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According to the latest report of Statistics Canada, overall crime in Canada has been steadily declining since the late 1990s as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI) and the Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI), with a more recent uptick since an all-time low in 2014. [3] Both measures of crime saw an 8% to 10% decrease between 2010 and ...
Dömötör-Kolompár criminal organization – Hungarian crime family that ran a human trafficking syndicate, lasting until 2010. Dubois Brothers – French-Canadian crime group in Montreal that was active up until the 1980s. Heritage Front – Canadian neo-Nazi [222] white supremacist organization founded in 1989 and disbanded around 2005. [223]
Law and crime. Censorship in Iraq. The Iraqi Ministry of Communications blocks access to the IMDb website, citing concerns of "immoral content". (Intellinews) (Shafaq News) LGBT rights in Hong Kong. Chief justice Andrew Cheung of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal rules to uphold housing and inheritance rights for same-sex couples in the city.
Law and crime. Protesters set fire to government buildings and dozens of vehicles in the Mexican state of Guerrero amid anger over the police killing of a college student in March and the kidnapping of 43 students in 2014. Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda's office in Chilpancingo is ransacked. Science and technology. Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
April 12 – Canada pledges $132.2 million to Sudan to help people affected by the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis. [39] April 15 – The 2024 Fogo Island-Cape Freels provincial by-election is held, won by Progressive Conservative candidate Jim McKenna. [40] April 28 – A cyber attack forces a temporary shutdown of operations at London ...
A Canadian woman was arrested after trying to smuggle over 20 pounds of methamphetamine through a New Zealand airport, authorities said. The illicit drugs were disguised as Christmas presents, New ...
On March 6, 2024, the Wickramasinghe family, Sri Lankan immigrants, were fatally stabbed inside of their house in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Four children were killed, along with their mother and a male family friend. Their father was injured. It was the worst mass killing in the city's recent history. [1]
2024 Pacific typhoon season. The death toll from the flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to at least 126. Nineteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes on a highway in Zacatecas, Mexico, while heading from Nayarit to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Law and crime