Toronto police admit to using Stingray cellphone surveillance

Let's give it up for the Toronto Star yo. The Toronto Star is reporting that: "Documents that took more than two years to obtain show that Toronto police have used an IMSI catcher, also known as a Stingray, in investigations ranging from a major drug and gun case to a bank robbery."

"After denying use of the controversial technology, documents obtained by the Star show that the Toronto Police Service has used the cellphone data-capturing device known as an IMSI catcher, or Stingray, in five separate investigations. IMSI catchers capture identifying data from all mobile devices being used in a given location - including, in the context of a police investigation, the data of innocent citizens in the vicinity of the target."

"In December 2015, a Toronto police spokesperson told the Star: 'We do not use the Stingray technology and do not have one of the units.' The documents, which took more than two years to obtain through an access-to-information request and subsequent appeal with the province’s information commissioner, say otherwise. They show that Toronto police used the technology in investigations ranging from a major drug and gun case to a bank robbery to a missing person case, starting in 2010." Now that's investigative journalism.

The Toronto Star had to appeal a freedom of information act request to acquire the documents that proved the police were lying to the public. Big surprise. Kinda like how I had to appeal to the Chief Justice to get a copy of the Pickton transcript covering Dianne Rock's story of being gang raped on the Pickton farm after the publication ban had been lifted. Investigative journalism is more than simply printing every press release the police and CSIS send out. It requires doing some digging to find out if the press releases are true or false.

This Toronto Star report brings us back to BC. If the Toronto Police are lying about using Stingray surveillance, what are the BC Police lying about? They can use those f*cking antennas to listen to your private conversations that aren't even on the phone through your cell phone microphones.

Last year I said hey look everyone, they put up a stingray surveillance antenna outside my house. Some claimed that was just a Yagi antenna not a stingray surveillance and I said WTF do you think that Yagi antenna is connected to? It's the exact same antenna they have outside the East Vancouver courthouse monitoring all cell phone communication there.

Then three months later I'm walking past Surrey Petrial and see the same Stingray Surveillance antenna outside Surrey Pretrial. What the hell do you think that antenna is connected to?



When I was at the Vancouver courthouse covering the John Nuttall trial I was standing beside a reporter who asked me to call them on my cell so they could have my cell number. When I called them it said my call was being rerouted through New Westminster. I checked the number and said yes, that's me. When they reroute a number they have access to encrypted transmissions.

The Snowden movie is now on Netflix. Give it up for Ed Snowden yo.

NDP fail to face the BC Hydro fraud

The Globe and Mail is reporting that "British Columbians will not get a freeze on electricity rates that had been promised by the NDP government, the province's independent utilities regulator has ruled. Instead, rates will increase by 3 per cent in April. The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) panel found "insufficient regulatory justification" to justify the New Democrats' election promise to keep rates flat, noting that even the approved increase won't cover what BC Hydro needs."

The question we need to ask is why does BC Hydro need more? Two reasons. The most recent reason is the same reason ICBC is in trouble - because the Liberal government extracted dividends from both companies when there was no money for them to collect forcing both companies to borrow money to give to the Liberals so they could balance their fudge it budget.

Recently it was in the news that drastic changes are needed to ICBC because ICBC is in debt. Yet Peter Ross wrote in to the Vancouver Province and pointed out why. ICBC is $1.3 billion in debt because the BC Liberals just took a $1.3 billion dividend from ICBC to fake their budget. That means ICBC is breaking even and the fake emergency has been manufactured through fraud. The same with BC Hydro. The BC Liberals just took a $852 million dividend from BC Hydro that wasn't there. That's why BC Hydro needs more money.

As we have repeatedly said, extracting a dividend from BC Hydro is quite possible if it wasn't for Gordon Campbell's original fraud that created a tsunami of deferred debt based on insider trading. Gordon Campbell privatized the power brokers that sell power to the public company at above market rates. That meant his campaign contributors made and continue to make a fortune through tax fraud and no one is doing anything to stop it. When you know a crime has been committed and you stand by and watch it continue you become criminally culpable in that crime.



