The early years of the pandemic were very healthy ones for organized criminals who specialized in financial crimes, according to a government report obtained under Access to Information Act.

Domenico Cugliari, formerly of the GTA, was deported to Italy over allegations of ties to ‘Ndrangheta, the Mafia strain from Calabria. He was in Canada for three years.

It was fun doing this podcast with Raju Mudhar of The Toronto Star’s This Matters on Robby Alkhalil of the Wolfpack Alliance.

The fate of Matthew Dupre, a Canadian Forces veteran and alleged underworld hitman, is now in the hands of the federal justice minister. Dupre says he wants to be sent from a Canadian jail to Thailand to face charges he helped carry out the underworld of a gangster who was deported from Canada.

Matthew Dupre is now in a Canadian jail, where he denies he’s a killer-for-hire for the Wolfpack Alliance. His lawyer says the Canadian Forces veteran wants to be sent to Thailand to face murder charges – even if it means risking a death sentence.

Twice-convicted murderer Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil remains atop Canada’s list of most wanted criminals. He walked out of a detention centre last summer, disguised as a work man.

GTA threatened with wave of cheap heroin as poppy production increases dramatically in Southeast Asian’s Golden Triangle.

A key figure in Canada’s Rizzuto crime family was tied to crime family of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most-wanted Mafia godfather.

Const. Greg Pierzchala wanted to be a police officer since he was five years old. He earned his dream, only to be murdered on the day he became a full member of the Ontario Provincial Police.

My Christmas memories include a communal hockey stick, curved the wrong way.