Are Kids Being Hired for Shootings in Canada? ft. Nick Dolinski
Teenagers allegedly recruited online for shootings. Illegal guns, fentanyl trafficking, arson and fraud are raising bigger questions.
Who is really behind Canada’s changing crime landscape—and are police, courts and lawmakers keeping up?
In this episode, we break down:
- Allegations that teenagers are being recruited through encrypted apps to carry out shootings for as little as $1,000
- The Toronto consulate shooting investigation and questions surrounding who funds and organizes youth-for-hire crime
- Why Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act, bail system and sentencing laws are facing renewed scrutiny
- Concerns about illegal and unregistered firearms and how young offenders are gaining access to guns
- Toronto Police calls for broader justice-system reform amid repeat violent offences involving young people
- Suspicious fires and suspected arson investigations across Western Canada
- A Quebec brewery union treasurer sentenced after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in union funds
- A major Moncton-area drug trafficking investigation involving fentanyl, methamphetamine and contraband cigarettes
- Whether Canadian policing, cybercrime investigations and prevention strategies are evolving fast enough to confront modern organized crime
- Hosts: Paul Micucci
- Guests: Nick Dolinski
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:12 Youth recruitment, encrypted apps and $1,000 crime contracts
- 04:17 Who is really behind the shootings?
- 06:24 Do Canada’s youth crime laws need reform?
- 09:28 Guns, registries and access to illegal firearms
- 11:03 Toronto festival shooting and rising public violence
- 13:45 Toronto Police calls for justice-system reform
- 15:22 Are policing methods keeping up with modern crime?
- 17:18 Suspicious fires and arson concerns in Western Canada
- 21:43 Union treasurer sentenced in major fraud case
- 26:23 Major fentanyl trafficking bust in New Brunswick
- 29:39 Crime, cleanup and changing Canadian cities
- 31:06 Why Canada is talking more openly about organized crime
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