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Winnipeg police suspend use of Crime Stoppers after data breach
Winnipeg police suspend use of Crime Stoppers
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Steve Lambert
Winnipeg police say they've suspended the use of Crime Stoppers in light of a massive data breach of the crime-reporting system.
The pause comes after CBC reported that 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years were stolen earlier this year.
Winnipeg police say they have been made aware that some data related to the city was included in the breach.
They are reviewing the additional safeguards and security measures being implemented by Crime Stoppers.
Other police forces in Canada have also suspended use of the service, including several in the Toronto region.
Crime Stoppers is a community-based intermediary that allows people to anonymously report information about crimes to police.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Israeli companies misled Canadians about West Bank real estate, complaint alleges
Israeli real estate events prompt complaint
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Home In Israel (Mandatory Credit)
A group of lawyers and civil society members have filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Israeli real estate events in Toronto and Montreal, alleging that illegal properties were marketed to Canadians under false pretences.
The complaint alleges at least four Israeli real estate companies and one Canadian marketing firm promoted properties in occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank while misleading consumers to believe they were in Israel.
The Competition Bureau says it will review the complaint filed by Global Echo Litigation Center and the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights and determine if an investigation into the companies is warranted.
James Yap, president of the lawyers' association and a Windsor university law professor, said Canadians who may have purchased West Bank properties could be opening themselves up to serious legal consequences under international law, such as complicity in war crimes.
Canada and much of the international community have long held that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal and an obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
The territory has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but settlement activity has significantly increased since the onset of the latest war in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced most of Gaza's two million residents.
Ottawa advised Canadian businesses in August to avoid engaging with Israeli settlements, warning that failing to do so could open them up to legal and financial risk.
“The Canadian government talks a lot about upholding international law,” Yap said. “We have our prime minister bemoaning the deterioration of the international rules-based order. They condemn the settlements as illegal. They talk about taking steps, taking action. This is a chance for the Canadian government to actually take action.”
The complaint, filed on behalf of six Canadians, compiles photos, social media posts and promotional materials of condo projects in the occupied West Bank being marketed at various real estate events from 2024 to 2026.
One photo of an Israeli real estate company’s booth at the 2024 Great Israeli Real Estate Event in Montreal suggests the company promoted condo projects in Ma'ale Adumim and Adam, two Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, alongside Israeli real estate.
The company’s booth advertised the developments with the message of finding one’s “dream home in Israel.”
Another company’s booth at the same 2024 event advertised it as “your real estate agency in Jerusalem” while listing the locations of four Israeli settlements in the West Bank and two Israeli cities. The company is more explicit on its website, stating that its homes in West Bank settlements in Efrat, Mitzpe Yericho and Ma’ale Adumim are in Israel.
A Canadian marketing firm that helps North Americans buy Israeli real estate similarly lists a West Bank condo development as being in Israel on its website but it used more ambiguous language at a real estate event in Toronto.
The firm promoted a condo project in the Givat HaMatos settlement, located in East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, at the 2026 Israel Real Estate Briefing in Toronto with the tagline “own a piece of Jerusalem.”
The lawyers behind the complaint to the Competition Bureau argue the ambiguity isn’t enough to absolve the companies.
Under Canadian law, courts use a “general impression” test to determine if an advertisement is false or misleading. If an ad is literally true but omits essential information that would influence a consumer’s behaviour, it could violate the Competition Act.
The lawyers argue that by promoting these properties at events titled the Great Israeli Real Estate Event and the Israeli Real Estate Briefing, and omitting mention of their true location in internationally-contested territories, the real estate companies misled Canadians.
Ariel Katz, a competition law expert who reviewed the complaint but was not involved in its filing, said he finds the evidence compelling, but couldn’t say if the Competition Bureau would be likely to launch an inquiry.
“This is a highly politically charged topic, right? So whatever decision they make, they might be under enormous pressure,” Katz said.
Israel contends that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not illegal because of Jewish people’s historic connection to the land.
