The uniquely pernicious Canadian crime trend sweeping the country - "These organized thefts have helped make shoplifting one of the fastest growing categories of Canadian crime. A July data release by Statistics Canada found that shoplifting had increased 66 per cent between 2014 and 2024... And those are just the incidents getting reported. Save Our Streets, a newly formed B.C. group pushing for reduced civic disorder, has often made the case that businesses are so demoralized by high crime that many have stopped reporting incidents... As to why organized shoplifting is so pernicious in Canada, one factor is that the vast majority of shoplifters get away with it. B.C., for instance, charted 36,851 police-reported shoplifting incidents, but only 4,040 people charged. And even if caught, the penalties for shoplifting – even of the organized high-value variety – are extraordinarily light. Earlier this year, a serial shoplifter in Prince George, B.C., was handed 30 days of house arrest, with allowances to leave for work or medical appointments. Brampton, Ont. man Satnampal Chawla was found to be the ringleader of a multi-million dollar shoplifting ring targeting major retailers and reselling the stolen goods on Amazon. He was ultimately handed six months of house arrest, with the judge wishing Chawla well in his new career as a real estate agent. After an RCMP anti-shoplifting blitz in Langford, B.C., arrested 27 people, one third of those were immediately spared any criminal consequences. A police statement said they “met the criteria for Restorative Justice and were deferred away from the criminal justice system.” In March, even a man who charged into a Vancouver London Drugs with a pipe and threatened to kill staff was given just a 60-day sentence. “Perpetrators see little consequence for their actions within the justice system,” John Graham with the Retail Council of Canada told CTV in May. The council has estimated that $9.1 billion was lost to shoplifting in 2024. For context, in that same year, the combined cost of running every police agency in the country was about $20 billion. However, an unofficial response to the organized shoplifting trend has started to emerge: Security guards or members of the public taking the initiative to tackle and restrain organized shoplifting gangs before they can get away."
How awful. All those violent thugs attacking poor defenseless criminals need to be charged for assault and wrongful confinement!
Geoff Russ: Carney already eroding Canadians' trust in government - "Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, a survey found that 64 per cent of respondents reported feeling that crime and violence had worsened. In January, another survey found that one-third of newcomers to Ontario, such as Ukrainians and Indians, felt safer in their countries of origin than in Canada. Canada now experiences higher property crime rates than many of its developed-world peers, particularly in recent years, with notable increases compared to countries like the United States. Car theft has become so widespread that some have dubbed Canada as “ground zero” for the crime, with instances rising an eye-popping 561 per cent in Toronto between 2018 and 2023. In 2024, reported shootings in Toronto rose to 461 , up 34 per cent from the previous year. In that same timespan, documented violent assaults stretched to a high of 25,819 instances... Retail theft has become commonplace, leading to increased costs for small business owners and endangering employees with losses of $9.1 billion in 2024. Workers at Loblaws are being issued body cameras to ward off aggressive and potentially violent behaviour from would-be thieves or other assailants, much good it may do them. Failed government policies around bail, sentencing, and safer supply are largely to blame. Safer supply, endorsed by the Liberals, and deployed by provincial governments like the B.C. NDP, has been a disaster . Attempts to gaslight the public into believing that giving narcotics to addicts is a good idea have been insulting to the intelligence of everyday people who saw the effects in real-time. A recent damning study found that, unsurprisingly, the B.C. government’s policy of distributing free narcotics to drug addicts as well as decriminalization policies have failed to mitigate the opioid crisis. The report found that the safe supply program resulted in no net decrease in deaths and overdoses. To make matters worse, earlier reports discovered that safe supply opioids were being diverted for tracking on the black market. If the federal or provincial government simply asked people who live in proximity to Vancouver’s downtown eastside they could have gotten the same conclusion for free. In Canada today, it’s become unsurprising to see addicts cleaning crack pipes or improperly disposed of drug paraphernalia with government labelling in the local Tim Hortons. Canada’s most iconic coffee chain now doubles as a makeshift drug den. Notably, the same federal survey that found such low trust in parliament also found that the police were the most trusted public institution, with 65 per cent having high confidence in the officers. Even if Ottawa and the provinces became fully committed to getting tough on drugs, crime, and disorder, the courts would still stand in the way. If bad public policy is one branch of the decaying tree sucking the trust out of Canadian life, the judiciary is another. In 2019, a van was stopped on the highway by police in British Columbia. A sniffer dog detected drugs being transported on board, which turned out to be 27,500 pills of fentanyl, the opioid that has contributed to the deaths of over 50,000 Canadians since 2016. A judge let the suspect off the hook because the dog improperly sat down, their trained signal to indicate they can smell hidden illegal substances. Apparently, this was a violation of the suspect’s Charter rights because the “partial sit-down” did not warrant a search of his vehicle. Judges’ creative Charter uses aside, increased policing appears to help and might restore trust in institutions. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim fulfilled one of his signature election promises from 2022 by hiring 100 police officers to bolster the ranks of the Vancouver Police Department. Unsurprisingly, crime rates fell , with violent crime down 6.6 per cent, and property crime declining by almost 11 per cent. The mere presence of more police is an effective way to deter crime, let alone using their powers to combat it."
