Police should in future always state the nationality of criminal suspects as a matter of principle, the interior minister of a German state has said.
Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, said the move would create a sense of transparency, but would also save the police time since their press offices are heavily involved in answering press enquiries over suspects’ nationalities.
“… In June, the RCMP laid charges against four men for illegal slaughter of animals. Seven halal grocery stores in Calgary were shut down. The slaughtering was done on rural properties in the counties of Mountain View, Rocky View and Wheatland.
Mounties provided a photo of discarded cow carcasses covered in snow. In Edmonton, police found live goats destined for slaughter in a rented garage.”
The volume and severity of police-reported crime rose for the third consecutive year in 2023, with increased reporting of child pornography being the largest contributor, a new Statistics Canada report says.
Canada’s Crime Severity Index (CSI) increased by 2 percent in 2023, continuing an upward trend observed since 2015. The rise of the index, which assesses both the number and relative severity of crimes, was driven primarily by a 52 percent increase in reported rates of child pornography compared to 2022, according to StatCan’s July 25 report.
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. say they have agreed to pay $500-million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding their involvement in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme.
The class-action case was brought against a group of companies that includes Loblaw and the Weston companies, Metro, Walmart Canada, Giant Tiger and Sobeys and its owner Empire Co. Ltd.
“I am satisfied that he is completely reformed,” Code wrote in his decision, which took effect on Oct. 24, 2023.
In court on Friday, Code ruefully revisited those words, finding that the 29-year-old Collins was most likely involved in a downtown Toronto armed robbery that took place just days after his sentence had started.
A joint-forces investigation has led to the largest seizure of illegal firearms in Peel Regional Police history a haul that saw 67 handguns, four assault rifles, 180 rounds of ammunition and more than $1 million in drugs taken off GTA streets.
The following are essential components of a racially fair Canada according to a pair of federally appointed brainstormers: dedicated Black courts and federal departments, racial “decarceration” targets … and, possibly, reparations for slavery.
These measures, numbering 114 in total, were recommended to the federal government by a steering group at the end of June to shape the Liberal government’s forthcoming Black Justice Strategy. It’s an initiative that will be sure to promote disorder and advance the well-being of a select few, if the guiding material is any indication.
Toronto police have arrested two men they say have been targeting Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) clients and allegedly stealing their funds.
Authorities were notified of a robbery just before 12:30 p.m. on June 28 in the Wellesley Street and Jarvis Street area.
… Two 18-year-olds, identified as Wadia Khaled of Toronto and Fadel Yazbak of Mississauga, were arrested and charged with robbery with an offensive weapon, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and disguise with intent.
They’re probably released and conducting another robbery as you read this.
Vehicle theft continues to be a significant problem in Mississauga and Brampton with over 3000 reported incidents in the last seven months, a trend that has persisted since 2023.
Peel police data indicates that from Jan. 1 to July 14, a combined 3900 vehicle thefts were reported across both cities—1948 in Mississauga and 1942 in Brampton.
A man, who walked into a North York office building and killed two people before turning the weapon on himself.
A woman, found dead outside her Sault Ste. Marie home, fatally strangled by her husband.
Youth firearm arrests in Toronto have skyrocketed by 161 per cent over the past two years, new data shows, and police say the uptick is happening as gangs increasingly look to recruit young people.
From January 1 to July 7, 2022, there were 41 youth firearm arrests, while the same period this year saw 107, according to police data updated this week.
Meanwhile, the number of adult firearm arrests in the city has risen two cent over the last two years. In 2022, from Jan. 1 to July 7, there were 410 adult firearm arrests, while the same period this year saw 418.
Nearly two weeks after the US Supreme Court tossed out a $6 billion bankruptcy settlement agreed upon by the Sackler family to address claims that the OxyContin manufacturer fueled America’s opioid crisis, the court-appointed committee of Purdue creditors on Monday asked a US bankruptcy court if they could sue individual Sackler family members. The creditors allege that the Sacklers illegally transferred billions of dollars to offshore private trusts before Purdue’s 2019 bankruptcy filing.
I do not understand how the entire Sackler family walks free.
Logan LaFarniere woke up one October morning in 2022 to an empty driveway.
His brand new Ram Rebel truck, which he’d bought a year and a half ago, was missing. His security camera captured two hooded men breaking into the pickup in the dead of night outside of his Milton, Ontario home, and driving it away with ease.
A few months later, that very same truck appeared on a website of vehicles for sale in Ghana, an ocean and some 8,500km away.
A 14-year-old boy and two young men have been charged with a carjacking and attempted carjacking involving women BMW drivers in Mississauga.
And police say the arrests were made while the trio allegedly were about to commit another crime.
Ban 14 year olds!
As many as four out of 10 Canadians say it is “important” to know if a vehicle they’re interested in purchasing is more likely to be targeted by thieves, according to a new Nanos Research survey.
Meanwhile, one-third (34 per cent) say it is not an important factor in making a vehicle purchase while nearly one in five Canadians remained neutral on the question.
