#Ontario Provincial Police

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"DEAD WOMAN IS NOT IDENTIFIED," Hamilton Spectator. August 29, 1933. Page 7. ---- Died in Hospital Following Motor Accident ---- Thought to Have Been a Resident of Hamilton ---- Simcoe, Ont., Aug. 29. - (CP) - Coroner Dr. E. W. Zumstein, of Delhi, to-day had ordered an inquest into the death of the unidentified woman, thought to be a resident of Hamilton, who died in hospital here Sunday night from injuries suffered in a motor accident. Provincial police were trying to identify her.

The woman was offered a ride by Chester Beaumert and Kados Sigmond, both of Welland, when they noticed her walking beside the highway. Authorities have taken no action against the men who deny any knowledge of her identity. Sigmond suffered slight injuries when the car overturned near Vanessa, but Beaumert, driver of the car, escaped uninjured. The inquest will be held here Friday.

Not Known Here The detective department of the Hamilton police force stated this morning that they had tried in vain to trace any relatives or friends of the woman who was thought to have come from Hamilton. Constable Metcalfe, of the provincial police, declined to make any statement when asked if he had had any success in tracing the woman and her domicile.

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Looking at RCMP spyware and hacking tools 🧰

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S*** LeBrain's Dad Says: Speeding Ticket edition

My dad is back with another classic. Watch and see!

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My Deepest Condolences to the Family of Ontario Provincial Police Officer Pierzchala

OPP Officer Pierzchala would be alive today if our Laws were changed and if these damn judges would be more strict with bails and with sentences. The scumbag who ambushed him was out on bail regarding a weapons offense against peace officers! Yes, go ahead, read that again. There should be NO BAIL for weapon offenses and AUTOMATIC LIFE – NO PAROLE if a weapon is used while committing a…

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Canada is a country of contrasts. Communists tried to take over Montreal in 1970 and assassinated a minister. The communists may have received KGB training and a military crackdown was issued on the city. Over 100 people were arrested.

We don't consider this interesting enough to talk about.

There's two communist parties in the country that are essentially just six guys in Moose Factory or wherever keeping the lights on.

There's a village in Northern Ontario called Moose Factory.

Biker gangs killed over 160 people in Montreal over the course of eight years.

There's a municipality in Newfoundland called Dildo.

An openly separatist provincial party has roughly 9% of the seats in the federal House of Commons and no one thinks this is odd (We're placating the Quebecois so they don't murder a minister again).

Our national animal is a swamp rodent that 85% of the population will never see in person in their entire life.

Police in Saskatoon have been repeatedly charged with lynching indigenous people by driving them away hours from home in the winter and leaving them there to freeze to death. A member of the police department in Saskatoon tried to delete all references to this from Wikipedia several times.

The moose is the most ungainly ridiculous thing you'll ever see. It can weigh half a ton, run 35 miles/hr through snow and water, and attacks more people per year than bears. They may or may not be manufactured in the aforementioned Moose Factory, I can neither confirm nor deny this.

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Todd Cameron Smith, 14, was a student at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta, Canada. During his years at the school, he was bullied tremendously. He was ridiculed for his appearance and mocked for being “pudgey.” One beating left him with a hole in his lip so large he could poke his tongue through it. “When he was truant, he’d be hiding behind the sofa. He was scared to go to school,” said Dr. Clive Chamberlain. On one occasion, he was doused with lighter fluid and threatened to be set on fire.

In mid-1999, Smith’s friend moved away from Taber and Smith’s loneliness and anger exasperated. And then, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine massacre. Smith became fixated. Eight days later, Smith unlocked his stepfather’s gun cabinet, lifted out a .2-calibre rifle and went to his school. He had 350 rounds of live ammunition in his coat pocket and 25 rounds loaded into the gun. Once inside, Smith began to open fire. He shot and killed 16-year-old Jason Lang and seriously wounded another student. He was wrestled to the ground by gym coach, Cheyno Finnie, before he could fire any more rounds.

Following his arrest, the prosecution argued that Smith was obsessed with violence and that he couldn’t generate true remorse for his actions. In a search of the Brookside Youth Centre where he was being held, several pieces of paper were found where smith had wrote: “I’ll rip your arm off and beat you with the wet end, then I’ll feed it to your dog and rape your girlfriend.” A forensic psychiatrist refuted that a pre-existing medical condition - high blood pressure on the brain - may have led to the violent outburst.

Smith was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in 2000. Smith wasn’t publicly identified until 2005 after he escaped from a halfway house in Toronto. Police had to apply to the Ontario provincial youth court with an affidavit in order for the request to be granted. Following the shooting, the father of Jason Lang, Reverend Dale Lang, forgave Smith for his actions. Following the murder of his son, he became a staunch advocate for anti-bullying.