Time to be even more compassionate and empathetic, because those are virtues
Trust the Experts!
Two-thirds of B.C. businesses say crime and street disorder getting worse
Meme - "Violent crime rate in Canada from 2002 to 2023 (per 100,000 residents) *falling slightly under Cretien (sic) and Martin, then falling much more under Harper, then rising under Trudeau back to where it started from*"
Police union speaks out as suspect in downtown stabbings previously let out on bail - "The suspect was taken into custody on Sunday and charged with 17 offences, including three counts of failing to comply with a release order. Police have alleged that the suspect is responsible for three “unprovoked” stabbings that took place over the course of the previous week... A suspect, 23-year-old Duncan MacKenzie, of no fixed address, was scheduled to appear in court on Monday to answer to the charges."
Man stabbed multiple times in random attack outside Niagara Falls City Hall - "Luizao Miguel Castro, 35, of no fixed address has been charged with aggravated assault, failure to comply with a release order and failure to comply with probation."
Stéphane Sérafin: The Charter is for mass murderers, not the rest of us "Although the text of the Charter certainly guarantees rights to everyone, judicial interpretation has over time undermined its universal character, transforming it from a traditional rights instrument that guarantees equal rights to all persons, into an instrument of rights distribution that rewards decidedly unaverage litigants at the expense of virtually everyone else. Consider the following cases. The average Canadian, regardless of sex, race or creed, is likely not going to consume drugs in public parks, nor is the average Canadian likely to erect a tent, let alone a tent city, in such a park. But judges have interpreted the Charter in a way that at least presumptively guarantees the “right” to do both of these things , at the expense of the ability of everyone else to make use of these public spaces. Likewise, the average Canadian, regardless of sex, race or creed, is unlikely to commit multiple violent offenses, or for that matter to commit a sexual offense such as sexual interference with a minor. Yet the Supreme Court has concluded that multiple murderers can’t be subjected to “stacked” parole ineligibility periods — precisely the issue that Poilievre’s proposed use of section 33 would seek to address — and held that imposing a mandatory six month minimum sentence on someone who lures and has sexual intercourse with a minor amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment.” Decidedly unaverage defendants benefit in both cases, while everyone else must contend with the resulting degradation of public order. Conversely, the average Canadian is increasingly less likely to be protected by the Charter in the things that he or she actually does. Let’s assume, for instance, that the average Canadian is a parent. Some older decisions suggest that the average Canadian’s parental rights will be protected under the Charter . Yet the Charter is now being weaponized against parents, including for the purpose of denying them access to information necessary to properly discharge their duties to act in the best interests of their children. This is occurring most notably in the ongoing challenge to Saskatchewan’s law requiring parental notification and consent to a change in their child’s recorded name or pronouns. Perhaps the Courts will resist the conclusions being urged upon them by activist litigants in these cases. But that is far from a foregone conclusion. What if we assume that the average Canadian is female? Surely one might think that if the Charter benefits someone, it is women. But unrestricted access to abortion, if one considers this desirable, has never been mandated by the Charter. Meanwhile, the Charter has to date been of little assistance to women who have dared to express their views on the importance of sex-segregated spaces . More broadly, there are serious reasons to doubt that the Charter will offer much protection to anyone, male or female, who expresses a political opinion at odds with prevailing left-liberal orthodoxies, even as those who hold such adverse opinions may include upwards of 70 per cent of the Canadian population. This concern is particularly salient, given that Liberal Leader Mark Carney has suggested that he would revive Bill C-63, also known as the “Online Harms Act,” if elected. This Bill would impose potential life imprisonment for “hate speech,” in addition to allowing private actors to bring human rights complaints against anyone they believe to have engaged in such speech... The result is a problem not just for the legitimacy of the Charter, but also for the broader rule of law. Fortunately, the framers of the 1982 Constitution foresaw this possibility, as they had at their disposal the precedent of the Lochner-era U.S. Supreme Court, which routinely invalidated legislation promulgated in the common good for the benefit of entrenched economic interests. It is for this reason that the framers of the 1982 Constitution included section 33 in the Charter. We should not be concerned when it is used for its intended purpose."
Mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada - "Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election promise to use the constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on those who commit multiple murders has prompted predictable outrage from Canada’s chattering classes. Ditto his promise of a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out law,” which would deny criminals convicted of three serious offences bail, probation, parole or house arrest. Proposals to seriously toughen Canada’s criminal justice system are always greeted with opposition from “progressive” politicians, criminologists, criminal lawyers and the liberal media, all of whom ignore, have forgotten or never knew Adam Smith’s famous warning that “mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” The inevitable result has been Canada’s kid-glove treatment of criminals – easy bail, soft sentencing, statutory release, early parole that makes a mockery of sentences pronounced in court, special treatment for members of some minority groups, keeping the identities of young offenders secret even when they commit murder, and on and on. Parole for many criminals comes as early as one-third of their sentence while unescorted temporary absences can begin when as little as one-sixth of the sentence has been served. Our current Liberal government has re-enforced this philosophy – for example, in 2019 when it passed legislation requiring the courts to grant bail to people accused of crimes at the earliest opportunity, with the least onerous conditions. Or in 2022 when it passed legislation removing mandatory minimum sentences for numerous gun crimes, arguing they unfairly impacted Black and Indigenous offenders. The origin of the federal government’s obsession with protecting the rights of criminals over victims goes back more than half a century to the government of then-Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau. On Oct. 7, 1971, Canada’s then-solicitor general, Jean-Pierre Goyer, rose in Parliament to announce a new approach for dealing with criminals “to stress the rehabilitation of individuals rather than the protection of society” that would have profound implications for the justice system for decades to come... The Charter of Rights, passed in 1982 during the Trudeau government, further expanded the rights of criminals. When the Harper Conservative government of 2006 to 2015 attempted to toughen legislation to combat crime, it was met with a wave of entrenched opposition by “progressive” politicians, academics, criminal lawyers, liberal media and, in many cases, the courts, which continues to this day."
Disgrace on the Bench: How Canadian Judges Betray Public Safety - "Canada’s courts have been on a downward spiral for years, routinely siding with criminals over victims, gutting deterrence, and turning sentencing into a complete farce. Consider just these few examples:
R. v. Gladue (1999) – Established a two-tier justice system with special sentencing considerations for Indigenous offenders.
R. v. Nur (2015) – The Supreme Court struck down mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, enabling lenient rulings.
R. v. Lavallee (2017) – Citing the offender’s Indigenous background and difficult upbringing, a Manitoba judge imposed no jail time for a severe assault that left a victim permanently injured.
R. v. Vader (2017) – Travis Vader was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder in the deaths of elderly couple Lyle and Marie McCann. He received a life sentence but with parole eligibility after just 7 years.
R. v. McClintic (2018) – Terri-Lynne McClintic, convicted in the murder of 8-year-old Tori Stafford, was transferred from prison to an Indigenous healing lodge. Public outrage eventually forced her return to maximum security.
R. v. Husbands (2019) – Christopher Husbands, who opened fire in Toronto’s Eaton Centre food court killing two and injuring several others, had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter. He is allowed to apply for parole after 16 years.
R. v. Bissonnette (2022) – The Supreme Court ruled that even mass murderers deserve a chance at parole after 25 years.
R. v. Khill (2021) – A homeowner who shot an armed intruder was put through legal hell while real criminals walk free.
R. v. Sharma (2022) – The Supreme Court further weakened sentencing for serious crimes under the guise of “systemic discrimination.”
