MONTREAL – Interpol says more than 200 stolen Canadian vehicles have been found each week across the globe since February.
The international law enforcement agency says a total of more than 1,500 vehicles have been identified thanks to the RCMP’s decision earlier this year to integrate Canada’s database for stolen vehicles with Interpol’s.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to be transferred from a New York lock-up to one in California, against his wishes, according to a report.
The convicted crypto-cook – who is appealing his 25-year prison sentence – is in the process of leaving Brooklyn Federal Metropolitan Detention Center for a prison in Mendota, California, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
Two young men and a 15-year-old boy were killed during a brawl that erupted in a Plateau-Mont-Royal alley Tuesday evening, the latest in a string of homicides in Montreal in the past 10 days.
According to Montreal police, a 911 call reported a fight between several people around 7 p.m. in an alley between St-André and Mentana Sts.
Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.
On July 13, 2020, gunfire broke out between two cars in the Bay Area town of Antioch, California. One of the cars’ occupants, Daunzhay Young, was hit during the fusillade and was rushed to the hospital. Young survived—this time.
Oakland’s gang wars were radiating outward, including to this once-bucolic city northeast of Oakland. Young was a member of Oakland’s Case gang. A month later, another Case gangbanger was shot while sitting in a car in Oakland. He died the next day. On August 27, 2020, a third Case member was shot in Oakland; three guns were collected at the scene. Case’s archenemy, the ENT gang—named for three dead homies—was on a roll.
The federal government is launching what it calls its “national action plan” to combat auto thefts, which will include stronger penalties for thieves, and increased information sharing between police agencies, government officials and border enforcement.
Several cabinet members announced the plan during a Monday morning news conference in Brampton, Ont.
The announcement comes on the heels of the national auto theft summit held in February in Ottawa. According to 2022 industry estimates released at the time, rates of auto theft had spiked in several provinces compared to the year before. In Quebec, thefts rose by 50 per cent. In Ontario, they were up 34.5 per cent.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has broken his silence after shocking video of him beating up his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura surfaced this week.
The 54-year-old rapper took to Instagram on Sunday morning to apologize, saying: ‘I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses.’
Looking into the camera, Diddy said: ‘So difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, sometimes you got to do that. I was f***ed up.
A Chicago mom who called 911 during a terrifying break-in was left on her own for hours — with dispatchers telling her to call her local representative to demand more police funding.
Michelle called the emergency hotline six times after coming face-to-face with two masked bandits, only for the strained supervisor to tell her the city’s severe budget cuts had left them with a bare-bones staff.
“A gentleman got on and said sorry to say we have no units to send you … then there was an awkward pause,” Michelle told NBC Chicago Wednesday, declining to share her name or face while her would-be robbers are still on the loose.
Three teenage girls are expected to plead guilty in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee near Union Station in December 2022, court heard Friday.
The girls, aged 13, 13, and 14, appeared in provincial court in Toronto.
Three other girls, aged 15, 16, and 16, are expected to plead not guilty, court heard.
Eight teenage girls were initially charged with second-degree murder in connection with Lee’s death. They range in age from 13 to 16 years old.
The recently released 2016 video footage showing Sean “Diddy” Combs brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura has provoked shock and outrage — from Combs’ fellow celebrities as well as the general public and even some politicians.
“Monster,” model Emily Ratajkowsk responded on Friday.
“The picture is getting a lot more clear for you all I can imagine,” wrote singer Aubrey O’Day, who once collaborated with Combs.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Sean "Diddy" Combs violently grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation in a hotel in California.#Diddy #CassieVentura pic.twitter.com/hJFClKqkXS
— BM Media (@ByteMagnet) May 17, 2024
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Footage of Sean Diddy Combs saying that electing Trump would cause a race war has resurfaced online. Puffy also official endorsed Joe Biden during this interview with Charlemagne.
I’m starting to notice something about the people that tell us not to vote for… pic.twitter.com/x3DH4Gpfyw
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 30, 2024
The message pads appear a little faded, but the handwriting on the spiral-bound notebooks is clear enough.
Staff at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Florida’s Palm Beach used the pads to jot down the names of the people who had called the financier, and between 2004 and 2005, one well-known person appeared to be calling persistently.
Not Prince Andrew or Bill Gates, or even Bill Clinton, the former US president, though all of them have come under a spotlight over their relationships with the disgraced billionaire.
The name on the pads is one that – until recently – has had far less scrutiny: David Copperfield.
Harold the Mortgage Closer accused of charging ‘vulnerable’ people interest rates up to 76 per cent
Ontario is moving — again — to shut down Harold the Mortgage Closer, alleging he has for years carried out a scheme that charged “vulnerable” people up to 76 per cent interest on mortgages.
Enforcement action by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario comes on the heels of a Toronto Star investigation into a mortgage deal that Harold Gerstel and his companies had with the late Judy Allen, a senior who eventually lost her North York bungalow to Gerstel.
The regulator says it has now looked more deeply into Gerstel’s activities and found five other cases. Among them, situations in which, the regulator alleges, Gerstel’s effective interest rate was as high as 76 per cent. Canada’s Criminal Code has set 60 per cent as the highest legal interest rate allowed.
60% interest wasn’t enuff???
Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local grocery store, a Loblaw-owned Fortinos in Burlington, Ont.
Just as she was leaving, the wheels on her shopping cart locked up — making it immobile.
She said a store employee rushed over and demanded to see her receipt.
I find self-checkout to be the worst “advance” in retail. Costco bill check is a minor annoyance. But I do recommend you check grocery bills for billing errors, I have caught several including one from Costco in just the past 6 months. Not huge mistakes maybe 30 bucks in total. My local Farmboy is not to be trusted, and I wonder if it’s as I suspect their “Foreign Student” hiring practices. A constant turnover in staff can’t help.
The old Latin invocation to not speak ill of the dead is one of the oldest and most famous aphorisms in Western culture. But in London, in 2024, it has become increasingly acceptable among certain circles to mockingly dismiss and ignore the dead. Spiralling violent crime has become an unlikely source of amusement for not only London’s newly re-elected mayor, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, but also for many of his elite endorsers.
Canada’s westernmost province has says it will stop people who committed serious crimes from changing their names, following revelations that a child-killer tried to keep his new identity secret.
British Columbia’s health minister said on Monday his government would introduce legislation to amend the province’s name act.
“Allowing these individuals to hide their identity through a name change is extremely troubling to victims and their families and can result in safety concerns for members of the public,” said Adrian Dix. The new prohibition would apply to adults, as well as offenders under 18 but who are convicted and sentenced as adults.
Four people killed, including a baby and his grandparents. A horrific head-on collision on Canada’s busiest highway that could have been even more deadly, according to eyewitnesses. All caused by a driver fleeing police after allegedly holding up a liquor store.
The driver, international student Gagandeep Singh of Milton, Ont., was out on bail for multiple charges of theft and robbery. According to police, he was also under investigation for carjacking and subject to a driving ban. The case sparked outrage not just because it took the lives of three innocent people, but because it feels like this was a tragedy waiting to happen.