Norm Farrell is a local blogger with credibility. Recenly he reposted a blog post he made in 2016 called the Misappropriation of public wealth which once again explains the BC Hydro fraud we keep referring to. BC Hydro has been paying independent power producers almost $5 billion above market value since 2004. 5 billion tax dollars stolen. That's grand theft.

Not long ago Norm Farrell set up a Gofund me page to help him get the word out. The word is out. Something needs to be done to fix the fraud. Hey ho the IPPs gotta go.

This is the exact kind of fraud that created the Greek Finical crisis which was another manufactured emergency. What was public money became private then disappeared.

Montreal woman gets house arrest for killing baby

CBC is reporting that "A Montreal woman who admitted in court to killing her newborn baby was given a 20-month suspended sentence under house arrest." Which isn't surprising given the fact that the Trudeau government supports killing babies. If fact, if you oppose killing babies you can't get government funding any more thanks to JT.

People get all outraged and ask how can a mother kill her child? One also needs to ask, how can a father tell a mother to kill their child? It is what it is. Abortion stops a beating heart. Abortion as a form of birth control is just plain irresponsible. In this case the baby was a new born.

Surrey rat caught with wig

CBC is reporting that "Metro Vancouver Transit Police have caught a man with a Canada-wide warrant and found a stash of suspicious items in his vehicle during a routine patrol. According to police, Albert Edgar Fontaine, 42, was pulled over in the 100 block of 132 Street in Surrey on Feb. 5 because his vehicle did not have proper insurance. Fontaine provided an alias and a fake ID, but officers discovered he had a Canada-wide warrant and took him into custody. After the arrest, it is alleged that numerous knives, a machete, a baseball bat, a wig, ski masks, handcuffs, a set of brass knuckles and a replica handgun were found in the vehicle, according to police. Fontaine's warrant was related to charges of kidnapping and use of an imitation firearm in 2016 in Penticton. He is also a suspended driver who is not allowed to own weapons."

lol the replica handgun was an airsoft pistol according to Global. The machete is pretty nasty but this is obviously just a thugs night out. No real firepower at all. The wig is interesting, It kinda looks like it was for a drag night out yo. The Transit police caught this guy in Surrey because he had expired insurance. He's clearly not a brain surgeon. Too bad the BC gang task force is as compromised as the EPS. Too bad they won't lift a finger to stop the fentanyl coming out of Shakerz supplying the Surrey Strip. Kinda makes all their press releases look fake.

Nanaimo man defrauded women on dating sites

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "A Nanaimo man, wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for allegedly defrauding women he met on dating websites, was arrested early Thursday morning. Nanaimo RCMP arrested 34-year-old Jordan Shephard after officers located him at 2:30 a.m. sleeping in a car parked outside a motel. Police say Shepherd sought out women between the ages of mid-20s to early 30s on social media and the Plenty of Fish dating website."

"Police said Shepherd would tell women he had lost his bank card or had forgotten it with a family member and ask the women to deposit a cheque — usually between $1,000 to $1,600 — from his company On the Rocks Surveying into their own accounts, and withdraw the corresponding amount for him. After receiving the money, he would disappear before the bank notified the women the cheque did not clear and that his company did not exist."

What a POS. Defrauding women. LOSER.

Salmon Arm Shooting

The Salmon Arm Observer is reporting that "The Salmon Arm RCMP are searching for the suspects who fired a gun at an apartment unit early this morning. At approximately 2:30 a.m. the RCMP received a call complaining shots were fired at a building on First Ave. SW. After arriving on the scene, officers confirmed multiple shots had been fired at an apartment unit, hitting an exterior wall and passing through a window. Two individuals were seen fleeing the scene in a light-coloured compact car."

"No one was injured. RCMP investigators spoke with the individual believed to be the intended target of the shooters. They believe the incident was targeted and related to the local drug trade."