Canada’s judges have betrayed their duty to the public. They treat criminals as victims and law-abiding citizens as the real offenders. Their moral compass is so broken they can’t tell justice from absurdity – or right from wrong... Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens who dare to protect themselves are relentlessly prosecuted. If you store your legally owned firearm incorrectly, expect jail time. If you defend your home against an armed intruder, expect to be charged."
Police seek info after 9 speed cameras in Vaughan damaged : r/Vaughan - "High rise in crime : I sleep
Going 10 over the speed limit : Real shit"
IYO, what ruined Dundas Sq? : r/askTO - ""An Ontario family is calling for changes to the criminal justice system to keep repeat offenders behind bars after one of its members was allegedly shot and injured by a 12-year-old boy who was out on bail last month."
"Police have said the suspect was out on bail for unrelated violent offences at the time of the incident, and they confirmed he was released on bail again Wednesday "
So he was out on bail. Took a gun into a neighborhood. Shot someone. WHILE ON BAIL. Then is out on bail again. You cant make that up. You get what you voted for. period."
Raquel Dancho on X - "Shocking: Two arrests for violent assaults—in the same night—only to be released right back into the community. This is Canada’s justice system under the Liberals’ catch-and-release policies. Disgraceful."
Man given bail twice in one night after violent assaults - "An Alberta resident arrested twice in one night is accused of forcibly confining a teenager at a hotel, where police say they later tried to suffocate their intimate partner. The accused was also released from police custody twice after separate bail hearings for each of the alleged violent incidents."
Day parole reinstated for convicted B.C. killer and rapist - "A man who violently sexually assaulted two women, killing one and leaving the other for dead four decades ago has had his day parole reinstated. Kelly James Toop, 64, was granted day parole in June but had his release privileges suspended in October after a halfway house staffer accused him of following and photographing a woman and allegations he made sexual comments to women in a class he was taking. His case managers subsequently found pornography websites open on his phone, a violation of his release conditions. Toop is serving a life sentence for the 1980 first-degree murder of Suzanne Seto, a 29-year-old real estate worker. Toop broke into her Duncan hotel room, sexually assaulted her for hours, then took her to a wooded area where he dropped a cement block on her head. He is also serving a concurrent life sentence for sexual assault and attempted murder of another woman in Williams Lake who had given him a ride in her vehicle. Toop beat her, sexually assaulted her for hours, then hit her in the head with a tire iron and left her for dead. She survived, and during the subsequent investigation, police tied Toop to Seto’s murder as well. He was granted day parole in June, after officials reported “measurable and observable behavioural changes” that could reduce his risk, and released into a halfway house... With regards to the woman he allegedly photographed, the board concluded, “the photograph seems to be a screen capture of a video” he recorded near the halfway house, which he subsequently deleted because he didn’t remember why he took it. “You related that you did not follow or photograph a woman who was walking near the (halfway house). You added that you take pictures and as you have bad eyesight, including glaucoma, you do have a tendency of turning your camera at different angles and positions as a corrective measure,” it stated."
Peel Region's 'Porsche Girl' now faces car theft charges in Toronto - "Three alleged car theft attempts. One man allegedly run over when his stolen Porsche reversed out of his driveway. Bail ordered by two justices of the peace. Police say September has been a busy month for this 18-year-old Brampton woman. This is Ontario justice where mischief charges can land a woman in jail for 49 days of pre-trial custody for political protest while an accused facing multiple charges — including auto theft and operating an automobile causing bodily harm — serves just three days in jail before receiving bail. In this case, Sarah Badshaw didn’t just get bail once. She got it twice — in just two days.
