Thursday’s charges against seven current Toronto Police officers and one retired cop is among the largest police corruption scandals in the city’s history.
Following a months-long investigation, it’s alleged the cops were involved in extortion, drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit murder, and other crimes.
American prosecutors are not saying whether they will seek the death penalty for Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of being a cocaine kingpin, if he is convicted of drug trafficking and murder conspiracy.
That uncertainty could stoke tensions between the U.S. and Canada, which outlawed capital punishment in 1976. Since 1999, the last time a Canadian citizen was executed in the United States, Canadian courts have directed cabinet ministers, diplomats and law-enforcement officials to take steps to try to prevent the execution of Canadians on death row.
Former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in an investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein late on Monday, possibly averting a planned vote to hold them in contempt of Congress.
“They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone,” Clinton spokesperson Angel Urena said on X.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee had recommended contempt proceedings saying, “Clintons are not above the law,” after the couple declined to appear in person.
Lord Mandelson has been reported to the police for leaking confidential Downing Street files to Jeffrey Epstein.
The Metropolitan Police has received referrals from both Reform and the SNP asking them to investigate the peer, who allegedly sent the documents when he was business secretary.
Documents released by the US justice department revealed that, in 2009, Lord Mandelson had forwarded an economic briefing for Mr Brown to Epstein captioning it: “Interesting note that’s gone to the PM.”
h/t Mauser
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein described himself as a “Tier One” sexual predator in a videotaped interview with former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon that was released by the Justice Department Friday.
The financier, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, clarified that he was at “the lowest” level of perversion in response to offscreen questions from Bannon — who fell in with Epstein after leaving President Trump’s first administration and sought to improve the sex offender’s public image, The Post reported this past summer.
🚨 Before it gets deleted: The full Jeffrey Epstein Interview by Steve Bannon.
A lot of information surrounding the Epstein files has been taken down and redacted. Make sure to bookmark and repost this so more people can see it before it's also taken down.
unedited (by me) 1hr… pic.twitter.com/WbbNMIyF9T
— Alex James (@actualAlexJames) February 1, 2026
OTTAWA — A trespassing investigation that began at Western University and led to the discovery of what court documents describe as “numerous precursor substances and finished high explosives” has now broadened to include warrant executions in Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec, London Police Service announced Friday.
They confirmed in an update today that additional warrants have been executed in the National Capital Region as part of the ongoing investigation, with assistance from the Ottawa Police Service, Gatineau Police Service, and the Sûreté du Québec.
Diversity Gang War?
The Department of Justice on Friday released the largest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files to date, a giant tranche including three million more pages of documents and thousands of videos and images.
The documents shed new light on the disgraced financier’s relationships with several prominent figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. They also contain a significant number of uncorroborated tips to law enforcement.
Congress mandated the release in November, and President Trump signed the bill despite initially opposing it, as he has sought to put an end to the accusations and speculation swirling around the case. The latest batch of documents arrived weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline imposed by Congress.
A Canadian national pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after admitting he sexually exploited over 100 children by creating an online persona and targeting them on social media.
Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, of Toronto, Canada, pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography and to coercion and enticement of a minor. Pathmanathan was arrested on Dec. 3, 2025, after being temporarily surrendered to the United States, where he has remained incarcerated pending trial.
Ramanan Pathmanathan: A 40-year-old Toronto man who pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on January 30, 2026, for the sexual exploitation of over 100 children online. He was previously sentenced to 12 years in Canada for similar offenses in 2022 but was released to offend again under Canada’s ludicrous justice system.
Earlier this month, the shocking video of a man shooting up a Brampton home while brandishing two pistols was the first time many had heard much about extortion rings.
Yet, in communities across Canada, especially those with a significant Indian immigrant population, extortion has been a rising concern for years now.
Carney wants the criminal alien vote bloc too much to enforce the law.
New Jeffrey Epstein emails describe Bill Gates having ‘sex with Russian girls’, catching an ‘STD’, then planning to ‘surreptitiously give’ antibiotics to his then-wife Melinda, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
The shocking emails, sent from Epstein’s account to himself in July 2013, appear to be drafts of a letter intended to be sent by Gates’ then-top advisor Boris Nikolic, around his resignation from the Microsoft billionaire’s charitable foundation.
Appearing to write from the point of view of Nikolic, the email offers his resignation, then says ‘During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill.’
Oh my https://t.co/yJCVg1cqdF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2026
As his flight departed from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport en route to Kuwait via Istanbul, Canadian crypto fugitive Andean Medjedovic was unaware that his globe-trotting lifestyle would soon be halted.
Just two weeks later, on Dec. 11, 2023, Dutch authorities issued a European arrest warrant for the then 21-year-old, alleging he had pulled off a “sophisticated hack” that netted him $48 million US in cryptocurrency.
… The fifth estate emailed Medjedovic to request a comment on the allegations against him.
He replied: “I have only one defence to the allegations: ‘I’m a racist.’ Please include that, that’s all, thanks.”
Another reason to avoid crypto.
Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that 29 friends of Jeffrey Epstein were shielded through ‘secret settlements’ by the Justice Department.
The disgraced socialite filed a habeas corpus petition on December 17 seeking to overturn her conviction, arguing that prosecutors cut deals with Epstein associates while prosecuting her as if no such agreements existed.
Maxwell alleges that 25 men reached undisclosed deals, while four alleged co-conspirators were known to investigators but never charged. She does not name any of the individuals.
Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the country was in an “emergency situation” and stopping the use of children in criminal networks was a “crucial task” for the government.
But several authorities, including police, prison officials and prosecutors, have opposed the plan, with some worried that it may lead to even younger children becoming offenders.
Ryan Wedding, the Canadian former Olympic snowboarder accused of cocaine distribution and orchestrating several murders, appeared on Monday in a southern California courtroom for arraignment.
The 44-year-old has been charged with drug trafficking, conspiracy to murder, witness tampering and money laundering, among other charges. Authorities allege that after his snowboarding career, Wedding “turned to a life of crime” as a narcotics trafficker and led an organization that moved cocaine from South America to the US and Canada.
Before Ryan Wedding was arrested last week as one of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives, and before he was charged a decade earlier for masterminding a plot to sail thousands of kilos of cocaine up from the Caribbean to Canada’s East Coast, Canadian police viewed the former Olympic snowboarder as one of the many middling profiteers in Metro Vancouver’s massive underground cannabis trade.
It was 2006, and Mounties, acting on an anonymous tip given to the Vancouver police, raided a farm in the eastern suburb of Maple Ridge. There they found thousands of pot plants and dozens of kilograms of dried flower, worth roughly $10-million at the time.
