Mobster Rocco Zito was granted a gun permit, even after he shot someone to death in a mob debt collection. Who doesn’t get these things?

Giuseppe (Pino) Ursino of Bradford, near Toronto, convicted in cocaine trafficking case that’s a first of it’s kind for Canada. It’s the first time ‘Ndrangheta targeted as criminal organization since Canada enacted criminal organization laws 21 years ago. Those laws were passed in height of biker wars of Quebec. Now they’re biting mob guys too.

Cool news. The Biker’s Brother has made short-list for Margins Award in the U.S. It’s a librarians’ award for books aimed at at-risk youth. 

Bad Blood TV series starts on Thursday. I feel so fortunate. Great team! Great result! What a birthday present. 

Six men found guilty in the murder plot to kill Bonanno family boss Salvatore Montagna finally sentenced. With time served, several will go free in early 2018. 

What a thrill to read John Doyle’s list of 10 shows that matter for this fall and see “Bad Blood” up there with “Will & Grace,” “Law and Order,” “Alias Grace” and Ken Burns!  Starts airing Sept. 21. 

My friend Donovan spotted a Bad Blood TTC streetcar today on the Dundas line. Show starts September 21, airing every Thursday evening for six weeks.

Paris Christoforou, the former sergeant-at-arms for London, Ont. Hells Angels charter and gambler Mark Peretz survived murder bid outside coffee shop at Sherway Gardens in GTA last week. They both did prison time for bungled gangland hit that left mother-of-three Louise Russo paralyzed from the waist down in 2004.

Sherway Gardens hit attempt comes less than two weeks after another failed murder bid nearby in Oakville.

Things likely to get worse before they get better.

Likely root of things the old online sports book operation once controlled by Vito Rizzuto, Montreal mega-boss who died in December 2013.

Here’s the new cover to Business or Blood. It’s to go with the premier of the 6-part TV series Bad Blood next month on City. It’s the same book inside, with a little update. 

There have been a dozen violent incidents so far this year in Ontario as mobsters fight for top spot in underworld once held by Vito Rizzuto