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Ontario provincial law and our policy prohibit gooning in this area.

La loi provinciale de l’Ontario et notre politique interdisent toute activité dans ce domaine.

fuck the police

nîque la police

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Q: What happens when two cops brawl in public, ending with one cop shooting the other ten times?

A: Absolutely nothing.

On Nov. 29, 2018, Donovan and Parker were investigating a car crash at a rural intersection near Niagara Falls, Ont. 

Parker was directing traffic, but left to use the bathroom. When he returned to his post, Donovan confronted him and a fight ensued.

Donovan later testified that Parker pushed and hit him and pulled his baton. When Parker reached for his gun, Donovan drew his own and began firing in self-defence. 

Parker was shot in the cheek, nose, shoulder, thigh, calf, hip, abdomen and foot but survived.

Donovan was initially charged with attempted murder and assault, as recommended by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the police watchdog that investigated the incident. 

But as evidence mounted that Donovan was acting in self-defence and there wasn't a reasonable prospect of conviction, the Crown decided to withdraw the charges.

Parker was then charged for assaulting Donovan with a weapon.

Parker's trial, held over several days in 2021, centred on Donovan testifying about the fight. 

But the trial stalled when it came to light that Donovan was in possession of a USB stick containing evidence from the SIU's initial investigation, although he denied reviewing many of the documents. 

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called in to do a forensic examination.  

They found Donovan had seen "key evidence," including Parker's statements and medical records and statements of key civilian witnesses — enough to "taint" his testimony, according to an OPP statement read in court in December 2021. 

As a result, Parker's charges were withdrawn.

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"Inspector Stringer Investigating Case," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 16, 1933. Page 2. ----- Provincial Police Detailed to Act on Tim Buck Telegram ---- Chief Inspector William Stringer of the Criminal Investigation branch of the Ontario Provincial Police, has been detailed to conduct the inquiry ordered by Attorney-General Price into the circumstances surrounding the demand made of Judge E. H. McLean by the Finnish Organization of Canada "for a rescinding of the frame-up indictment against Tim Buck and the establishment of the rights of all political prisoners." Inspector Stringer's appointment to the case was ordered after the Attorney-General conferred with Deputy. Attorney-General Edward Bayly and Major-General Victor Williams, Provincial Police Commissioner. The inspector spent part of yesterday afternoon on the matter, but up to a late hour last night had made no report to. Col. Price. The telegraphed demand of the Finnish organization was received on Wednesday by Judge McLean as he was sitting on the trial of Convict Hugh Burling, of Kingston Penitentlary.

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"Members of Toronto's LGBTQ+ community are raising questions about the appointment of the city's new chief of police, Myron Demkiw, following his official swearing-in on Monday.

Specifically, they want to know how an officer who participated in the infamous Pussy Palace raid has become the city's top cop. 

Chanelle Gallant, a community activist and one of the original Pussy Palace organizers, is demanding answers from Toronto Mayor John Tory. 

"Mayor Tory appointed someone who, from what we can tell, is an old school cops' cop who brings a kind of lack of accountability and a willingness to... violate the human rights of Toronto residents," said Gallant.

In September of 2000, six male Toronto police officers raided a bathhouse event for queer women and transgender people by what was known as the Pussy Palace Collective. Organizers said the party was designed to help women explore their sexuality in a supportive setting.

In 2002, an Ontario provincial court judge ruled that police were wrong to raid the event and a subsequent class-action lawsuit resulted in an apology by police.

Shortly after Demkiw's appointment in September, news broke that he had participated in the raid."

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Ontario Provincial Police

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Ontario Police Have Arrested Eight People Suspected of Forging Thousands of Artworks Attributed to Indigenous Artist Norval Morrisseau

Forced child labor, murder, and a member of the Barenaked Ladies all factor into the story around the elaborate forgery ring.

Taylor Dafoe, March 6, 2023

Artist Norval Morrisseau in a photo from 1977. Photo: Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images.

Eight people in Ontario, Canada have been arrested in connection to an art forgery ring responsible for producing and selling paintings falsely attributed to the late Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau.

The suspects now face 40 total charges related to forgery, fraud, and criminal organization, according to information shared by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) last week.

The arrests, made on March 1, mark the culmination of a multi-year investigation into the elaborate forgery scheme—the full story of which also includes forced child labor, murder, and a member of the Barenaked Ladies.

Considered by many to be the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada, Morrisseau—or Copper Thunderbird, as he was sometimes known—was a member of the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation who fused Indigenous lore, mystical symbols, and political messages into his vibrantly colorful work. When he died in December 2007, Morrisseau left behind a rich and seemingly abundant body of work—though how much of that work is authentic remains somewhat of a mystery

The probe into fake works by the artist began in 2019, when Detective Sargent Jason Rybak of the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) in northwestern Ontario was researching the death of a man named Scott Dove.

