One man is dead and two others were hurt after a shooting at a college bar in Sarnia, Ont., overnight Friday.
Sarnia police officers were called to the bar at Lambton College at 12:52 a.m. Friday for reports of a shooting. When they arrived, officers found three people suffering from injuries they described as both life-and-non-life-threatening.
A 20-year-old Sarnia man was taken to Bluewater Health in serious condition; he later died in hospital.
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Police said no one was in custody as of 4 a.m., and that the investigation is ongoing.
Lambton College said in a post on Facebook its Sarnia campus is closed for the day.
“Lambton College is deeply saddened to share that an individual has died following a shooting early this morning during a Student Administrative Council event on the Sarnia Main Campus. Two other individuals sustained non-life-threatening injuries,” the school said.
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“This loss is a profound tragedy. We extend our deepest condolences to the individual’s family, loved ones and friends and to everyone affected by this staggering loss. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by this senseless act of violence.”
Support is being provided to members of the Lambton College community through counselling and wellness and the employee and family assistance plan, the school added.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Two suspects remain on the run nearly three years after the infamous gold heist at Toronto Pearson International Airport, police say.
To date, nine individuals have been charged or are wanted, and more than 21 charges have been laid after more than $20 million in gold and $2.5 million in cash was stolen from Pearson in April 2023.
A Peel Regional Police spokesperson told Global News in an email Thursday that 33-year-old Simran Preet Panesar and 36-year-old Prasath Paramalingam are still wanted.
Panesar, a former Air Canada employee who is believed to be in India, is wanted on charges of theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. Paramalingam, a Brampton, Ont., resident, is wanted on a bench warrant after failing to appear in court on Aug. 19, 2024.
Police arrested the majority of the suspects a year after the heist unfolded. Arsalan Chaudhary, 44, who was arrested this January at Pearson after arriving on a flight from Dubai, was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday and ordered to repay $22 million.
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The April 17, 2023, heist, which made international headlines at the time, involved 6,600 gold bars and cash stolen from Pearson.
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The gold and currency were ordered from a refinery in Zurich, Switzerland, and were transported in a container through an Air Canada flight that landed in Toronto.
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That flight landed at 3:56 p.m. The cargo was then offloaded from the plane to an Air Canada cargo facility at 6:32 p.m.
Police alleged a suspect arrived at the facility with a “fraudulent airway bill” and gave it to an attendant.
A short time later, a forklift arrived with a container of gold and foreign currency, which was loaded into the rear of the suspect’s truck.
At around 9:30 p.m., Brink’s Canada employees went to the Air Canada cargo site to pick up the shipment of gold and currency. Police were contacted the following day and an investigation was launched.
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Video surveillance obtained by officers showed that the truck drove west into Halton Region to the north of Milton, Ont. That region is more rural, and eventually the truck was lost.
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On April 17, 2024, police announced that 37 search warrants were issued, along with 70 production orders. Officers seized $430,000 in Canadian currency during the search warrants.
Also seized were six crudely made gold bracelets resembling bangles that were sent off for expert examination. They were pure gold and the total value was more than $89,000.
In addition, officers seized smelting pots, casts and moulds. The truck allegedly used to steal the gold and cash was also seized by police.
The investigation into the theft remains ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Ontario Provincial Police say officers are looking for “multiple people” accused of climbing the boards at a hockey rink, taking their shirts off and breaking the glass.
OPP said that on March 26, a hockey team was playing a game at the Muskoka Lumber Community Centre in Bracebridge when a group of youth and young adult fans climbed the boards between 9:30 and 10 p.m.
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When they were reportedly atop the boards, they apparently rocked the glass until it broke. Some involved reportedly pulled off their shirts and were waving them around in the air.
“The conduct of this group of spectators was unacceptable and caused significant damage to the glass and supports,” police said in a news release.
“Multiple people were recording this incident, and police are aware that many of those videos are circulating online.”
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The OPP did not provide a description of the individuals they’re looking for.
An investigation is underway.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Police have put up a billboard outside an Ontario town in a bid to crack a now two-year-old homicide investigation.
Ontario Provincial Police said Monday that it installed the billboard on County Road 9 facing southwest at County Road 11, just west of Orangeville, as the anniversary of David Robson’s death arrives.
