-- Two more people, Misbah Akram, 55, and Saqlain Akram, 28, have been arrested in connection with a major credit card fraud scheme.   One suspect, Muhammad Akram, 59, remains at large.. Police said there were $4 million in losses." --

-- "Twins Lenneil Shaw and Shakiyl Shaw who were initially convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Jarryl Hagley, 17, at a Toronto restaurant in 2016 have pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, but, with credit for time served, both are now free. Both men had been out on bail after winning an appeal that ordered a new trial last February." --

-- "Durham Regional Police are searching for a man who shot at a business at Hopkins Street and Nichol Avenue in Whitby on Wednesday night." --

-- "Two suspects are wanted after shooting at 'industrial units' at Denison Street and Don Park Road in Markham early Friday morning." --

-- "Reminds me of a story I heard from my Toronto ALS Medic buddy. He's at Sunnybrook Hospital Trauma Unit after serving up yet another bullet-riddled gangbanger and a young nurse, obviously not long in the trenches, asks him...  'Where do you take all the white people who get shot?'" --

-- "The Crown announced it was 'no longer viable' to re-prosecute Sylvia Consuelo's previously convicted killer, Najib Amin, after the Court of Appeal recently threw out key evidence against him and ordered a new trial." --

Note this wasn't just a garden variety murder... Consuelo had also been sexually assaulted with a long, rigid object that tore her insides. 

Another activist judge overruling a jury conviction.

-- "I snapped. I took my little Ka-Bar military combat knife and I drove it straight into my mother’s back," he said at the time. "My father came up because he heard her screams and I stabbed the fuck out of him. Oh, I killed the dog, too. It was barking." --

-- "Arman Dhillon, 27, of Alberta, gunned down in a double shooting in Oakville last week was acquitted of murder in a 2016 Edmonton shooting." --

-- "Sathiskumar 'Ryan' Rajaratnam, 34, has been arrested and been charged with second-degree murder after a man was fatally stabbed in a Scarborough apartment building last weekend." --

-- "Two men have died after they were shot in broad daylight Tuesday in what Montreal police say are the 20th and 21st homicides of the year." --

-- "Meanwhile, the House of Commons is still considering BILL C-5, an act that would REPEAL A HOST OF MANDATORY MINIMUM PENALTIES, including those for smuggling firearms. The idea is to reduce the 'overincarceration rate of Indigenous peoples' as well as for other 'MARGINALIZED CANADIANS.'" --

-- "Three women from Montreal, aged 18, 19 and 23, face charges after Ontario Provincial Police officers used rolling blocks to stop a trio of stolen Dodge Ram trucks on Highway 401 in less than two hours Tuesday morning." --

-- "Christopher Spencer, a 36-year-old Mississauga man, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and discharging a firearm with intent following a shooting at a Mississauga home earlier this month." --

-- "A 30-year-old Mississauga man, Christopher Edward Spencer faces a number of charges for allegedly forcing a 19-year-old woman to work in the sex trade." --

"TORONTO -- The lead detective on the horrific murder of an Ontario doctor says the killer made one big mistake when trying to cover up the crime, leaving investigators a calling card that led them straight to his door."  -- 

 Doctor Elana Fric--Shamji's husband, renowned neurosurgeon Mohammad Shamji, is serving a life sentence for beating and strangling his wife, then stuffing her body in a suitcase, and throwing it into a river north of the city."

“'If I ever go missing, or if something ever happens to me, you will know who did it,' Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji confided to a friend amid escalating physical and emotional abuse as she considered divorcing her husband, Toronto neurosurgeon Dr. Mohammed Shamji."

"When the Brampton court convened to discuss sentencing the despicable father for starving his toddler to death, Frank O’Dea was nowhere to be found."

-- "Police are seeking the public’s help in locating Elison Teliska, 27, of Toronto, a 'violent and dangerous' aggravated assault suspect. He is wanted for two counts of assault, aggravated assault, and assault – choking." --

Ontario’s highest court is sending a gunman back to trial after a judge’s shocking decision to acquit him of trying to kill a Peel Regional Police officer and wound his partner.

Peter Aiken fired at least five shots at the officers with an illegal semi-automatic Glock 22 pistol. Of course he was on probation and under a weapons prohibition at the time.  --  

"It’s the third shooting incident in Thunder Bay in less than a week."

"More than 2.2 million Canadians have a firearms licence and very few of those people are using them in crimes.  But nearly every gun seized by Toronto police that is involved in a crime is unregistered and in the hands of people who wouldn’t qualify for a gun under current Canadian regulations."

A fifth man, Xue Mao Gong, has been convicted in the 2016 murder of Kong Wu Wang, 50, who was abducted outside an illegal Toronto gambling house.

"On Thursday, April 22, 2021, Antwan Triston James, 18, of Toronto, who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, surrendered to Toronto Police. He is charged with First-Degree Murder."

Police believe it began when another gang member posted a rap video daring Dunkley to walk up on him. Dunkley, then released a “response” video showing him and his entourage prowling though the rival neighbourhood.

At least 10 shootings and two homicides appear to be connected to these videos.

"Toronto Police are investigating after a body was found in the water in Farlinger Ravine Park near Eglinton Avenue East and Kennedy Road just before 11 am."

"A coroner has identified a body found underneath ice in a Markham pond on Saturday afternoon as that of missing Scarborough woman Taneesha Brown."

"A male has been rushed to hospital after being shot at Jane Street and Eddystone Avenue near Jane and Finch around 8pm."

Two teenagers have been seriously injured after being shot in Etobicoke Wednesday evening.

