#toronto-organized-crime

#toronto-organized-crime

The expansion draft will have two rounds, with 12 total picks per round alternating between the Fire and Tempo, and will follow a snake format, meaning that after choosing 12th, the draft will 'snake' back around and the Tempo will also select 13th.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have now entered the chat... The Leafs fired general manager Brad Treliving on Monday. He didn't make it three full calendar years in the job, and had one year remaining on his contract.

The Donald Trump administration has insisted their actions are lawful and in compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict, with justification centred around "the United States' inherent right of self-defence as a matter of international law." The occupants targeted in the operation have been designated as "narco-terrorists" or members of "designated terrorist organizations," as a justification for blowing them out of the water-except, to date, no evidence or intelligence to back up those claims has been presented by the US to the public.

Police are looking for an inmate who escaped from a Toronto jail by allegedly impersonating another inmate who was to be released. Steven Alexander Guzman Marroquin, 32, of Toronto, allegedly escaped from the Toronto South Detention Centre in the area of Horner and Kipling Avenues on Monday just before noon, police said in a news release Tuesday. According to police, Marroquin impersonated another inmate who was due to be released from custody.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with threatening Ontario Premier Doug Ford, provincial police said Thursday. The Ontario Provincial Police, which is tasked with protecting premiers, said the investigation began in mid-February and culminated in the man facing one count of uttering threats to cause harm.

Five people have been taken to hospital after a stabbing incident at a home in North York Monday night, Toronto paramedics said. Toronto police say they were called to the Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue area around 9:44 p.m. for reports of unknown trouble at a residence. Police found four victims with various levels of injuries who have since been taken to hospital, three of whom had been stabbed.

More than a year after a deadly home invasion in Mississauga, Peel police say seven people have been arrested, and three have been charged with murder. The arrests are the result of a "complex and lengthy" homicide investigation into the death of Ruo Zhou Wei, 55, police said in a news release Monday. Wei was shot inside his home near Central Parkway W. and Confederation Parkway just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2024. He later died in hospital.

Emergency personnel were called to the area of Dundas Street W. and Acorn Avenue for reports of a pedestrian hit by vehicle at about 7:20 p.m., according to Insp. Jon Rose, spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service. Rose could not say if the pedestrian was in a crosswalk when he was struck. Paramedics took the man to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The inspector general, a relatively new arm's-length position tasked by the province with overseeing policing, was asked to investigate Thursday after eight current and retired Toronto officers were charged in an organized crime and corruption investigation. The case immediately raised questions about whether systemic issues contributed to organized crime's alleged infiltration of the ranks, said Kent Roach, a University of Toronto law professor and contributor to several high-profile police inquiries. Those questions, he said, are best answered by a civilian-led investigation.