Robson, 65, was found dead on April 1, 2024, around Chinguacousy Road and King Street in the Town of Caledon. A post-mortem examination conducted a day later determined his cause of death was homicide.
Robson, a resident of Melancthon, Ont., had been reported missing on March 21 that year.
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His vehicle, a 2017 black Kia Sportage with Ontario licence plate DAMZ 252, has never been found.
“Investigators are urging anyone with information about the whereabouts of the vehicle to contact police to support the ongoing investigation,” police said in the release.
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The billboard police have installed features a stock picture of the vehicle and Robson’s photo.
“We hope the billboard prompts anyone passing through the area to recall some information about David Robson or the location of his vehicle,” Det.-Insp. Mark Allison said.
“We want to understand what happened to David and provide the answers his loved ones have been waiting for over the past two years.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
An OPP billboard is shown in this undated handout photo. OPP are renewing pleas in the case of David Robson, whose body was found on April 1, 2024 in Caledon.
A Brampton, Ont., man may spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking up to US$17 million worth of meth and cocaine into Canada.
The FBI in Los Angeles says 62-year-old Guramrit Sidhu pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.
He now faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The FBI said in a news release Thursday that Sidhu was the lead defendant in a 23-count January 2024 federal indictment targeting a drug trafficking organization. He has been in federal custody since October 2024 after being extradited from Canada.
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According to his plea agreement, between September 2020 and February 2023, he led an organization responsible for trafficking drugs into Canada from the U.S.
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From Sept. 13, 2022, to Oct.24, 2022, Sidhu orchestrated the distribution of eight separate drug loads, totalling approximately 523 kilograms of methamphetamine and 347 kilograms of cocaine.
Authorities seized those loads, and estimated a wholesale value of approximately US$15 to US$17 million.
“After buying the bulk quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine in the U.S., Sidhu arranged for the narcotics’ transportation into Canada via long-haul semi-trucks for further distribution,” the FBI said.
“Sidhu provided telephone numbers and serial numbers on bills of currency for couriers to use as a ‘token’ for identification purposes during the delivery and transportation of the cocaine and methamphetamine.”
Sidhu and co-conspirators then retrieved the drugs from locations within Canada for further distribution, the FBI added.
He is the seventh defendant to plead guilty in the case. The others who pleaded guilty have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from 27 months to 108 months, the FBI said.
Sidhu’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 9.
A trial date has been set for an Ontario man facing 12 charges in connection with a fatal May long weekend boat crash two years ago.
Riley Orr, Juliette Cote and Kaila Bearman died on May 18, 2024, after a speedboat collided with a fishing boat on Bobs Lake, which is just north of Kingston.
The collision occurred just after 9:30 p.m. that day. Orr, Cote and Bearman, who were all between the ages of 21 and 23, died at the scene. Five other people, ranging in age from 21 to 44, were injured and taken to hospital.
Recordings of emergency dispatches posted online shortly after the crash revealed a chaotic scene as paramedics, police, and firefighters raced to the area.
“OPP and ambulance are reporting two boats have crashed. They can hear people screaming for help,” a dispatcher from South Frontenac Fire and Rescue said around 9:45 p.m. May 18.
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Around 10:10 p.m., first responders found most of the crash victims wedged together on the boats next to a concrete dock near a few cottages.
Two people were without vital signs, while another was in and out of consciousness, a firefighter told dispatch.
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The crash occurred on a narrow channel that connects Bobs Lake and Buck Bay. Area resident Tony Hammond told Global News at the time that he saw a group of young people listening to music on board a boat, which wasn’t far from its dock, when he heard another boat approaching.
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Everything happened so fast that he said he did not have time to react.
“I was just hoping not to hear the crunch, and then I heard the crunch,” he said.
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“Before any of the actual first responders [arrived], everyone was doing what they could. There’s no way to describe it, except that anyone who ever hears it knows that sound is go time.”
Five months after the collision, Ontario Provincial Police arrested and charged Matthew Splinter of South Frontenac Township.
He was charged with three counts each of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing death, dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, impaired operation causing death and impaired operation causing bodily harm.
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Another South Frontenac Township man was also charged under the Canada Shipping Act with failing to exhibit a stern light on a power-driven vessel underway, failing to exhibit sidelights on a power-driven vessel underway and operating a non-human-powered pleasure craft without a personal flotation device or life-jacket of appropriate size for each person on board.
