With car theft accelerating in Canada, the federal government and law enforcement officials say more needs to be done to restrict the different technologies being used by criminals to steal vehicles.
The country’s auto theft problem was front and centre in the capital, Ottawa, Thursday with cabinet ministers meeting law enforcement agencies, border officials and other industry stakeholders at a national summit to combat increasing vehicle thefts.
Baltimore’s disgraced former District Attorney Marilyn Mosby gave wracked sobs as she was convicted of mortgage fraud, meaning she now faces decades in prison.
Mosby, a Democrat, was on Tuesday convicted of using a bogus COVID hardship claim to tap into her retirement funds to buy one of two Florida vacation homes. she owns.
The former top prosecutor, who served two terms as Baltimore’s state attorney, was found guilty on Tuesday on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on financial documents regarding a luxury condo she purchased in Long Boat Key located on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Cabinet ministers maintain that Canadians can expect to see action coming out of their Thursday summit on how to tackle what’s been called a “crisis” of rising auto thefts.
“We want to take action on something that that touches people in their daily lives,” Industry Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne said Wednesday morning on his way into the Liberal caucus meeting.
OTTAWA — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is promising that if his party forms government, car thieves will face more time in prison and be punished more severely if the thefts are linked to organized crime.
Poilievre will make those pledges at a campaign-style event in Brampton on Monday, the Star has learned, his latest effort to flesh out what he’d do if he becomes prime minister, and they’ll be followed by more this week.
Two teenagers are facing several charges after allegedly stealing a car that had a young child and baby inside.
Officers were called to the area of Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West around 3:30 p.m. Thursday after getting reports of a stolen vehicle.
Police said a woman was putting groceries into her car when a 13-year-old male allegedly jumped in the running vehicle and drove away. A four-year-old child and seven-month-old baby were inside at the time.
I used to live in that area back when Lawrence and Weston was like a prosperous small town downtown.
The neighborhood demographics changed as businesses started pulling out or closing, Loblaws, the Beer & the Liquor Store, Beaver Lumber, Countrystyle Donuts and the Odeon movie theatre.
Weston Road never recovered. It’s a ghetto now, shootings, stabbings etc. are a regular occurrence.
All that’s left is crappy dollar stores and vibrant diversity.
h/t Mauser
Violent crimes involving a firearm in Canada are increasing, a new report by Statistics Canada suggests.
According to the agency, there was an 8.9 per cent increase in firearm-related violent crimes(opens in a new tab) per 100,000 people in 2022.
“The 2022 rate of firearm-related violent crime is the highest since comparable data were first compiled in 2009,” the report published on Tuesday reads.
The case of an Ontario man accused of sending lethal substances to people who later took their own lives will proceed by direct indictment.
Kenneth Law is charged with 14 counts of both first-degree murder as well as counselling and aiding suicide.
Law appeared by video feed in court today where the prosecutors confirmed the attorney general had decided to proceed by direct indictment, sending the case directly to trial in Superior Court without a preliminary inquiry.
h/t Mauser
Almost eight tonnes of methamphetamine were seized by Canadian border agents in the Pacific Region last year — nearly four times all the illicit meth seizures combined from 2018 to 2022.
Despite the record finds by the Canada Border Services Agency, no one has been charged in B.C. for any of the massive loads, which were mostly destined for Australia and New Zealand and linked to transnational organized crime.
Critics say the lack of consequences is just one of the reasons B.C. — and Canada — has become a safe place to do business for some of the biggest international criminals.
Legalize crime, as pro-crime activists did in the name of ‘criminal justice reform’ and you don’t just get more crime, you get third world living conditions as criminals go after everything.
Seven Ford pickup trucks were stolen by thieves on Sunday night across three locations in central Ontario, marking the latest incident in Canada’s growing trend of vehicle thefts.
The Ford F-150s, most of which were 2023 models, were pilfered from residences in Barrie, Orangeville and Mono, with at least one of the thefts being caught on video surveillance.
While noting that a man was “factually guilty” of carrying a loaded handgun, a judge recently threw out the evidence and acquitted him after finding he was racially profiled by the OPP in Huntsville.
Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell found that the OPP violated no less than five different sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when officers arrested Tyrese Douglas-Hodgson during a traffic stop in March 2020, displaying “an almost complete indifference” to his rights.
MONTREAL — The federal government will convene a national summit to tackle auto theft in Canada, after a surge in stolen vehicles in Toronto and much of the country sparked concerns the problem is funding organized crime abroad.
Arriving at a downtown Montreal hotel for two days of meetings with the federal Liberal cabinet, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Sunday evening that he wants national, provincial and municipal governments and police forces to attend the summit, which is set for Feb. 8 in Ottawa.
Once they find out that Canada’s car theft rings are primarily racialized “minorities” the Liberals will Deep Six the inquiry.
11 charged after 52 stolen vehicles worth $3.2M recovered: York cops
OTTAWA – Canada has become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as illicit trade in the country is “booming,” according to a report by an American think tank.
“Canada has become a safe zone for the world’s most notorious crime groups and threat networks that are harming Canada’s national security and imperiling the security of other nations,” warns a report published in late November by the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE).
An old buddy of mine and I called it the “Mistaken Guy” routine.
Make an outrageous claim and double down on it. Like say Pink Floyd did Satisfaction. No, no, a lot of people think it was the Stones but it was, in fact, Pink Floyd.
The videos look like they are capturing something apocalyptic.
If you didn’t know better, you would swear they were doing a film shoot in Yorkdale mall on Saturday. There were police everywhere. And some had their big guns out.
This sort of enrichment has become common at Yorkdale and that’s bad for business so it’s no wonder this event is being downplayed.
