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On March 6, 2024, the Wickramasinghe family, Sri Lankan immigrants, were fatally stabbed inside of their house in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Canada. Four children were killed, along with their mother, and a male family friend. Their father was injured. It was the worst mass killing in the city's recent history.
During the 1980s and 1990s a moral panic [1] about alleged satanic ritual abuse occurred, mainly in parts of the English-speaking world. This was propagated by certain psychotherapists, social workers, Christian fundamentalists and law enforcement officials. Some of the cases ended in prosecution and imprisonment; all but one of those ...
Silver was a career criminal who had been arrested in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto, during his stay in Winnipeg he was suspected of been involved in at least 60 burglaries. After being locked in an apartment during a burglary, Silver burst through the back door shooting Sgt. Major E. Sewell, and later shot at Detective James Ayres.
Dubrovin, a Russian politician and leader of the Union of the Russian People, was supposedly arrested and killed by Cheka authorities for organizing pogroms and murders in the mid-1900s. However, poor record keeping and claims from different historians place his last known sightings from 1918 to 1929, making it unclear when his actual ...
The gang's biggest heist took place at a Bank of America branch in San Diego on September 23, 1980, when the US$283,000 they stole set a San Diego record. On October 31, 1980, FBI agents arrested Wright and Mitchell in the Sedona, Arizona area near Slide Rock State Park.
The ICC has publicly indicted 57 people. Proceedings against 25 are ongoing: 20 are at large as fugitives and five are on trial. Proceedings against 32 have been completed: two are serving sentences, seven have finished sentences, four have been acquitted, seven have had the charges against them dismissed, four have had the charges against them ...
Canada convoy protest Part of COVID-19 protests in Canada Protesters in front of Parliament Hill on February 12, 2022 (top); Vehicles lined up on Wellington Street January 28 (middle left); Supporters greet a truck on an overpass in Merritt, British Columbia (middle right); Protesters near the East Block of Parliament Hill (bottom) Date January 22 – February 23, 2022 (1 month and 1 day ...
The government of Canada has banned more than 52 terrorist organizations. These include Al Qaeda, the Armed Islamic Group, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the International Sikh Youth Federation, the Palestine Liberation Front, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Hamas ...