Reno Lee's death was an execution

CBC is reporting that "Crown co-prosecutor Bill Jennings wrapped up his closing remarks Tuesday afternoon in the trial for three men accused in the shooting death and dismemberment of Reno Lee by arguing that the jury should find all three guilty of first-degree murder. Bronson Gordon, Daniel Theodore and Andrew Bellegarde have pleaded not guilty to murdering Lee and committing an indignity to a body. Police believe Reno Lee was killed on April 16, 2015, although they didn't find his remains in a shallow grave on Star Blanket First Nation until later that month. "

CBC is reporting that Reno Lee was murdered for a drug debt. Just like Bob Roth in Alberta. Chad Gordon of Regina was arrested in Edmonton. The Edmonton HAs are dirty as f*ck.

James Riach gets life sentence in Philippines

Kim Bolan is reporting that James Riach has received a life sentence in the Philippines for trafficking cocaine, crystal meth and ecstasy. That's too bad. I liked the Gingerbread man. Kinda bizarre how they refer to him as high profile and the Bacon scum as notorious. James Riach is a lot more notorious than the pig sh*t will ever be.

Obviously I don't support drug trafficking. However, James wasn't as bad as the others. It's like those young girls from Quebec sentenced in Australia for cocaine smuggling. Their life is gone now. Giving them a huge sentence won't stop the people they were working for. Will James Riach's harsh sentence be a deterrent for others to traffic drugs in foreign countries? Perhaps. It's a hard lesson to learn so it is. Crystal meth is a horrible drug.

Jarrod Bacon released early due to typo

I wasn't even going to mention this because pigsh*t is not newsworthy but since the third little piggy is in the news I will comment on it. CBC is reporting that "It was a '7' that was actually supposed to be a '9'. That mistake is now having ripple effects, not just on the life of Jarrod Bacon, but on the public's perception of the corrections system. In 2012, Bacon was sentenced to 12 years in prison, minus time served, for smuggling 100 kilograms of cocaine. He was supposed to serve nine years before being eligible for statutory release. But according to the Parole Board of Canada, that was recorded as seven years instead on a prison document. Because of that, Bacon was released early in February 2017."

"Bacon breached the conditions of his release a few months later and was taken back to prison. His statutory release was revoked. Somewhere along the way, the typo was discovered. Bacon then argued he never should have been released at that time and, therefore, can't be held responsible for the breach. The Parole Board of Canada's appeal division agreed. Bacon is now set to be released on the correct date in June 2018."

You people have got to stop using the word notorious for pig sh*t. Have a little self respect. These clowns are from the suburbs. They aren't from Surrey and they aren't welcome here. The Surrey Six was deplorable. No one here has any respect for any of them at all.

Although Jarrod isn't hated as much as his dead preppy brother or the brainless ork Jamie, his prognosis is not good. He's just a cocky little b*tch that is going to end up dead. In the real hood, he's the kind of guy they shoot first just because he thinks he's all that when he is very far from it.

I would hope that the UN affiliates don't shoot him dead but that's really out of my hands. I would also hope the Hells Angels would stop using him to traffic drugs since he is a heat magnet but that too is out of my hands. If he doesn't stop trafficking drugs I can't see him living very long when he gets out of prison. The only reason he lasted as long as he did is because the police put up a video camera outside his house and gave them 24 police protections. That was insane.

Last year CBC reported that "Jarrod Bacon did not want to be released to a halfway house because he feared his enemies would easily find and kill him." No love lost.

Recently when he was released early by *mistake* he was caught in a strip club with someone who had a criminal record. Everyone speculated that it was Gumby but the police didn't name the person he was with. He took his date to a strip club. Real classy. Those losers trade girlfriends like hockey cards. Like I said before stupid just isn't pretty.

The real villain in this case is his worthless father who encouraged his kids to be involved in the drug trade and financially benefited from it. His father had a good job but greed and materialism took over. He's just another piece of garbage waiting to be flushed down the toilet.

Motorists flocking to Washington state to flee Metro Vancouver gas prices

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "Motorists flocking to Washington state to flee Metro Vancouver gas prices." That is simply a natural consequence of supply and demand. Normally I refuse to fill up in the US. I'm all buy Canadian. Only buying gas in Canada doesn't support Canada it supports Communist China. Since we let them take over the oil monopoly in Canada they can keep jacking up the prices as much as they want so right now this is the only alternative.