“During that, [Dove’s] mom called me and asked if I had seen this documentary called There Are No Fakes, which had information on the murder of her son,” Rybak recalled in an interview last week with CBC/Radio-Canada.

Released earlier that year, the documentary begins with Kevin Hearn, keyboardist and guitarist for Barenaked Ladies, who had filed a complaint against a Toronto-based gallery alleging that a Morrisseau painting he had purchased there was a fake.

Hearn’s lawsuit had, at the time, been dismissed by a local court, but the film found evidence of a forgery ring that likely produced the artwork he owned, and suggested that they may have even been created by underage forgers in sweatshop-like conditions. (In September 2019, the ruling in Hearn’s case was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal and the rockstar was awarded $60,000 in compensation.)

After watching There Are No Fakes, Rybak reached out to Hearn. “That really was the jump-off point for this investigation,” the detective said.

Not long after, TBPS officers obtained a warrant to search the home of Gary Lamont. There, police “started seizing painting after painting after painting,” Rybak explained. “We quickly realized the magnitude of what we were getting ourselves into.” It was at that point that the team behind the investigation called the OPP for help.

A suspected Morrisseau forgery seized by police. Courtesy of the OPP.

Lamont is one of the eight suspects charged last week. The others are David John Voss, Diane Marie Champagne, Linda Joy Tkachyk, Jeffrey Gordon Cowan, James White, David P. Bremnerand, and Benjamin Paul Morrisseau—a nephew of the late artist.

Together, the suspects represent three different, yet connected groups of Morrisseau forgers. The first was launched back in 1996, while the others were established in 2002 and 2008, respectively. At times, all three rings collaborated.

Police believe Morrisseau made for a lucrative target both because he was an important artist and a prolific one.

The forgers “knew his lifestyle,” Rybak said. “They knew that he had struggles. They knew that he never kept a list of his paintings… At times [Morrisseau] would just give paintings away to people for milk and and eggs, and so they knew that there was no way in their mind of tracking legitimate paintings.”

To determine which paintings were fake, the investigative team took a “multifaceted approach,” according to OPP detective inspector Kevin Veillieux.

“We conducted a wide range of witness interviews that provided very valuable information,” Veillieux told CBC. “We had reached out to different groups that had the ability to do certain forensic testing for us.”

In total, investigators seized more than 1,000 fake Morrisseau artworks from a variety of sources, including collectors, galleries, and museums. Some were purchased for “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to police.

And there are likely many more Morrisseau forgeries still out there. Some even suggest there might be 10 times as many fakes as there are genuine Morrisseau artworks on the market. Veillieux encouraged owners of other suspected imitations to seek legal counsel before going to the police.

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Comment from me regarding the last paragraph of this article.

“And there are likely many more Morrisseau forgeries still out there. Some even suggest there might be 10 times as many fakes as there are genuine Morrisseau artworks on the market”. This reminds me of a joke a dealer friend of mine used to tell. It was also a commentary on “savvy” American tourist/collectors. Regarding the extremely prolific and easy to forge landscapes by Camille-Corot he said “of the 15,000 documented Corot paintings in the world…..25,000 of them are in the United States”

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Not only did the women only have gender neutral changerooms, the room had glass walls? WTF? Who came up with the idea of gender neutral changeroons with glass walls? And who paid for it? 2

By Reduxx Team April 4, 2024

A man with a history of sexually predatory behavior has been sentenced for voyeurism after it was discovered he had been using the “gender-neutral” changing room of a local recreation center to watch women undress.

Mark Istephan, 52, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after he attempted to watch a woman shower at a community pool on Vancouver Island. Istephan was previously convicted for the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl.

During court proceedings, Western Communities provincial court Judge Ted Gouge heard that the incident occurred on the morning of May 4, 2023, at the Sooke and Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Commission (SEAPARC). The SEAPARC is a designated “LGBTQI+ Safe Space,” and highlights that it prioritizes inclusivity and “does not tolerate violence, bullying, or hate speech towards the LGBTQI+ community”

The victim, identified only as Z.R. in court documents, had been swimming at the community centre and returned to the gender-neutral change room before showering in a private cubicle. As she was getting dressed, she saw the shadow of a man in the next cubicle who appeared to be trying to watch her through the gap between the bottom of the cubicle divider and the floor.

Z.R. ran to the reception desk and informed staff, who promptly called police and Istephan was arrested. In his decision, Judge Gouge noted that Z.R. was left traumatized by the experience, and continues to suffer anxiety as a result, specifically when using public recreation facilities.

