Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière has appointed an independent observer to oversee the investigations into racism allegations involving Montreal police officers, over a week after the force dismantled a patrol unit in Montréal-Nord and suspended two officers. Lafrenière announced Saturday that lawyer Anne-Marie Boisvert will monitor…
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Two fugitives wanted for financial crimes have been arrested in Ontario after nearly five years on the lam. Fernando Honorate de…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. While investigating allegations of corruption at Calgary city hall, police say they uncovered text messages sent by former councillor Sean Chu…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Four people have been charged in a fraud investigation into a $48-million financial scheme, according to Waterloo Regional Police. Police said its commercial fraud unit recently completed a complex, multi-year investigation into a local firearms and ammunition distribution business, along with a commercial financing company. Between 2016…
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette followed in her predecessor’s footsteps on Monday when asked whether systemic racism exists in the province. Fréchette…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Montreal police chief Fady Dagher says he’s determined to see the allegations of racial profiling and discrimination against police officers in Montréal-Nord…
WARNING: This story contains details of violence and sexual exploitation, including rape. Multiple women who are alleged victims in a deepfake investigation involving their real faces in AI-generated scenes of rape and torture say the Ottawa Police Service is not leading a “trauma-informed” investigation, despite what the force says. “I’d really like to know who…
In early March, the American consulate in Toronto was shot at. RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather, overseeing the investigation, called the event “a national security incident,” though he cautioned it was “too early” to determine whether the perpetrators were connected to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A 43-year-old Toronto police constable has died after being shot after an exchange of gunfire with a suspect in the northwest…
A man shot in broad daylight in a targeted killing at an office building in Surrey, B.C., early last month was allegedly a “main handler” for the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang and had alleged ties to cricket fixing, the fifth estate has learned. The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the man was killed in…