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The first organized crime case that attracted widespread public attention was the beating of the gambler Maxie Bluestein by the gangster Johnny Papalia at Toronto's Town Tavern on 21 March 1961. [91] Pierre Berton , a Toronto Star newspaper columnist wrote in his column that the Bluestein beating was a "semi-execution" committed in front of ...
Building Resilience Against Terrorism" (2013) [3] is Canada's first counterterrorism strategy, which aims to counter domestic and international terrorism so to protect Canada, Canadians, and Canadian interests. The strategy "assesses the nature and scale of the threat, and "sets out basic principles and elements that underpin the Government's ...
Crime rates in Canada were reported at 5,334 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants with violent crime at 1,098 incidents and property crime at 3,245 incidents (per 100,000). [5] The province or territory with the lowest crime rate in 2017 was Quebec with 3,359 incidents per 100,000 followed by Ontario with 3,804 incidents per 100,000.
Popeyes Motorcycle Club – Notorious Québécois biker gang that eventually became absorbed by the Hells Angels in 1977 becoming its first chapter in Canada. Rebels Motorcycle Club (Canada) – Western Canada -based biker gang active from 1968 until 2004 with a majority of their chapters patching over to the Hell's Angels in 1998.
Gazit Group (now Gazit-Globe) was a significant shareholder in First Capital up until March 2020. [4] As of 2003, First Capital had 81 properties, after spinning off its American properties and acquiring 18 properties during the year. [5] In 2011, First Capital Realty bought Hazelton Lanes, a shopping centre in Yorkville, Toronto, for $110 ...
The Just Desserts shooting was a notable crime that occurred in Toronto on the evening of Tuesday, April 5, 1994. Just after 11:00 PM, a group of three men barged into the Just Desserts Café, a popular café on Davenport Road in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood. [1] One of the men was armed with a shotgun. The armed robbers ordered the thirty ...
A 2012 poll by the Toronto Sun found that 66 percent of Canadians favoured capital punishment, but only 41 percent would actually support its re-introduction in Canada. [47] A 2020 poll by Research Co. found that 51 percent of Canadians are in favour of reinstating the death penalty for murder in their country.
The Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC; French: Centre intégré d'évaluation du terrorisme) is an independent federal organization tasked with assessing threats of terrorism to Canada and Canadian interests abroad. It is the only federal organization with the specific responsibility of analyzing terrorism threats related to Canada.