There are few nicer, or braver, journalists than my old colleague, Tony Wong. Who else would end up as a pallbearer after gang leader Asau Tran was gunned down and his friends went into hiding?

Coke trafficker Jarrod Bacon, 37, has been released from prison. He’s with the Red Scopions, who are key in the Wolfpack Alliance.

Convicted ‘Ndrangheta boss Giuseppe (Pino) Ursino refused a COVID-19 vaccination, despite the arguments of medical personnel. Then he argued that he should get parole because of COVID-19 dangers.

Enjoyed being interviewed on this Canadaland.com podcast on politics and violence in the tow truck industry.

He was stabbed and slashed to death in a landmark building on the University of Toronto campus, when it was full of students and staff. Why did no one notice the murder of popular art professor David Buller?

A GTA tow truck operator has denied all responsibility after Peter Petrov Simov, a 19-year-old security guard and aspiring pilot, wasshot to death with illegal handgun. The tow truck operator’s also facing unrelated criminal charges related to towing industry.

Two Ontario Provincial Police officers – including an inspector – have been charged with towing industry corruption offenses. That makes a half dozen facing criminal charges in the GTA and the multiple investigators aren’t over.

Project Sindicato was hailed as the biggest anti-Mafia probe in York Region history. Now, it has been tossed out of court amidst allegations police illegally monitored suspects with their lawyers.

William McIntryre was part of a small, elite police unit called The Sultans who worked undercover against outlaw bikeers. And then someone put a bullet between his eyes.

Mafia boss Vincenzo Macri, 56, has had his 20-year Italian prison sentence cut by five years. His trial heard that he declined to call off thee 2014 mob killing of Carmine Verduci in Woodbridge in 2014.