HELP ME OUT HERE. Does it make sense to allow a stranger to eTransfer themselves money from your bank account in exchange for cash? I don’t get it. According to The Star:
Toronto residents are being targeted with an e-transfer scam near malls. Here’s how to protect yourself
Toronto investigators are probing “several” incidents of the scam, a police spokesperson told the Star.
Aug. 26, 2025
Officers are urging people to always keep hold of their phones while sending an e-transfer to someone they don’t know.
By Elissa MendesStaff Reporter
Torontonians should be on the lookout for an e-transfer scam near local malls, investigators warned Tuesday.
In the scam, an individual targets victims near public spaces and ask them to e-transfer the individual $10 or $20 in exchange for cash, investigators said in a news release.
But when the victim provides their cellphone to the person with their banking app open, the suspect inputs their email address and sends themselves upwards of $3,000 from the victim’s account.
The suspect then hands back the victim’s phone and flees, police said.
Toronto investigators are probing “several” incidents of the scam, with more reports coming in, a police spokesperson told the Star.
Officers are urging people to always keep hold of their phones while sending an e-transfer to someone they don’t know, and to never allow strangers to access to their online banking information.
AFTER TAKING YEARS AND FINALLY WORKING OUT WHAT INFORMATION THE POLICE CAN DISCLOSE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT YOU IN THE FEDERAL CRIMINAL RECORDS ACT, DOUG FORD AGAIN SHOWS THAT HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW. I’m with the police on this one.
As reported by The Star:Eight months after the Ford government imposed deeper background checks for people who work with vulnerable children, some police forces across the province are refusing to issue them, saying the changes raise privacy concerns and may contradict existing laws.The new requirement is also causing widespread confusion at child welfare agencies and organizations that provide services to children and youth, including group homes and foster care providers.The law now requires anyone working with kids under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act to obtain a broad record check — a more extensive background search than previously mandated. Under the new check, law enforcement agencies must disclose “every contact between the person and a police service for which there is a written record,” which could include mental health crisis calls and non-criminal police encounters, such as noise complaints or 911 calls by victims of domestic violence.The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the province’s police leaders, was not consulted on the changes before they came into force, a spokesperson told the Star. José Luís Couto said police services have had concerns with how the new provisions may be in conflict with federal legislation, including the Criminal Records Act.Under the updated legislation, all interactions with police must be disclosed unless the information is “not relevant to the person’s suitability to perform caregiving duties for a child” — a clause that leaves it up to individual police forces to decide what information to release, leaving room for inconsistent interpretation across the province.
SPEED CAMERAS -the resistance is great. They’re not working to slow down drivers because the speed camera zones are not clearly marked. If they are to work then they have to be signed/labeled/marked very visibly big and bright because when a driver knows that they’ll get a speeding ticket, they’ll slow down.
From The Star, August 18, 2025
In Vaughan, after thousands of tickets were issued and countless complaints followed, the city decided to pause its speed-camera program. In Brampton, there was a 5,000-plus-person petition to shut the devices down and stop using them. A Toronto councillor tried to make a motion to do something similar in the city, decrying them as speed traps.
And the cameras themselves are taking a beating. In Guelph, two speed cameras were knocked over in the past week. Earlier this spring, nine cameras were defaced in Vaughan, including some on hydro poles that required 50-foot ladders to reach. (One man was arrested, and police are still looking for others.) In late May, a speed camera was stolen in Paris, Ont.
The complaints about speed cameras are legion: They’re not visible enough; the speed limits they’re enforcing aren’t fair; they don’t work; they don’t get results.
In Vaughan, the speed camera program was paused shortly after it was launched because more than 32,000 tickets were issued to drivers in just three weeks, (from one single camera) which was a shock to everyone.
“BELIEVE THE VICTIM” – discloses a legal and logical fallacy. In law, a “victim” is not a victim unless and until the crime has been proven in a court of law. Rosie DiManno of The Star has commented upon the Hockey Canada case as follows:
“She (Justice Carroccia) cut to the tortured heart of the matter. “Although the slogan ‘believe the victim’ has become popularized of late, it has no place in a criminal trial. To approach a trial with the assumption that the complainant is telling the truth is the equivalent of imposing a presumption of guilt on the person accused of sexual assault and then placing the burden on him to prove his innocence. That is antithetical to the fundamental principles of justice enshrined in our Constitution and the values underlying our free and democratic society. … The approach, in fact, is infantilizing women.”
One has to wonder why this case was prosecuted. “Lead Crown Attorney Meaghan Cunningham, chair of the province’s sexual violence advisory group, had warned E.M. that, while she believed the test to prosecute had been met — that E.M. was incapable of giving consent under the circumstances — it was “not a really, really strong case.”
In the end, Cunningham’s caution was on the nose. And E.M. is the loser.
But as she prepares for her upcoming wedding, to the same boyfriend she cuckolded back then, E.M. is also a much richer woman. The verdict doesn’t matter. She doesn’t have to give the money back.”