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The OPP did not release his identity when it announced the charges.
Det. Insp. Marty McConnell told reporters on Oct. 30, 2024 that investigations like these are “very complex.”
“They require a great deal of resources, and tragically, three lives were lost that day and serious injuries,” he said.
“With the resources involved in this, I wanted to ensure that a fulsome and fair investigation was brought forward to the courts.”
He also thanked the community for their actions that night.
“So many local residents and cottagers ran to assist the victims after the collision and offered support afterwards,” he said.
“I also want to thank those that came forward to share information and assist our investigators.”
Splinter’s trial is scheduled to begin on April 5, 2027.
Jennifer Pan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 death of her mother, nearly a year after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new first-degree murder trial for the Markham, Ont., woman in a case that drew international attention and spawned a Netflix documentary.
One of Pan’s lawyers, Breana Vandebeek, confirmed the plea was entered in court on Wednesday.
An agreed statement of facts says that while Pan did plot to kill her father, she didn’t intend to kill her mother – but ought to have known that Bich Ha Pan could be in the family house when the plan was carried out.
Pan was convicted in 2015 of first-degree murder and attempted murder for the attack that left her mother dead and her father, Hann Pan, with a serious head wound.
Her three co-accused – including her former boyfriend – were convicted on the same charges.
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The Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that there should be new first-degree murder trials for all four accused in the case, but affirmed the convictions for attempted murder.
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On Nov. 8, 2010, three armed intruders entered the Pan family home in Markham, north of Toronto, took the parents into the basement and shot both of them. Jennifer Pan was tied to an upstairs banister with a shoelace, and initially considered to be one of the victims of a home invasion.
The Crown successfully argued at trial that Pan, who had a difficult relationship with her parents, arranged for them to be killed.
But Ontario’s Court of Appeal later ordered new trials on the first-degree murder convictions for all accused, saying the trial judge erred by suggesting to the jury only two scenarios for the attack — one in which the plan was to murder both parents, and another in which the plan was to commit a home invasion, in the course of which the parents were shot.
The Appeal Court said the judge should have presented the possible verdicts of second-degree murder and manslaughter to the jury in the death of Pan’s mother.
The Crown appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, which confirmed the order for new first-degree murder trials.
The agreed statement of facts presented in court Wednesday says that while Jennifer Pan did not make a plan to kill her mother, “in light of the arrangements made to kill her father, Ms. Pan knew or ought to have known that Bich Ha Pan could be in the house when the plan was carried out.”
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“In all the circumstances, it was an objectively foreseeable consequence of the unlawful plan to kill Hann Pan that Bich Ha Pan would suffer non-trivial bodily harm,” it says.
The statement of facts says Pan’s relationship with her father had been deteriorating in the months leading up to November 2010 and she “arranged to finance his death,” enlisting her former boyfriend, who helped organize the hit and find accomplices.
The Supreme Court had said in its ruling that Pan regarded her parents, and especially her father, as strict and controlling, and had lied to them about graduating from high school and attending university, among other things.
After pleading guilty to manslaughter on Wednesday, Pan received a life sentence but will now be eligible for parole, her lawyer confirmed.
The case was the subject of a 2024 documentary on Netflix called “What Jennifer Did.”
Brantford police say its officers ran out of paper tickets when they charged 26 drivers trying to get around a collision earlier this week.
Police said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that earlier that day, traffic on Highway 403 was backed up due to a collision.
Officers attended the scene at Garden Avenue, and the force said they found drivers heading down the wrong way on a one-way on-ramp to bypass the traffic.
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Police handed out tickets to 26 drivers: 24 were charged with driving the wrong way on a one-way, two were charged with backing up on an on-ramp and one was charged with driving without a licence.
The force added the fine for driving the wrong way on a one-way street is $110 and three demerit points.
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“In fact, officers handed out so many tickets that they actually ran out of printer paper in the cruiser,” police said in the Facebook post.
“A reminder: if traffic is backed up due to a collision, the safest and fastest option is usually the least exciting one — wait your turn and follow the rules of the road. Driving the wrong way on an on-ramp isn’t a shortcut … it’s a ticket.”
Ontario Provincial Police are joining the hunt for a murder suspect after a woman was stabbed to death while leaving a home earlier this month.
