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British Columbia police chiefs say half of all illegal narcotics seized on the province’s streets are being diverted from the NDP government’s safe supply program.
Moreover, they say BC’s decriminalization ‘experiment’ is precluding them from stopping illegal drug use in public spaces such as hospitals and health facilities.
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Read MoreOne of Ahmed Alid’s housemates told police the defendant was previously turned down for asylum in Germany
A Moroccan asylum seeker on trial for stabbing a pensioner to death in the street and attempting to murder a Christian convert in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict told police he would have killed “thousands” if he had a rifle, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Ahmed Alid, 45, is on trial for the death of 70-year-old Terence Carney, a stranger whom he allegedly stabbed in Hartlepool town centre on October 15 2023, eight days after the Hamas attacks on Israel.
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Read MoreThe hearing has ended
Senator Blumenthal concluded the hearing just now, as lawmakers are being called to the Senate floor for an unrelated manner.
“I would like to continue this hearing,” he says. “But Senator Johnson and I will be held accountable if we are not in our seats on the United States Senate before 1pm.”
He thanks the whistleblowers for being here and sharing their insight.
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Read MoreCanadian police have made arrests and issued nine warrants in the largest gold theft in the country’s history.
More than 6,500 gold bars worth C$20m ($14.5m/£11.6m), were stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, in April 2023, along with millions in cash.
The alleged driver was arrested in the US carrying dozens of guns that police say were intended for use in Canada.
Police said the “Netflix-series”-style heist was executed by a “well-organised group of criminals”.
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Read MoreNearly 37,000 Quebecers were the victims of frauds in 2023, an increase of 15 per cent over the previous two years, according to the Association des directeurs de police (ADPQ).
The ADPQ announced the “worrisome increase” in the number of frauds during a press conference Wednesday at the Sûreté du Québec’s headquarters in Montreal.
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Read MorePeel Regional Police said $90,000 of the approximately $20 million worth of stolen gold has been recovered. Officers believe the gold has been used in financing firearms trafficking and slammed the Trudeau Liberals’ bail system.
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Read MoreTwo Air Canada employees and a Toronto jewelry store owner were among the inner group that plotted the theft of nearly $24 million in gold and cash from a storage unit at Pearson International Airport a year ago, police say.
Just $90,000 worth of the stolen gold has been recovered, police said at a press conference Wednesday, as they announced six arrests and three outstanding warrants on the one year anniversary of the massive heist.
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Read MoreAn Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker.
Two knife attacks within three days – at a busy shopping centre near Bondi beach that killed six people on Saturday and at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney’s west on Monday – has shocked residents of Australia’s most populous city.
“I am doing fine, recovering very quickly … there is no need to be worried or concerned,” Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel said in an audio message posted on social media, his first public comments since the attack. “I forgive whoever has done this act … I will always pray for you and whoever sent you to do this, I forgive them as well.”
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Read MoreIt has been revealed that the Haitian illegal immigrant who allegedly killed his roommates in Middleton, New York earlier this month entered the United States using the Biden administration’s CBP One app.
Kenol Baptiste, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon before his deportation hearing was set to take place
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Read MoreSheriffs wrestled a man to the floor of an Edmonton courtroom after he tore off his shirt and threw a punch following his conviction for killing a man in a local homeless shelter.
Stanley Jago repeatedly interrupted the decision in his manslaughter trial Tuesday, swearing at Court of King’s Bench Justice Anna Loparco and claiming without evidence someone else was responsible for killing Thomas Gignac in the Herb Jamieson men’s shelter.
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