On 2026-02-12 3:32 p.m., danny burstein wrote:
In <10ml0hc$1jkpn$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes: >> [snip]That's the standard answer if you ask Canadian police and politicians: >smugglers are bringing them in from the US where guns are widely owned. >(They used to claim that the guns are being stolen from legitimate >gun-owners on this side of the border but I don't hear that claim any
And I'd really like to know where the guns came from.
Time to set up a Kalshi prediction: The US?
more.)
Officers have been accused of giving information to organized crime to
both enrich themselves and to help organized crime, such as the crooked
tow truck industry. They're even accused of helping criminals murder
their enemies. It's so bad that Doug Ford has created (or energized) a >province-wide investigator whose team is going to look at ALL of the
police services in the province to - supposedly - root out corruption. I >haven't heard a timeline yet but I have to expect that such a mission
will take *years* to conduct.
On 2026-02-12 6:25 p.m., danny burstein wrote:
In <10mljiq$1m2m0$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:You don't need the "sic", Canadian Tire is the name by which everyone
[snip]
I don't know if it's made the news in your country yet but the GTA
(Greater Toronto Area) and specifically the Toronto Police Service are
under very close scrutiny by the provincial government as of the last
few days in the wake of a massive scandal involving corrupt police
officers and organized crime working hand-in-glove. Seven serving
officers and one police retiree have already been charged and there is a >>> strong likelihood that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone
expects those 8 officers to rat out others as they try to make deals to
mitigate their own exposure.
knows them. (I expect their official name is Canadian Tire Corporation
or something like that but we all know exactly who you mean when you say >"Canadian Tire".
My real question, of course, is what happened to make this common
practice suddenly become embarassingly news worthy? Did they arrest
Ford's sister in law or make some other mistake?
I'm a little embarrassed to say I don't really know quite how this
bubbled up into a major scandal. This week-old article may give you what
you want, at least in broad outlines.
Speaking of Doug Ford, his son-in-law is a long-serving police officer
and he's undergoing disciplinary proceedings at the moment (and for the
past two years) but this doesn't seem to be connected to the corruption >scandal.
It may well have been at some point. I think we were originally more
British in our terminology than we are now. For instance, I was looking
at an article on the Toronto Police before we got independence in 1867
and they were getting paid in shillings, not dollars. And I still
remember when we used miles and gallons instead of meters and liters; we >only started going metric in 1979 and some of us still think and speak
of imperial units rather than metric ones.
The founders of Canadian Tire were the Billies Brothers and the company
was founded just after WWI. I wouldn't be shocked if they initially
called it Canadian Tyre. Did you know that most of the Canadians who
fought in WWI had actually been born in the UK?
In Canada Ontario and Quebec have their own province police services
while the RCMP provides police services in much of the rest of the
country minus local police forces in major cities. Thus in BC Surrey
and the city of Vancouver (the 2 biggest components of Metro
Vancouver) have their own police while almost all of the rest are RCMP >detachments.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:07:30 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
It may well have been at some point. I think we were originally more
British in our terminology than we are now. For instance, I was looking
at an article on the Toronto Police before we got independence in 1867
and they were getting paid in shillings, not dollars. And I still
remember when we used miles and gallons instead of meters and liters; we
only started going metric in 1979 and some of us still think and speak
of imperial units rather than metric ones.
Part of that was probably due to the federal government pushing hard
on the metric system but a large part of the conversion happened
around the time the price of gas first went over Cdn $1.00 per gallon
as converting gas pumps from cents per gallon to cents per liter was a
lot cheaper than converting from cents per gallon to dollars per
gallon. (Of course it's now over a dollar per liter so they had to
eventually convert their pumps and I'm sure the customers paid for
that too somewhere along the way...)
On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:18:02 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
Officers have been accused of giving information to organized crime toFor those unfamiliar Doug Ford is Premier of Ontario which has about
both enrich themselves and to help organized crime, such as the crooked
tow truck industry. They're even accused of helping criminals murder
their enemies. It's so bad that Doug Ford has created (or energized) a
province-wide investigator whose team is going to look at ALL of the
police services in the province to - supposedly - root out corruption. I
haven't heard a timeline yet but I have to expect that such a mission
will take *years* to conduct.
38-39% of the Canadian population. No state governor in the US is as important to Washington as the Ontario provincial government is to
Ottawa. Most policing in Ontario is done by the Ontario Provincial
Police though there are important local forces in major cities.
In Canada Ontario and Quebec have their own province police services
while the RCMP provides police services in much of the rest of the
country minus local police forces in major cities. Thus in BC Surrey
and the city of Vancouver (the 2 biggest components of Metro
Vancouver) have their own police while almost all of the rest are RCMP detachments.
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