An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.
Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.
Mezhgan Aini had a husband and three children she cared about, family in Afghanistan who she talked to regularly, and a thriving seamstress business in Mississauga.
Then she was gone.
Mezhgan, 38, was reported missing by her sister in August 2025. Seven months later, Peel police issued a news release: The probe into her disappearance was now a homicide investigation.
Maybe the same reluctance that lead to the torture and death of a child was at work on this case?
The unsolved murder of an employee of a giant spiritual health organization — which a Mountie ranked as one of the most “strange” cases he’s ever seen — is back in the spotlight after a B.C. judge ruled the matter of significant public interest.
The killing of Bo Fan, an employee of Create Abundance, has drawn international media attention over the past six years, including from Canadian news outlets, Le Monde in France, the South China Morning Post in East Asia, Newsweek in the U.S., and The Sunday Guardian in India.
Very weird.
In February last year, Antoine Kassis checked into the Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club, a Victorian-style resort an hour north of Nairobi. Wearing an ill-fitting hooded sweatshirt, with gray stubbles and baggy eyes, he didn’t look like a typical upscale tourist.
The disheveled 58-year-old, who went by Tony, was a cousin of the recently deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He had traveled to Kenya planning to meet a supposed arms inspector from a Colombian rebel group and complete a $14 million deal to import 500 kilos of cocaine to Syria in return for military-grade weapons supplied by Iran and Russia.
Kassis didn’t know the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency had been watching him for two years. As he waited in a cafe, U.S. agents accompanied by Kenyan police approached him. Two months later he was extradited to the U.S., ending a lengthy sting operation.
A Toronto judge has kept sealed portions of thousands of pages of Barry and Honey Sherman murder case documents that reveal the identities of “many” individuals police speculate were involved in the killings, including information Barry provided to his own doctor before he died.
“I am satisfied that the ends of justice would be subverted by the disclosure of the redacted materials at this time,” Justice David Porter said in his recent ruling on the Star’s now eight-year-old request for access to the police files.
I wonder if the person of interest is the son? Two sisters have suggested he may be responsible.
DAYTON – A federal grand jury in Ohio has returned a precedent-setting indictment charging two Chinese chemical companies and six Chinese nationals with conspiring to supply fentanyl precursors and special cutting agents to increase demand for fentanyl distributed across North America — and, for the first time in any prosecution of Chinese chemical suppliers, an allegation of attempted material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
RCMP officers executed search warrants at the homes of former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek and current city councillor Andre Chabot, Global News has learned.
According to Gondek, who served as Calgary’s mayor for a single term between 2021 and 2025, officers executed a search warrant at her home and seized a cellphone.
h/t Mauser
A Burlington couple did not intend to kill the severely malnourished 12‑year‑old boy they were trying to adopt; instead, he likely died from “refeeding syndrome” as they tried to nurse him back to health, defence lawyers argued Monday on the first day of closing arguments at a disturbing Ontario murder trial.
That defense deserves a slap in the face.
A year before he agreed to help the FBI take down alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding, Jonathan Acebedo Garcia appeared in a music video.
A smiling Acebedo Garcia is seen only briefly in the outro, as the bouncing reggaeton beat winds down. Dressed in a branded cap and hoodie, the Montrealer poses with the artist and two others in front of a blue convertible at an auto body shop in Laval, Que. He removes his hands from his pockets to flash the peace sign, and the music fades.
OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — Before the United States government seized four websites operated by Iran’s intelligence ministry and dismantled a network that had directed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to behead a former Ontario politician at her Ottawa home, two of those sites were registered through a Toronto company that enables website owners to cloak their identities.
In the dribbling and desultory release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails over the past few months, one question has risen above the filthy froth: why did brilliant economists, doctors, and chieftains of industry seek Epstein’s counsel and kowtow to him? Shouldn’t they have known better?
Part of the answer is simple: his infamous black book of contacts. Among a certain set—particularly the one I grew up around in Manhattan—we salivated over whose name might be tarnished next. But as it played out, the little book served as a road map of who mattered.
Julia Nuttall will never forget the terror and helplessness of huddling in a closet with her three children in their Lawrence Park home in early December.
It was 6:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, when the family heard banging. Downstairs, intruders had smashed the glass of her front door. She gathered her children and called 911 as her husband went to confront the burglars, screaming at them down the stairs.
VANCOUVER — A Canadian court ruling ends in an anti-SLAPP win for a journalist who reported on a China-connected wealth and spiritual group that first raised alarms with videos of military-style training on Vancouver Island, and has since drawn headlines from India to France, where Le Monde also reported on the murder of one of the group’s employees in Vancouver and its efforts to embed itself in French society.
When his trial began in February, Frank Stronach faced 12 counts related to seven female complainants whose allegations included sexual assault and the historical charges of rape and attempted rape.
Now, with all the evidence heard and closing submissions set for the end of the month, those charges have been whittled down to seven — related to four of the initial seven complainants.
That the Crown has decided to drop five charges, and discard the testimony of three complainants, has raised some questions about the initial strength of some of their cases and whether enough was done beforehand to anticipate potential problems.
A staff sergeant at a Toronto super jail has been criminally charged in the wake of the massive police corruption probe, Project South.
Muhamer Oruglica is accused of directing another staff member at the Toronto South Detention Centre to unlawfully search an inmate on the jail’s database last September.
York police arrested the 35-year old in late February, just weeks after announcing the results of a months-long investigation that uncovered Toronto cops had allegedly leaked confidential information used to facilitate shootings, extortion and other crimes — including a plot to murder a manager known for his strict enforcement inside the Toronto jail.