While the complaint deals with allegations of false advertising, Katz said the West Bank properties that were allegedly promoted at the events are considered illegal under international law, and Ottawa could ban the marketing of such properties altogether.
The lawyers behind the complaint say they’re leaving the door open for future legal action that could target the illegality of the properties themselves.
The Canadian Press asked Global Affairs Canada if the sale of West Bank property is illegal in Canada and whether Canadians could be legally liable if they purchased such property but did not receive an answer before publication.
Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, founder of Global Echo Litigation Center, said her law firm has been monitoring a “circuit” of Israeli real estate events in the United States, United Kingdom, France and other countries.
She said the complaint before the Competition Bureau gives Canada a chance to “pave the way” for other countries to follow suit in cracking down on these kinds of sales.
Marlee Wasser, one of the complainants, said she’s a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and sees the sale of Israeli settlement property in Canada as normalizing genocide in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers have attacked and displaced Palestinians.
She added that protests outside Israeli real estate events have been used to justify restricting peoples’ right to protest in Canada.
The mayor of Vaughan, Ont., proposed a bubble zone bylaw – which ultimately passed – restricting protests near places of worship, schools and hospitals shortly after protesters demonstrated outside a local synagogue where an Israeli real estate event was being held in 2024.
For Basel Adra, an Oscar award-winning documentarian and community engagement manager at Global Echo Litigation Center, the complaint before the Competition Bureau is a chance for Canada to do “what’s right.”
The Palestinian filmmaker of “No Other Land,” a documentary about the destruction of a West Bank community, says there’s daily construction in the West Bank, building homes and roads for Israeli settlers.
While he’s never personally seen a Canadian settler in the West Bank, Adra said there are settlers from all over the world, especially America, in Israeli communities in the region.
Adra said he’s been attacked by settlers several times, and last week a group of settlers invaded his family’s land and cut down olive trees.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in June there was an average of six settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the West Bank each day of 2026 thus far that caused casualties or property damage, higher than any other year on record.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
By Kathryn Mannie | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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B.C. election at a glance: Hand count for most votes due to snap call's 'logistics'
B.C. election: Hand count for most votes
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
It's the last full day of campaigning in British Columbia's election ahead of final voting day Saturday.
Here's a look at some of the latest developments on the campaign trail.
HAND COUNT FOR MOST BALLOTS
Elections BC has confirmed that votes cast on election day will be tallied manually, in a departure from 2024, when electronic tabulators were used to count paper ballots for the first time in a general election.
That was hailed as a success in Elections BC's report on the polls, but the agency says in a statement that it's going back to a manual count due to "short time frames and complex operational logistics of a snap election."
It says paper ballots cast at advance polling stations and at district electoral offices will still be counted with electronic tabulators, and it expects those results to be reported first after ballots close at 8 p.m.
Elections BC also says the election-night count will not include absentee or mail-in ballots, which will be tallied at the final count scheduled for Nov. 6 to Nov. 10.
Elections BC's report on the 2024 election says electronic tabulation allowed the first preliminary results to be reported within five minutes of polls closing, and 59 per cent of preliminary results to reported within half an hour.
It said that in past elections first results typically started to be reported around 45 minutes after polls closed.
DOERKSON RALLIES WITH CLARK AND MCCALLUM
The B.C. Conservatives held a rally in Surrey on Thursday night, with mayor-elect Doug McCallum endorsing Lorne Doerkson as the province's next premier.
Also present at the rally were former B.C. premier Christy Clark, and former Surrey mayors Linda Hepner and Dianne Watts.
McCallum told the rally that he was standing with people who had changed Surrey and it was time to change B.C.
The 82-year-old McCallum is about to embark on his third separate stint as Surrey's mayor, after defeating incumbent Brenda Locke in the Oct. 17 municipal elections.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
By Canadian Press Staff | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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7 destinations pas chères pour les Québécois selon l'expert en aubaine des Vols d'Alexi
Prends des notes, tu as un voyage à organiser! ✈️
Voyager peut être très dispendieux. Hôtels, restaurants, activités touristiques, transports, des vacances outremer peuvent certainement demander un certain budget et même parfois te faire grincer des dents devant ton portefeuille qui se vide à une vitesse fulgurante.
