Police are intensifying their search for a masked gunman who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a busy New York City street Wednesday morning. Thompson, 50, was a prominent figure in the health-care industry, leading one of the nation’s largest insurers. A married father of two teenage sons, he lived in a Minneapolis
Calgary police have charged a former member of the force with breach of trust and misuse of a computer system, following a 16-month-long investigation. CPS Chief Mark Neufeld announced details of the charges and investigation during a Wednesday news conference.Investigators believe that 51-year-old Brett Singer, a 16-year veteran of the force, engaged in personal relationships
Second Cup Canada is moving to shut down a franchisee’s cafés located in Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital after they claim the franchisee was filmed apparently chanting the “Final Solution is coming your way” referencing Nazi Germany’s slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust. Footage that appears to have been recorded at a Thursday protest
Coercive debt and financial abuse are a “systematic” part of how sex traffickers operate in Canada, with at least a quarter of all survivors dealing with fraudulent debt. Julia Drydyk, executive director of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, says that research they did in 2020 on human trafficking corridors in Canada found that
RCMP federal investigators say they have dismantled the largest drug superlab in Canadian history. Assistant Commissioner David Teboul the RCMP’s commander of federal policing for the Pacific Region, told reporters on Thursday that several months of investigative work into a transnational organized crime group involved in the production and distribution of massive quantities of illicit
Without naming it, advocates say it is easy for people to pretend the murder of women and girls because of their gender is not happening. While the recent slaying of an Ottawa mother in a park is bringing more awareness to the term femicide — generally described as the killing of a female because of
An Ontario man is facing dangerous operation and impaired charges in connection to a fatal May long weekend boat crash that left three people dead. Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) announced the charges Wednesday – five months after the May 18 crash took the lives of Riley Orr, Juliette Cote and Kaila Bearman.Just after 9:30 p.m.
An Ontario mother who was killed in front of her children at a park in the nation’s capital is another case of femicide, Ottawa police say. On Thursday at around 11:25 a.m., police responded to reports a woman had been stabbed at a park near Uplands and Paul Anka drives in Ottawa.Deputy Chief Trish Ferguson
Prosecutors have recommended that Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars. The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Although prosecutors do recommend resentencing
A shocking scene unfolded in a B.C. courtroom on Monday, as a fistfight broke out after two men pleaded guilty to murdering a man acquitted in the 1985 Air India bombing. Ripudaman Singh Malik was fatally shot in Surrey in July 2022. In 2005, Malik was acquitted in the Air India bombing that killed more