International student charged after alleged voyeurism involving cellphone at U of T residence

Toronto police say they have charged an international student after they received reports of voyeurism involving female students being filmed while they were in the shower at a University of Toronto residence.

In a news release on Saturday, police said the latest incident happened at the Wilson Hall Residence at New College on Willcocks Street near Spadina Avenue on Tuesday. Students alleged a cellphone was held over a shower curtain.

Police said while a female student was showering in an all-female washroom at the residence, she noticed a shadow over the shower curtain.

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Man who shot passenger on New York subway with own gun will not be charged

A 32-year-old man who shot a fellow passenger in the head on a New York subway train will not be charged because he was acting in self-defence, prosecutors said.

Terrified New York City commuters were left trapped in a carriage as gunfire rang out when a fight got out of control on Thursday during rush hour.

The shooting occurred around 4.45pm, when a 32-year-old man was confronted by an “aggressive” 36-year-old named by local outlets as Dajuan Robinson.

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Prosecutors Recommend 40- to 50-Year Prison Sentence for Sam Bankman-Fried

Federal prosecutors said on Friday that Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul, should receive a 40 to 50-year prison sentence for his conviction on fraud charges.

The prosecutors outlined the sentencing recommendation in a filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28, during which Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will decide his fate. He faces a maximum possible penalty of 110 years.

“Justice requires that he receive a prison sentence commensurate with the extraordinary dimensions of his crimes,” the prosecutors said in a 116-page sentencing memo to the judge.

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Man says his rights violated by B.C.’s demand he explain source of money to buy house

A B.C. man says his constitutional rights will be violated by the province’s use of a new law to demand he detail the source of $1 million to buy a house on Salt Spring Island.

Skye Lee was named by the province in the first so-called unexplained wealth order action filed in B.C. Supreme Court last year as part of a case to have the home forfeited as proceeds of crime.

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One of the Bowmanville double homicide suspects appears to be facing charges in two other GTA violent incidents

One of the three suspects brought into custody for the “targeted” double shooting in Bowmanville last year appears to have been charged in other violent incidents across jurisdictions shortly after.

Illia Ayo, 22, is facing two counts of first-degree murder charges in connection with the Feb. 4, 2023 shooting that left Rafad Alzubaidy, a 26-year-old pregnant woman, and her 28-year-old husband, Aram Kamel, dead.

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Pregnant woman, husband murdered inside Bowmanville home were targeted, police say after 3 suspects arrested

Three suspects are in custody in connection with what police say was a “targeted killing” in Bowmanville last year that left a pregnant woman and her husband dead.

During a news conference on Friday morning, police said Aram Kamel, 28, and his wife, 26-year-old Rafad Alzubaidy, were “shot multiple times at close range” at their home in Bowmanville in the early morning hours of Feb. 4, 2023.

Their bodies were discovered on the main floor of the residence more than 12 hours later after officers were called to the Crombie Road home to conduct a wellness check that afternoon, Det.-Sgt. Brad Corner told reporters during Friday’s update.

h/t Mauser

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Governor Hochul’s War on the Subway

New York’s subways aren’t safe. Three stranger-on-stranger homicides occurred during the first two months of the year, making a total of 34 killings in four years. Violent felony subway crime, overall, was 61 percent higher in January compared to January 2019, the start of New York’s last normal year. But Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest idea, deploying the National Guard on the platforms and trains, is no solution. The National Guard is a military force; it exists to respond to natural disasters and external threats, including terrorism. Subway crime and disorder are neither of these. They’re the predictable result of New York’s pullback over the past half-decade in incapacitating recidivist criminals. We don’t need to send in the troops. We just need to do what we did until 2019: keep anti-social and violent people off the subways.

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Foreign Student charged in killing of 6 people, including 4 children in Barrhaven homicides, Ottawa police say

… Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, is facing six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He cannot have contact with five people, including the surviving husband and father.

De Zoysa did not have a lawyer when he appeared in court Thursday afternoon. He was represented by duty counsel.

Police say De-Zoysa is a Sri Lankan national who is believed to be in Canada as a student.

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American man speaks out after linking brother’s death to accused sodium nitrite salesman Kenneth Law

The brother of an American man who died after consuming a product linked to accused suicide salesman Kenneth Law says he hopes more countries will follow the lead of Canadian legislators in considering stricter laws meant to protect vulnerable internet users.

“It just can’t be that easy,” Gerald Cohn, 38, told CTV News Toronto in an interview from the U.S. “All he had to do was go to one website, and it was so easy to access.”

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