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these car jackings are getting out of hand and cops ain't doing anything
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billio dollar police budget and they can't put a dent into this racket
Two armed men stole SUV from Brampton driveway: police
An SUV was stolen from a driveway in Brampton Thursday evening by two armed men, Peel police said.
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Man pistol-whipped in one of six carjackings overnight in the GTA
Police are investigating a string of carjackings that occurred overnight in the Greater Toronto Area, including one incident where a man was pistol-whipped.
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billio dollar police budget and they can't put a dent into this racket
Ya got it on monday
Thank god
John Tory going to write more letterthese car jackings are getting out of hand and cops ain't doing anything
Two armed men stole SUV from Brampton driveway: police
An SUV was stolen from a driveway in Brampton Thursday evening by two armed men, Peel police said.
Man pistol-whipped in one of six carjackings overnight in the GTA
Police are investigating a string of carjackings that occurred overnight in the Greater Toronto Area, including one incident where a man was pistol-whipped.
billio dollar police budget and they can't put a dent into this racket
Either way this country loves criminals
Greed
They don’t wanna pay airport staff and they don’t wanna hire ..it’s all about greed
Same thing with passport canada
There’s like the 2 agents at each office due to covid
We at the bottom off all G7 countries
Service Ontario all these other essential offices slow cause Canada still in 2020 using Covid as excuse
yup
like why would anyone want to do security etc. at the airport you get paid like 20 a hour to deal with crummy people. I'd rather work at walmart ft and supplemet with uber eats than to work for that stressful salary. Those roles should be like 28 a hour.
glad my passport expires in 2026, i'll renew a year early though
For Pamela Bent, Canada Day weekend 2018 saw the end of the life she knew with the son she loved.
She sobbed as she took the witness stand in front of her son’s killer on Friday morning at a University Avenue courtroom not far from the shocking, daylight shooting outside a club on Queen Street West. That summer day, both her 21-year-old son Jahvante Smart — more commonly known as up-and-coming Regent Park rapper Smoke Dawg, “Smokey” to his family — and hip-hop brand manager Ernest Modekwe, 28, or Koba Prime, were shot dead.
“My justice is bringing my son back to me and that will never happen,” said Bent, reading her victim impact statement.
“Instead, I got a life sentence.”
The sentencing of Abdulkadir Handule, the now 26-year-old who was convicted by a jury earlier this year of two counts of second-degree murder, showed the tsunami effect these shootings can have on families and the community, even years later, and the lack of closure for all involved.
Sitting in the courtroom, wearing a black Puma-branded hoodie and surgical mask, Handule faced two life sentences and the words of his victims’ families as his own family awaited news of how long they will lose him to the prison system before he is eligible for parole.
A judge will release a decision on sentencing on July 21.
Handule’s lawyer, Dirk Derstine, said Friday that eligibility for parole after 15 years would be appropriate for a man who, 21 years old at the time of the shooting caught on surveillance cameras, had no prior criminal record and who grew up marginalized in the Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue neighbourhood where he himself had been shot at in the past.
Derstine went further, saying that even though the jury did not accept his argument that the shooting was provoked, the facts still showed Smart began firing first, emptying the clip of his gun.
“It would not take much of a twist of fate for the accused before the court to be dead and for Mr. Smart to be before Your Honour in similar circumstances,” Derstine told Superior Court Justice Brian O’Marra, who will decide Handule’s fate.
If circumstances had been different, Derstine said, “the grief of Ms. Handule would be palpable too.”
During the trial, Crown prosecutors did not dispute Smart fired first, but said it followed “three minutes and 41 seconds of Mr. Handule taunting, gesturing, making threats and throwing an object at Mr. Smart and then reaching for his own gun.”
The family that spoke of Smart on Friday didn’t focus on his burgeoning music career, buoyed by support from top Toronto artist Drake (Aubrey Graham), but on the “life of the party” they lost and the moments he missed out on, like taking his young daughter to her first day of school.
“The day you killed my child, you killed me too,” his mother, Bent, told the court. “The only difference is, I’m still on Earth, suffering, because of you.”
Modekwe’s parents, whose statements were read by a Crown attorney in court on Friday, spoke of lasting stress-induced illness, depression and other torment after the shooting that his father Okwii Modekwe said “blew gaping holes through our hearts.”
The ambitious University of Toronto graduate, also known as “Kosi,” was described as the biggest supporter of his younger, autistic brother and loved and respected by those who knew him.
“I have felt like I have been in prison myself,” his mother Thessy Modekwe’s statement read.
“I am barely able to make it through the day without feeling like I am drowning.”
Derstine, quoting from statements from Handule’s own mother and other family members, described what they called a “caring and loving” young man for whom the shooting was “out of character.”
“It would be easy to look at these offences and say this is a very bad man” and to denounce him, Derstine said.
“I’m here to say, I suppose, that every person is better than the worst thing they’ve ever done in their life.”
Crown prosecutor Anna Tenhouse said Friday there’s no doubt from the letters submitted that Handule was well-loved, but said the court had heard few details about any remorse on Handule’s part or efforts to rehabilitate himself during more than 1,000 days in jail.
Tenhouse reminded the judge that not only did two people lose their lives and but also of the public nature of the shooting — a woman was shot in the leg, strollers and bystanders crowded the sidewalk outside the club — as she argued for Handule to not be eligible for parole for 20 years.
Speaking on his own behalf Friday, Handule said he regretted the deaths of both men and how he wished he could take it back.
