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Toronto Police Services responded to a break-and-enter call from Kehillat Sharei Torah synagogue in Toronto, Ont. at 3:52 a.m. on Friday.
When officers arrived at the synagogue on Bayview Avenue and Fifeshire Road, they discovered five windows were damaged.
According to the police, there was no graffiti found and nothing was stolen from the location.
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Read MoreKhalistani secessionists burned and slashed Indian flags at a protest at India’s Vancouver consulate marking 300 days since the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar was killed last year outside of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada believes was potentially an assassination carried out by “agents of the Indian government.”
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Read MoreBritish 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 MoreSARAH, short for Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, is a virtual health worker that’s available to talk 24/7 in eight different languages to explain topics like mental health, tobacco use and healthy eating. It’s part of the WHO’s campaign to find technology that can both educate people and fill staffing gaps with the world facing a health-care worker shortage.
WHO warns on its website that this early prototype, introduced on April 2, provides responses that “may not always be accurate.” Some of SARAH’s AI training is years behind the latest data. And the bot occasionally provides bizarre answers, known as hallucinations in AI models, that can spread misinformation about public health.
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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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