At roughly 9:30 p.m. March 3, police in LaSalle, Ont., were called to a home on Todd Lane, near Malden Road, for reports of an individual in distress.
When officers arrived on scene, they found a woman suffering from multiple stab wounds. She was taken to hospital, where she later died.
Investigators later learned the woman was at the home earlier that evening, and as she was leaving, she was confronted by someone who stabbed her multiple times. Officers believe they then fled in a vehicle that was parked in a laneway on the extension of 10th Street, north of Todd Lane.
They have yet to be found.
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In the days that followed, LaSalle police executed search warrants at the home and the victim’s residence in Windsor. The occupants of the home on Todd Lane are not persons of interest, police said.
OPP said they were asked to help with the probe on Wednesday. Members of the canine unit were brought in earlier to help track the suspect.
The victim has been identified as 45-year-old Nancy Grewal, a Punjabi social-media influencer who had posted videos speaking out against Khalistan extremism.
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The Khalistan movement, which seeks independence for India’s Sikh-majority Punjab region, has been at the heart of high tensions between India and Canada in recent years.
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Relations between India and Canada soured in 2023 when then-prime minister Justin Trudeau said Canadian intelligence agencies had credible evidence linking agents of the Indian government to the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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Nijjar was murdered on June 18, 2023, when two gunmen opened fire on his pickup truck as he was leaving Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh Temple, where he was president.
Narendra Modi’s government had long accused Nijjar of leading what it calls a terrorist group behind attacks in India, although no credible evidence was ever produced. India had repeatedly pressed Canada for his arrest over the years.
India denied any involvement in his murder, and while Prime Minister Mark Carney has worked to smooth relations between the two nations, multiple Sikh leaders in Canada have said they’ve received notice from police their lives could be in imminent danger.
The motive behind Grewal’s slaying is under investigation, LaSalle police Chief Michael Pearce said.
“Investigators are confident this was not a random act of violence. Ms. Grewal’s murder is being investigated as an intentional act against her. All information is being considered,” he said in a statement.
“While we recognize the significant public interest in this case, we will not share information that will compromise the investigation, including leads, tips, and investigative avenues.”
Grewal’s Instagram remains active through joint-author posts, some of which described her as a “beautiful soul” who was “stolen from us.”
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Police are seeking the public’s assistance in obtaining information, dashcam or surveillance video regarding the getaway vehicle between 8:45 and 9:30 p.m. that day.
“This vehicle may have been visible to drivers who travelled northbound on 10th Street towards Todd Lane,” the OPP said in a news release Thursday.
“Investigators are also interested in speaking to anyone that saw any vehicles parked in that laneway in the weeks prior to Tuesday, March 3, 2026.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact the OPP, LaSalle police or Crime Stoppers.
A Hamilton, Ont., man is facing charges in relation to a threat made against Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the second such incident in less than a week.
Ontario Provincial Police’s protective services section (PSS) said they began an investigation on Feb. 22 into a threat made against Ford.
They said as a result of the investigation, 25-year-old Lucas Bauer was arrested and charged with one count of uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death.
According to OPP, the man was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom on April 13.
“Threats are criminal in nature and will not be tolerated. The OPP takes every incident seriously and is committed to investigating these matters, regardless of who is impacted,” said Insp. Anton Jelich in a statement.
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The case is the second to be announced by the OPP in the past week, with a separate arrest of an Allison, Ont., man being reported last Thursday.
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In that case, OPP said the alleged threats dated back to Feb. 13, when members of the PPS began an investigation.
Police said 20-year-old Ramy Jamil Hanna was arrested and charged with one count of uttering threats to cause harm.
Hanna was also released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court on April 9.
Last week, the RCMP also announced charges against a Winnipeg man after he was accused of “targeting” Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Jewish and Muslim communities in posts on X.
The RCMP revealed the charges on March 2, but the investigation began on Jan. 16. They said in a news release that a user on the platform X had posted threats targeting Carney and inciting hatred towards the Jewish and Muslim communities.
The RCMP did not specify what was said, but added that it’s mandated to investigate criminal offences arising from terrorism, espionage, cyberattacks, nuclear security risks and foreign-influenced activities, among others.
Anyone with information regarding the Hamilton case is being asked to contact OPP or Crime Stoppers if they wish to stay anonymous.
