What's A Little Crime?

Canada is a country where committing a crime really does pay:

Organized crime is active in Canadian ports, says an RCMP report. Police have sought new powers to conduct mandatory background checks on all port workers including federal Customs agents: “We need to take a hard look at the security of our ports.”

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Thousands of opiate pills obtained by prescription through a “safe supply” harm reduction program have been seized by police in Prince George, B.C., after they were found to have been diverted to organized crime groups reselling them across Canada, the RCMP said.

“Organized crime groups are actively involved in the redistribution of safe supply and prescription drugs,” said Corp. Jennifer Cooper of the RCMP’s Prince George detachment.

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“Many of the pills that were seized had been prescribed to specific individuals but were found all collected together, no longer belonging to those individuals,” she added. “It might mean how we regulate our safe supply might need a sober second glance.”

She said the issue has emerged in recent months.

“What we have seen in Prince George is people taking prescribed medication, some of which is dedicated as safe supply prescription drugs, and selling them to organized crime groups in exchange for more potent illicit drugs. The organized crime groups are then taking the prescription drugs and selling them inter-provincially across Canada.”

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The federal “safe supply” drug policy is senseless and destructive, says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. Speaking in Vancouver, Poilievre told business owners that cabinet must “break the cycle of addiction that is raging out of control in our country.”

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A coalition of MPs from the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois have announced they will be staging an “emergency meeting” to probe why two of Canada’s most notorious killers now live at an open-campus prison equipped with a hockey rink, a wood shop and a billiards table.

In just the last year, cannibal murderer Luka Magnotta and serial killer Paul Bernardo were both quietly transferred to La Macaza Institution, a medium security prison in rural Quebec.

This prompted Conservative MP Frank Caputo to pay an official visit to La Macaza, where he reported encountering a “university campus” complete with an outdoor rink that transforms into a tennis court in the summer.

“Canada’s most horrific murderers are living better than most Canadians,” said Caputo in a widely circulated video.

 

How odd:

A family slain in a stabbing rampage at an Ottawa home late Wednesday threw a birthday party for the alleged suspect just days ago, says a religious leader who knew them.

The father who survived the attack in which his wife and four children were killed was in “great shock” on Thursday, said Bhante Suneetha.

The resident monk at Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery, which the family attended, said he visited his friend at the hospital.

The father told Suneetha that nothing seemed “wrong” in the lead-up to the attack in which a student living with the family is accused, the monk said.

“They (even) helped him to celebrate,” he told The Canadian Press in an interview. “They organized a celebration of his 19th birthday last week, a few days ago.”

Police were called to the scene of a suburban home in the Barrhaven neighbourhood Wednesday night, where they discovered the bodies of a mother, her four young children and a family friend in the aftermath of a vicious attack.