Another example of anarcho-tyranny, where the regime's political enemies are mercilessly crushed while real criminals are allowed to wreak havoc
Trudeau judge abuses Charter to free man busted with a loaded Glock - "To justify an arrest, an officer must have reasonable grounds to do so, supported by sufficient evidence that causes them to believe an offence has been committed. The basis for Khan’s arrest was the pill bottle, which the officer believed had been tampered with. And, fair enough. Canadian police seize bottles with scratched labels in busts all the time. In Sooke, B.C., in Grande Prairie, Alta., in Barrie, Ont., London, Ont., in Corner Brook, N.L. — to name a few cases. But it turned out the label in this case wasn’t scratched (though it was weathered), and its lidless quality with plastic sticking out the top wasn’t enough to satisfy the judge, who also thought the arresting officer didn’t have the training or experience to identify a suspicious bottle. The cocaine baggie, in the judge’s view, was the only item that, if spotted, would have warranted a lawful arrest — but he didn’t believe that the officer could have seen it inside the bottle from his angle. No reasonable grounds were secured, which meant that all evidence stemming from the arrest — the gun, the drugs — was obtained illegally. This wasn’t necessarily fatal to the case: judges have the option of allowing evidence borne from a Charter violation into trial if society’s interest in the prosecution is great enough. Heck, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2010 that unlawfully beating a non-compliant intoxicated driver to the point of breaking his ribs and puncturing a lung isn’t enough to get evidence tossed out. However, Jugnauth found the police misconduct to be “serious,” and the breach of Khan’s rights to be on the extreme end of the state-intrusion spectrum. These factors were so heavy, in the judge’s view, they outweighed the concealed loaded handgun that posed an objective danger to society — and, in particular, the officers, had the traffic stop gone another way... It’s not a major case, nor a bloody one, but it’s a decent demonstration of just how hard it is to manage public safety in Canada: even if a person is caught with a loaded gun strapped to the chest with illegal drugs semi-visible below the dash, that’s no guarantee they’ll be held to account for it."
Time to regulate legal gun owners even more tightly to keep society safe!
Judge rejects Crown's 'unhinged' 120-day sentence for disarming a cop - "An Ontario judge has more than doubled the “unhinged” recommended sentence for a man whose string of crimes includes trying to disarm a police officer. Lawyers for both the Crown and Martin Moore recommended in the Ontario Court of Justice that he get 120 days in jail for breaking into a home in Barrie last July, and attempting to take a taser from the police officer who responded. Moore, 34, was being sentenced at the same time for fraud for using someone else’s bank card to buy gift cards on Dec. 29, 2024, and punching a police officer on Jan. 6 who responded to a call of a man standing in the middle of an intersection impeding traffic. “With respect, I find that the joint submission is so ‘unhinged from the circumstances of the offence and the offender that its acceptance would lead reasonable and informed persons, aware of all the relevant circumstances, including the importance of promoting certainty in resolution discussions, to believe that the proper functioning of the justice system had broken down,'” Justice Angela L. McLeod wrote in a recent decision. “The sentencing submissions were brief and a joint position was proffered,” said the judge. “No case law was submitted in support of the joint position. The primary submission was that the court should accept the joint position, without question.” Instead, McLeod sentenced Moore to 300 days in jail... On April 14, 2024, Martin entered into a formal agreement in front of a judge known as a recognizance to resolve a charge of assault with a weapon, said the decision. “The statutory terms including a requirement that he keep the peace and be of good behaviour were in place for 12 months.” Four months later, on July 14, 2024, “a good citizen called his neighbour who was at work in Toronto to advise him that someone had broken into his home next door,” McLeod said in her decision, dated April 7... “Police arrived and spoke with Mr. Moore who falsely identified himself as Joseph Smith,” said the judge. “After some time, he admitted that he was in fact Martin Moore. Police learned that Martin Moore was wanted on a warrant for an allegation of an assault with a weapon and was on the … recognizance for an offence of assault with a weapon.” Police told Moore he was under arrest. “A struggle ensued and Mr. Moore attempted to disarm the officer. The officer was fearful that he would grab his taser and it would be used against him,” McLeod said. “Mr. Moore was eventually taken to the ground.” Moore’s efforts to disarm the cop “put himself, the officer, the homeowner and the neighbourhood at risk for harm,” said the judge... on Jan. 6, “concerned citizens called to report that a man was standing in the middle of an intersection and impeding traffic. Police arrived on scene and the man told police that his name was Jack. Police identified the man as Mr. Moore and noted that he was wanted on a warrant for aggravated assault,” McLeod said. “Police attempted to arrest him, but he attempted to run. He then punched the officer in the side of the head with a closed fist. A physical struggle ensued, in the middle of the intersection. Two citizens became involved to assist the officer until back up arrived.”"
