Theft
Brymo Accuses Burna Boy of Stealing His Intellectual Property
Maverick singer, Ọlawale Ọlọfọrọ, popularly known as Brymo, has accused Grammy-winning musician, Burna Boy of stealing his intellectual property. The ‘Ara’ crooner alleged...
Hannah Montana Star Mitchel Musso’s Miserable Mugshot Reveals Unrecognizable Appearance
Former “Hannah Montana” star, Mitchel Musso, found himself in hot water once again as he was recently arrested in Rockwell, Texas. The 32-year-old...
The Unsaid Reason Mama June Shannon Was Arrested
Before “Toddlers & Tiaras,” Mama June Shannon had some legal trouble. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Mama June said the 2008 arrest was...
Instructions for outfitting an RCMP car were left on federal website after Nova Scotia attacks in 2020
More than a year after a gunman’s lookalike RCMP car helped him move through Nova Scotia undetected and kill 22 people, federal officials...
Tree poaching on Vancouver Island prompts spike in forest patrols
The municipality of North Cowichan is stepping up patrols of the region’s forest reserve, after an increase in timber theft in the area,...
Toronto mom spent her severance pay on car insurance, but ended up uninsured
Yasmine Sharaf thought she had scored a great deal on car insurance. The 48-year-old Toronto mother of three needed a lucky break; she had been...
Mental health charity reeling amid resignations over suspicions about leader’s alleged secret identity
An Ottawa charity focused on the well-being of Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ youth is in disarray after staff quit and speakers pulled out...
Ford recalls more than 8,500 vehicles in Canada over airbags that can explode, hurl shrapnel
Ford said it will recall about 8,800 vehicles in Canada after the automaker lost track of some older Takata airbags that can explode...
The retail sector has a racial bias problem — and this Sephora survey suggests it’s costing it customers
A study commissioned by beauty giant Sephora on racial bias in the U.S. retail sector is having reverberations in Canada — at Sephora’s Canadian...
Appalling incidents like the Keyon Harrold Jr. case happen to Black kids here too
This column is an opinion by Phillip Dwight Morgan, a Toronto-based freelance writer of Jamaican heritage. He is a director of the Conn Smythe...
‘Sidekick’ pet goat missing for 3rd time from southern Alberta home
Tinkerbell is a lot like a shadow — wherever her family goes, the little goat follows. But the Nigerian dwarf and Lamancha cross...
How a criminal charge laid in Calgary was linked to a Toronto woman who’s never been there
Joyce Obaseki has never been to Calgary and she’s never been charged with a crime. So she was floored when Toronto police contacted...
Sports groups defrauded by their own members face uphill battle in rebuilding community trust
Whenever an organization is the victim of theft, the impact can be deep and long lasting. When money is stolen by an employee...
Canadian youth sports groups are losing millions of dollars to fraud and theft
For the Corner Brook Minor Hockey Association, it was like being on the receiving end of an open-ice body check. It was in...
Trudeau says anti-black racism is alive in Canada and ‘we need to be better’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed today to do more to end anti-black racism in Canada after days of massive street protests in U.S. and...
Organized crime suspected of being behind COVID-19 phishing and counterfeit-equipment scams
Organized criminal groups are adapting their illegal operations to the COVID-19 pandemic, preying on people’s fears and vulnerabilities — and successfully scamming Canadians,...