“I hope that Your Honour can find it in your heart that I am more than what I did that day,” he said.
That decision will now be up to the judge.
For Pamela Bent, Canada Day weekend 2018 saw the end of the life she knew with the son she loved.
She sobbed as she took the witness stand in front of her son’s killer on Friday morning at a University Avenue courtroom not far from the shocking, daylight shooting outside a club on Queen Street West. That summer day, both her 21-year-old son Jahvante Smart — more commonly known as up-and-coming Regent Park rapper Smoke Dawg, “Smokey” to his family — and hip-hop brand manager Ernest Modekwe, 28, or Koba Prime, were shot dead.
“My justice is bringing my son back to me and that will never happen,” said Bent, reading her victim impact statement.
“Instead, I got a life sentence.”
The sentencing of Abdulkadir Handule, the now 26-year-old who was convicted by a jury earlier this year of two counts of second-degree murder, showed the tsunami effect these shootings can have on families and the community, even years later, and the lack of closure for all involved.
Sitting in the courtroom, wearing a black Puma-branded hoodie and surgical mask, Handule faced two life sentences and the words of his victims’ families as his own family awaited news of how long they will lose him to the prison system before he is eligible for parole.
A judge will release a decision on sentencing on July 21.
Handule’s lawyer, Dirk Derstine, said Friday that eligibility for parole after 15 years would be appropriate for a man who, 21 years old at the time of the shooting caught on surveillance cameras, had no prior criminal record and who grew up marginalized in the Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue neighbourhood where he himself had been shot at in the past.
Derstine went further, saying that even though the jury did not accept his argument that the shooting was provoked, the facts still showed Smart began firing first, emptying the clip of his gun.
“It would not take much of a twist of fate for the accused before the court to be dead and for Mr. Smart to be before Your Honour in similar circumstances,” Derstine told Superior Court Justice Brian O’Marra, who will decide Handule’s fate.
If circumstances had been different, Derstine said, “the grief of Ms. Handule would be palpable too.”
During the trial, Crown prosecutors did not dispute Smart fired first, but said it followed “three minutes and 41 seconds of Mr. Handule taunting, gesturing, making threats and throwing an object at Mr. Smart and then reaching for his own gun.”
The family that spoke of Smart on Friday didn’t focus on his burgeoning music career, buoyed by support from top Toronto artist Drake (Aubrey Graham), but on the “life of the party” they lost and the moments he missed out on, like taking his young daughter to her first day of school.
“The day you killed my child, you killed me too,” his mother, Bent, told the court. “The only difference is, I’m still on Earth, suffering, because of you.”
Modekwe’s parents, whose statements were read by a Crown attorney in court on Friday, spoke of lasting stress-induced illness, depression and other torment after the shooting that his father Okwii Modekwe said “blew gaping holes through our hearts.”
The ambitious University of Toronto graduate, also known as “Kosi,” was described as the biggest supporter of his younger, autistic brother and loved and respected by those who knew him.
“I have felt like I have been in prison myself,” his mother Thessy Modekwe’s statement read.
“I am barely able to make it through the day without feeling like I am drowning.”
Derstine, quoting from statements from Handule’s own mother and other family members, described what they called a “caring and loving” young man for whom the shooting was “out of character.”
“It would be easy to look at these offences and say this is a very bad man” and to denounce him, Derstine said.
“I’m here to say, I suppose, that every person is better than the worst thing they’ve ever done in their life.”
Crown prosecutor Anna Tenhouse said Friday there’s no doubt from the letters submitted that Handule was well-loved, but said the court had heard few details about any remorse on Handule’s part or efforts to rehabilitate himself during more than 1,000 days in jail.
Tenhouse reminded the judge that not only did two people lose their lives and but also of the public nature of the shooting — a woman was shot in the leg, strollers and bystanders crowded the sidewalk outside the club — as she argued for Handule to not be eligible for parole for 20 years.
Speaking on his own behalf Friday, Handule said he regretted the deaths of both men and how he wished he could take it back.
“I hope that Your Honour can find it in your heart that I am more than what I did that day,” he said.
That decision will now be up to the judge.
Naah kill two ppl
No parol
Let him die in jail
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Coworker came back from Mexico last week. He said it took him 3hrs to get out the airport
He had his 3 little kids with him
That's crazy. Maybe it depends on the time of day you arrive.
I had no issues going through YYZ.
exactly, and honestly if he was truly remorseful, he'd tell his set & everyone affiliated to stop crackin' jokes about Smokey's death all over social media & in thier music.....
and I guarantee if by some miracle if he had ended up being found not guilty, he'd be up to the same bs he was up to before going in....
He was going to kill either smoke dog or another youth
Thank god Justice caught up
A Punjabi rapper with ties to Toronto has been killed in India, according to multiple reports.
Sidhu Moose Wala was shot to death in the state of Punjab on Sunday.
No suspect information has been confirmed.
The 28-year-old attended Humber College as an international student and recorded many of his music videos in Toronto.
Wala ran for congress in Punjab earlier this year but was defeated.
His killing comes a day after his security detail was withdrawn from police after the government voted to remove security cover for Punjab politicians to crack down on VIP culture, according to reports.
Community activist Parminder Singh said Wala’s death is a tragic loss for the Punjab community.
“It’s truly shocking and I feel the entire community has that feeling and we all have that sense of shock when we heard about this news early this morning,” he told CP24.
Wala was scheduled to perform in Mississauga at the end of July.
This is a developing news story.
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