Cousin admits organizing murder of philanthropist Glen Davis
More than four years after prominent Toronto philanthropist Glen Davis was ambushed and shot to death in a midtown parking lot, the victim’s cousin admitted to masterminding the murder plot. Marshall...
View ArticlePlot allegedly led by Canadian to smuggle Gadhafi’s son foiled
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three relatives had plotted to sneak into Mexico under false names and move to a safe house at a posh...
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CIA informant disrupted al-Qaida terror plot
A CIA informant disrupted an al-Qaida terror plot by intercepting a sophisticated underwear bomb, U.S. and Yemeni officials said Tuesday. Officials say the informant was working for the CIA and Saudi...
View ArticleCriminal Code not ‘holy book,’ suspect in alleged train terror plot says
A man charged in an alleged al-Qaida-directed plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train suggested in court Wednesday that he doesn’t recognize the authority of the Criminal Code because it is “not a...
View ArticleTunisian man linked to Via terror plot arrested in U.S.
A third man has been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Via Rail train that travels between the U.S. and Canada. U.S. authorities said Thursday that Tunisian national...
View ArticleVia Rail considers checking IDs after alleged bombing plot
Via Rail says it is contemplating whether to ask all of its travellers for identification as it considers ways to buttress security in the wake of an alleged terrorist plot to derail one of its...
View ArticleTerror suspect didn’t enter U.S. from Canada, Ottawa says
The federal government is dismissing the notion that a terror suspect recently arrested in the United States entered from Canada. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggested Friday that the...
View ArticleSmall-plot farming puts new ‘spin’ on urban agriculture
In the fall of 2010, Erica Lemieux was writing a grant proposal for Cultivate TO, a not-for-profit group that runs a food box program supplied by backyard vegetable gardens. “The grant guidelines said...
View ArticleSuspect in alleged Via Rail terror plot wants evidence made public
One of two terror suspects charged in an alleged plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train wants the evidence police have against him to be made public. The information that police presented to a judge...
View ArticleCourt hearing Friday for 2 accused in Via Rail terror plot
Two men accused of plotting to attack a Via Rail passenger train will appear in a Toronto court on Friday. A judge is expected to set a case management schedule for Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser....
View ArticleTerror allegations aimed at halting man’s bid to clear name with UN: lawyer
Allegations a Montreal man plotted to blow up an airliner are aimed in part at derailing his fight to get off a UN terror watchlist, says his lawyer. Montreal La Presse reported Friday it had obtained...
View ArticleNYC mayor: al-Qaida sympathizer arrested, plotted to bomb police, post offices
NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday an “al-Qaida sympathizer” who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City and U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous...
View ArticleUS officials: CIA foils a new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot against an...
WASHINGTON – The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the...
View ArticleUS, Yemeni officials: Would-be al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
WASHINGTON – U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. The revelation, first reported by The...
View ArticleTwo men arrested in alleged plot to murder, mutilate Justin Bieber
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two men were arrested in the U.S. in November in an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber, a New Mexico TV station reports. According to a...
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