During the hearing, Istephan refused to participate in a psychological assessment, something the judge called “unique.” Istephan claimed he did not have any mental health concerns, and declined a pre-sentence interview with a forensic psychologist.

The court heard that in 2001, Istephan attempted to force a 13-year-old girl at a bus stop into his car. He was ultimately convicted of attempted kidnapping and received a conditional sentence of 18 months, which he served in the community.

In 2007, Istephan was convicted of public indecency when he was arrested for masturbating on a lakeside wharf in Victoria, resulting in a 60-day jail sentence and three years of probation.

According to a Port Moody Police release from 2018, Istephan briefly went missing after being discharged from Eagle Ridge Hospital. At the time, he was described as being a male of Middle Eastern descent who was approximately 6 feet tall.

Since his initial conviction for attempted kidnapping in 2001, Istephen has been further convicted of breach of probation for failing to complete a sex offender counseling program in 2009, and another breach of probation in 2014 for being within 200 meters of a school.

The incident in Sooke further accentuates the concerns surrounding the safety of “gender-neutral” restrooms that have emerged over the past year.

As previously reported by Reduxx, the city of Cambridge, Ontario, recently sparked outrage after announcing that plans for a new recreation center would completely eliminate traditional male-female changing rooms. Instead, a glass-walled “universal gender-neutral common area” would be established where males and females would share a common space and cubicles.

During a meeting on April 29, the Mayor of Cambridge had a woman removed from a city council meeting for expressing her worries about the safety of the proposal.

In the United Kingdom, just under 90% of complaints regarding changing room sexual assaults, voyeurism and harassment that occurred between 2017 and 2018 were found to have taken place in gender-neutral or unisex facilities.

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Ontario Provincial Police, 2015

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Bowmanville Clarington Jane Doe

December 31, 2023

In a field in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, a man harvesting dogwood plants would make a gruesome discovery on October 26, 2006. The man came across the skull, femur and scattered skeletal remains of a woman who had no clothes or hair.

The field was in the area of Clarington, close to the Darlington Nuclear Plant. The unidentified woman had teeth in good condition, and she also had expertly set nose fracture, determining that a some point she may have had a nasal surgery or even a rhinoplasty.

The cause of death could not be determined as the condition of the remains, but it is speculated that this woman was mostly a homicide victim.

The Jane Doe was estimated to be between the ages of 18-30. She may have been there for 2-10 years before discovery (1996-2004), and possibly as long as 25 years (1981). In full, investigators believe she could have died between 1976-2006.

Some believe the potential murder may have happened in that location.

The scene was heavily searched by DRP Forensic Identification Unit, the Ontario Provincial Police and a forensic anthropologist. The search wrapped up on November 29, 2006, with a piece of red ribbon, a small heart shaped object, a penny from 1980, and a women's OMNI digital watch with a large red face and stainless steel straps made for a small wrist.

The watch was made by the Omni Watch Company in the early 1980's and was sold at Consumers Distributing from 1981-1983.

Description of what the woman may look like and a description of the items found were released in 2009, but no leads came forward.

On October 27, 2010, investigators went back to the site 4 years after the original discovery of the body. The water table in Bowmanville had decreased in that time, as the area had a couple dry years recently.

The usually wet and muddy area was dry enough for a better search. More items were found in this search, and they searched over 20 acres.

One of the items found in this second search was a 9.5 size woman's ring, that was hold and had a red garnet stone and two one-point diamonds on either side. Inside the band, the word "Burns" was stamped.

This ring had been made by A&A Manufacturing in Toronto, sold at Burns Jewlers, a family business located in Oshawa. The business operated from 1923-1994, and wasn't far from the Darlington Nuclear Plant.

The ring was frequently worn in life, and investigator's believe this is the most significant piece of evidence that may eventually lead to the Jane Doe's identity.

A man's hooded short sleeved shirt with red, yellow and blue stripes was also found. The shirt was from Tip Top Tailor, labelled "Blue Rodeo" and sold from 1995-1996. In 2019, it was also noted that remnants of grey track pants were also found.

A DNA profile of the woman was created but no dental records or matches have come about. Detectives believe it is likely the woman was never reported as missing.

In June 2013, the Durham Regional Police got a forensic artist named Diana Trepkov to make a sketch of the woman found based on her skull. Because she had no hair upon discovery, her hair type is unknown but she had protruding upper and lower teeth.

The woman had visible white fillings on her front teeth, small silver fillings on some of her back teeth. Her upper teeth protruded more than her lower teeth, and the skull was missing two teeth when it was found.

On September 14, 1963, a 13 year old girl named Noreen Greenley was abducted in Bowmanville. Her case remains unsolved and I will cover it next, but she is not the Bowmanville Clarington Jane Doe.

If anyone has any information they can contact the Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Source: CanadaUnsolved