OTTAWA - Mustafa Ahmed, the accused in the fatal 2016 shooting at a ByWard Market nightclub says he only fired his gun in self-defence after another drug dealer, Omar Rashid-Ghader, tried to take over his sale."

"I was terrified. I was only trying to save my own life," Ahmed testified.

Obviously Mustafa is a serious closer.

The paper was swiftly lampooned when it promoted the project on Twitter on Tuesday. Many critics mocked the over-the-top fawning. Others said the type of coverage simply isn’t journalism.

The Los Angeles Times did not respond to a request for comment.

TORONTO • "It was worth a try."

"Twin brothers Darko and Daniel Stojanovski were appealing their convictions for a brazen daylight shooting that left Rexdale father of three Nassundu Williams confined to a wheelchair."

"They were hoping COVID-19 was the magic bullet that would help spring them on bail."

"And why? Because he and Darko Stojanovski got into an argument about Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political activist."

OTTAWA • "The Supreme Court of Canada is to decide today whether it will hear an appeal from a young man who killed four people and injured seven others in a mass shooting in northern Saskatchewan."

• La Loche, SK • “The community usually pulls together really strong in times like this,” said Clearwater River Dene Nation Chief Teddy Clark on Friday.

“This is an absolute tragedy and it’s no one’s fault,” said Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon."

"While his 84-year-old grandmother pleaded with him in Italian and struggled to defend herself, Colatosti stabbed her 11 times."

WINNIPEG • "A man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom."

There’s Shamso Mohamoud, whose 18-year-old son was shot in the head near a Yorkdale mall housing complex in 2008. There’s Ayan Ali Abddow, whose 17-year-old son was fatally stabbed outside an Etobicoke apartment in 2016.

There’s Shamso Elmi, whose 24-year-old son was killed in 2015 in Vancouver.

Every woman here has been touched by the violence they say is crippling their community. The mothers say their Canadian-born Somali youth face disproportionate gun and gang violence.

A jury found Abdulahi Hasan Sharif guilty Friday on all charges, including five counts of attempted murder, after a three-week trial that was in part defined by what wasn’t before the jury.

TORONTO - A jury wasted little time in convicting Najib Amin of first-degree murder. Jurors delivered their verdict Monday night after about six hours of deliberation.

Amin, 31, wrongly believed Sylvia Consuelo, 34, was inflicted with AIDS and had unprotected sex with three men, including his brother and a friend, said Crown attorney Scott Arnold.

Consuelo, who was never HIV positive, was found half-naked on Jan. 30, 2016, in her apartment at 121 Kendleton Dr. in Rexdale.

"The family of a doctor beaten to death to by her Toronto neurosurgeon husband Mohammed Shamji in 2016 says the grief they feel will never match the impact her death will have on her three young children."

"Two days after Shamji, 43, was served with divorce papers in November 2016, he strangled his wife in the bedroom of their home and dumped her body in the Humber River."

Gun control proposal: Make it illegal for Democrats to own guns

Why would Dems object? Solves half the problem.

As the shooter fled, an off-duty Border Patrol agent inside the synagogue opened fire, missing him but striking his getaway vehicle.

"On December 9, 2018, Breitbart News reported that California firearm homicides were up 18 percent 2014-2016, despite the passage of gun control after gun control law."

After the killing of a 17-year-old, Winston Poyser, now 26, was arrested for first-degree murder. He told police he was present, but it was twin brothers Shakiyl and Lenneil Shaw and Mohamed Ali-Nur who were responsible for shooting Jarryl Hagley inside the pizza outlet in the Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West.

A Toronto man, Simeon Harty, convicted of the unprovoked fatal shooting of Kevin Gidden, a young man a judge described as “quiet, happy and loving” was sent to prison for life Thursday with no parole eligibility for 14 years.

A 75-year-old man, Shou Quan Chen, then 70, charged in the 2014 death of a woman beaten to death in a park near the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre has been found guilty of second-degree murder.

The shooting is the latest in a string of mob-related crimes in the Hamilton area over the past few years. Angelo Musitano, Pat’s younger brother, was shot and killed while sitting in a pickup truck in the driveway of his family home on Chesapeake Dr. on May 2, 2017.

Earlier this year, 43-year-old Cece Luppino was found dead inside a Mountain Brow Blvd. home that belonged to his father, Rocco.

TORONTO — A Toronto neurosurgeon was fighting with his wife who wanted a divorce when he choked her to death in their home while their three children were sleeping.  After the killing, Mohammed packed his wife’s body in a suitcase and drove about 35 kilometres north of the city and dumped the suitcase in the Humber River.”

Erica Fric-Shamji suffered injuries all over her body – including a broken neck and ribs – before her husband choked her to death.

Shamji carried on with his daily routine after the slaying, including performing surgeries the next day, and lied about his missing wife’s whereabouts, the Crown said. He also planted evidence aimed at pointing the finger at his wife’s lover, court heard.

“If I ever go missing, or if something ever happens to me, you will know who did it,” Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji confided to a friend amid escalating physical and emotional abuse as she considered divorcing her husband, Toronto neurosurgeon Dr. Mohammed Shamji.

If you kill someone with a gun in Toronto — you have a three in five chance of getting away with murder.

Shauna Brown said her son’s case “could be solved at any time,” if certain people broke free from “the pull of the street mentality” and gave information to police.

"Three teens have been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a 49-year-old man outside a bar at Steeles Avenue and Weston Road."

Shaquwan Reid, 18, of Toronto has been charged with second-degree murder.

"Hamilton police are investigating after a 19-year-old man was reportedly shot to death in the city’s east end early this morning. He has since been identified as Natshon Defreitas of Toronto."