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Police are investigating after two teen girls were allegedly criminally harassed at a Toronto transit station earlier this week. Toronto police said in a news release that at around 8 a.m. on Monday, a man was in the bus area of Wilson Station, located at Allen Road and Wilson Avenue. …
Read More »Alleged victims of disgraced senator frustrated by Red Chamber’s reaction to criminal charges
Two people who have accused former senator Don Meredith of abuse say they’re frustrated by the Senate’s failure to strip the ex-parliamentarian — now charged with sex crimes — of his “honourable” title and other parliamentary privileges. In an interview with CBC News, two of Meredith’s alleged victims — who have accused the former senator of …
Read More »Convicted B.C. sex criminal arrested in Cambodia for allegations of child rape
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about alleged sex crimes against children. Investigators in Canada and Cambodia are looking into the activities of a Vancouver man arrested for a number of sex crimes against Cambodian children. The Child Protection Unit, an investigative group affiliated with Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior and funded …
Read More »From food court to criminal court: Why people are being plucked off the street for jury duty
For those who dread jury duty, the idea of being plucked off the street and sent to court to immediately sit on a jury might sound like a nightmare, but it happens in Canada more often than you might imagine. Earlier this month, 50 Calgarians were summoned from a mall’s food court, at lunch …
Read More »Criminal probe into KPMG offshore tax scheme ends in secrecy
A criminal investigation by the Canada Revenue Agency of KPMG’s use of an offshore tax haven ended more than a year ago without any public announcements, sources have told Radio-Canada. The status of the case is uncertain. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) declined to comment on the file, as did federal prosecutors with …
Read More »Farm workers in cannabis grow-op raids often oblivious to criminal nature, OPP say
Illegal marijuana grow operations most often crop up on the Ontario Provincial Police’s radar in Essex County, and during raids, farm workers are “almost every time” completely unaware of the criminals behind the cannabis, police told CBC News. Organized crime entities use illegal cannabis grow operations as “easy, quick” cash that’s …
Read More »Holmes’ fate hangs in the balance as jury deliberates criminal fraud charges
Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in San Jose, California, on December 17, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Who is to blame for the implosion of Theranos, the ill-fated blood-testing startup that folded in 2018, and did it amount to fraud? …
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