton? I’m Shocked!
The Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are increasingly involved in the lucrative black market cigarette business. The revelation comes after two recent seizures of illegal cigarettes and nicotine vapes in Southwestern Ontario.
Police identified 173 organized crime groups – including the mafia, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and their support clubs – involved in black market tobacco, said Rick Barnum, chief executive of the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco.
Boy am I SHOCKED!
A lawyer for a small-time Toronto criminal facing extradition to the U.S. for allegedly murdering an enemy of Ryan Wedding’s cocaine empire is asking the Attorney General of Canada to disclose key evidence behind what he says is an entirely made-in-Canada investigation.
The defence request on Thursday casts a spotlight on a question that’s been at the forefront of other Ontario court proceedings in the sprawling FBI-led case: Why would someone like Malik Cunningham be extradited to the U.S. over an alleged offence against a Canadian victim that happened on Canadian soil — and was investigated by Canadian authorities?
No need to go Elbows Up over a criminal is there?
OTTAWA – More than 55,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses since national surveillance began in 2016. More than 7,000 died in 2022 alone. British Columbia has been in a declared public health emergency since 2016. The fentanyl death epidemic — driven by an alliance between Chinese Communist Party-connected chemical producers and Triads, Mexican cartels, and Snow Cartel proxies like the Wolfpack Alliance and Ryan Wedding — exploded from the epicenter of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2012. Fourteen years on, the toll continues to mount. South of the border, in the world’s largest consumer drug market, nearly 1.3 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999 — mostly fed by cartel trafficking and drug lab networks operating in Mexico, but increasingly in recent years by production networks rooted in Canada.
Federal prosecutors are set argue Wednesday why bail should be revoked for a Toronto-area lawyer accused of abusing his professional status and network to help alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding run a billion-dollar trafficking empire.
The Attorney General of Canada, representing U.S. prosecutors, contends that a Superior Court of Justice made several “serious reviewable errors of law” and “materially misapprehended” evidence in granting Deepak Paradkar bail last December, according to a notice of application.
h/t MW
This was a dog day afternoon in Oshawa for five alleged jewel thieves who ended up wearing the collar and being put on a leash!
Let’s just say, this Durham Region cop helped take a bite out of crime on Sunday — and collar some suspected thieves too.
Four Oshawa Centre jewelry store robbery suspects in custody. https://t.co/4I5KLLgCuu pic.twitter.com/eUtGIzAEjM
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) March 30, 2026
Two lesbian foster moms tortured a 12-year-old boy by forcing him to wear a soaking wetsuit as they mocked him in gut-wrenching messages before he was tragically found dead, prosecutors claim.
The disturbing claims about the death of the Canadian child, identified only as LL, have come to light during the murder trial of Becky Hamber, 44, and 46-year-old Brandy Cooney.
LL, who died on December 21, 2022, was found soaking wet, unresponsive, and emaciated in the basement of the couple’s Toronto-area home before being pronounced dead at the hospital, the court was told.
