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Colin Freeze

Reporter · CA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 3, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Colin Freeze

    Former RCMP intelligence director convicted of violating secrets law granted day parole (opens the original)

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    Cameron Ortis, a former RCMP intelligence official who was convicted of violating Canada’s secrecy laws, is no longer in prison after being granted day parole earlier this year to facilitate his return to society. Mr. Ortis was sentenced to 14 years in 2024 after a jury found him guilty of multiple counts of violating Canada’s Security of Information Act. The 54-year-old former RCMP intelligence director was accused of trying to pass along highly sensitive police dossiers to transnational gangs.

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Colin Freeze

    Kenneth Law sentencing hearing to resume in November as victim impact statements wrap (opens the original)

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    The first phase of Kenneth Law’s sentencing hearing for aiding 14 suicides has closed with stories of parents and police attempting to intercept packages sold through his online businesses to vulnerable people around the world. They were among the accounts entered into evidence on Thursday, as prosecutors finished putting 74 victim impact statements on the record in a Newmarket, Ont., courtroom. Mr. Law, who has been jailed for more than three years, attended these hearings while sitting a priso

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Colin Freeze

    Families detail lasting grief as judge weighs Kenneth Law’s sentence (opens the original)

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    A Toronto man whose son died by suicide after purchasing poison from Kenneth Law called for a public inquiry while speaking at a Wednesday sentencing hearing for Mr. Law, who has admitted he helped end the lives of at least 93 people. Stephen Mitchell called on the Ontario government to take action, as he and other relatives of Mr. Law’s victims delivered harrowing public victim-impact statements on the first day of the hearing. Mr. Mitchell’s son, Stephen Jr., died just weeks before Mr. Law’s a

  4. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Colin Freeze

    As Kenneth Law’s sentencing nears, victims’ parents prepare to face grief and push for reform (opens the original)

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    Kenneth Law’s sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin in an Ontario courtroom on Wednesday, four months after he pleaded guilty to aiding in the suicides of 14 people in Canada and admitted to playing a role in dozens more deaths abroad. Mr. Law, 61, operated an online business selling a toxic salt and other deadly paraphernalia to vulnerable people. A court heard earlier this year that he told clients he had engineered painless suicide methods. Authorities said he shipped about 1,200 parcels g

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Colin Freeze

    Shooter-for-hire attacks linked to Toronto police constable’s licence plate searches, Project South documents allege (opens the original)

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    Multiple shooter-for-hire attacks in the Greater Toronto Area last year allegedly trace back to Toronto Police Constable Timothy Barnhardt, who investigators say repeatedly used police databases to leak information to suspected organized crime figures, according to warrant applications that led to the Project South takedown. The newly released materials allege that while he was being surveilled by authorities, Constable Barnhardt accepted money from criminal figures in exchange for making “numer

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