Born in Ottawa, deported to India
The Conservative government is deporting an Ottawa convict to India even though he was born in Canada. Deepan Budlakoti, a 23-year-old first-time federal offender, is being deported to his parents’...
View Article#ikea monkey in a cage
I liked it better when the ikea monkey, Darwin, was running around. This is him, in a cage, of all things. Here’s a video of him in his ex-owner’s cage. There’s also video of him on a leash and...
View ArticleOttawa Police: Stay calm and obey this armed bandit
Ottawa cops are hunting for an English-speaking black man after a series of hold-ups. Here’s the cop release: (Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a series of retail robberies and is...
View ArticleNEWTOWN: Names and ages of the children
Here’s the list of children murdered at school, of all places. Charlotte Bacon, age 6 Daniel Barden, age 7 Olivia Engel, age 6 Josephine Gay, age 7 Ana M Marquez-Greene, age 6 Dylan Hockley, age 6...
View ArticleOttawa child killer set free, living in neighbourhood of young families
James Sidney Allen, the ‘sadistic pedophile’ who killed eight-year-old Ricky Johnston in an Orleans swamp in 1975, has quietly been released from the Royal Ottawa Hospital’s secure forensic unit in...
View ArticleVIDEO: $1,000,000 Torch gang hits ATM
Here’s the Halton Police video to accompany @Meghan_Hurley’s hit today on the blowtorch bandits that have so far ripped off almost $1,000,000 from bank machines. The kid with the torch knows what he’s...
View ArticlePolice will keep an eye on child killer
The Brockville Police Department says it’s keeping an eye on a sadistic Ottawa child killer released from a mental hospital and now living without supervision at an apartment down the road from an...
View ArticleAn Appointment with the Waterboys
Reblogged from LeDrew's Muse: After finishing up high school in June of 1988 I took a job at a record store in my local mall, called A&A Records, to supplement my growing but still sparse gigging...
View ArticleChristmas Day B&E: They even took the kids’ winter clothes
Every year, in almost every town, there’s some nasty business this time of year. I was going to file something about those so desperate that they’ve turned to stealing meat at the Superstore. But...
View ArticleSecret RCMP project revealed in lawsuit; Mountie sues force, big-style
The Mountie who was in charge of the force’s surveillance and covert-tech unit is suing the RCMP, and its top officers, for allegedly destroying his career and reputation by wrongly targeting him in a...
View ArticleMidnight on the dock in Fitzroy: Body of mom, son pulled from Ottawa River
It was just before midnight down at the Fitzroy ferry dock when police divers hauled up Daron Graves’ brand new Dodge from the bottom of the Ottawa River. His father, Dave Graves, stood at the dock as...
View ArticleNick Vachon and the Escapade Music Festival Caper
In the end, it was Nick Vachon’s life on the run that cut him out of the money. The co-founder of Escapade Music Festival is accused of stealing $660,000 in cash receipts from the 2012 festival only to...
View ArticleNeil Reynolds 1940-2013: We might go out of business but nobody can fire us...
Neil Reynolds: A giant in journalism; Legacy Former editor-in-chief transformed papers into the best in the nation By Charles Enman Telegraph-Journal There is no doubt that Neil Reynolds, who died on...
View ArticleMike Duffy: The day Max Keeping ‘snagged’ him for CTV …
It turns out that Mike Duffy apparently got his CTV start over beers in a backyard. That’s how this story goes anyway. And here it is verbatim: How Max Keeping and the W.K. snagged Duffy The Ottawa...
View ArticleReview of Mike Duffy’s first show: ‘Keep swinging, Senator.’
Here’s the Ottawa Citizen’s review of Mike Duffy’s first show. It ran on D20 in the arts and entertainment section. Duffy show starts slowly The Ottawa Citizen Tue Oct 4 1988 Section:...
View ArticleOttawa Hells Angels president wants to quit
I don’t know if Paul (Sasquatch) Porter has actually told the gang, but he did reveal his plan for the parole board. They didn’t let him out. He’s been a model inmate, has a plan, support and a job,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Tornado touches down in Ottawa, Canada, July 29, 2013
The action kicks in just after 2:28 min into the video. Oh, and the swears are in English, followed by a boatload of OMGs.
View ArticleOttawa killer in Hells Angels contract killing gets date for new trial
I’m told Steven Gareau’s new murder trial is scheduled for Sept. 3 in friendly Halifax, where he was convicted in the 2000 Hells Angels contract killing of Steve Simmons. Anyway, Gareau, now 57, won a...
View ArticleNova Scotia child-porn criminal Joe Starratt is back in jail
Joe Starratt only lasted 10 days on the outside. The child-porn criminal presented himself in court as remorseful back in 2011. His lawyer, according to a report in the Chronicle-Herald, said Starratt...
View ArticleWoman’s killer may have used BBQ propane tank to cause explosion
Detectives working the homicide of retiree Diane Lahaie believe her killer may have deliberately set a fiery explosion in the victim’s home using a BBQ propane tank, which has been recovered from...
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