Pour t'aider à économiser un brin et te permettre alors de profiter au max de tes congés, l'expert en aubaines, Alexi Roy, l'homme derrière Les Vols d'Alexi, une entreprise qui te permet de recevoir des alertes de vols à bas prix, s'est entretenu avec Narcity afin de te donner ses destinations préférées qui sont souvent à petits prix pour la population québécoise.
Que ce soit en raison des nombreuses offres de vols pas chers à partir de Montréal, du coût de la vie, ou du taux de change, ces sept endroits valent assurément le détour! Prends des notes et sors ta valise et tes lunettes de soleil, car tu as un voyage à préparer!
À noter que les aubaines mentionnées pour chaque pays sélectionné par le voyageur peuvent avoir été publiées il y a plusieurs jours. Il se pourrait donc que les prix ne soient plus valides. Par contre, cela te permet d'avoir une idée des différents tarifs possibles pour ces destinations.
Le Portugal
Le Portugal est l'une des destinations préférées des touristes qui s'envolent vers l'Europe. Sur le bord de l'océan Atlantique et de la Méditerranée, ce pays envoûte par ses plages magnifiques, sa riche culture et, bien sûr, sa scène culinaire savoureuse.
« Tap Air, c'est le transporteur qui permet d'avoir les prix les plus bas vers l'Europe. Vu que la maison-mère est à Lisbonne, ça fait que cette destination est beaucoup moins chère », indique Alexi.
L'expert des bonnes aubaines a d'ailleurs trouvé des vols aller-retour, de septembre 2023 à février 2024, vers Lisbonne pour 541 $, soit 51 % de rabais par rapport au prix habituel.
Arrivé.e là-bas sache que les prix au Portugal, pour le logement, le transport, la nourriture et les activités, sont peu élevés si on les compare à d'autres pays européens. Le coût de la vie serait, selon la plateforme Numbeo, 45 % moins cher qu'au Canada.
Monnaie courante : Euro
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 18 avril 2023
San Francisco
Tout récemment, Alexi a déniché des vols aller-retour directs vers San Francisco pour moins de 500 $ : « Ce qui est intéressant avec une destination comme celle-là, c'est que tu es à l'autre bout carrément des États-Unis alors l'espèce de ratio dollars/distance est vraiment vraiment bon et ce sont des vols directs ».
Alexi précise que ce n'est pas une destination plus dispendieuse qu'une autre dans l'état de la Californie. Le fana des voyages recommande de visiter les attractions touristiques telles que le fameux Golden Gate Bridge, mais aussi de partir à l'aventure un peu à l'extérieur de la ville pour explorer la nature impressionnante.
Monnaie courante : Dollar américain
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 4 mai 2023
Guadeloupe
« Le coût de la vie est super acceptable là-bas. Je dirais que tout ce qui est Guadeloupe et Martinique, […] ce sont vraiment des coup de coeur. »
Le spécialiste des recherches de vols peu dispendieux a d'ailleurs trouvé, à maintes reprises, plusieurs vols vers cette île paradisiaque à peu de frais et de multiple abonné.es en ont profité. Reste donc à l'affût si des vacances au soleil te font de l'oeil.
Monnaie courante : Euro
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 30 avril 2023
Colombie
« La Colombie a eu une réputation un peu plus mouvementée il y a environ 10 ans, mais maintenant c'est très appréciée. […] C'est vraiment pas cher! Le billet d'avion c'est pratiquement la dépense la plus élevée durant tout le voyage, ce n'est vraiment pas dispendieux la Colombie », lance-t-il.
Concernant les villes à visiter, Alexi recommande particulièrement Medellín, Bogota et Carthagène. Tu peux actuellement trouver des vols pour la Colombie pour 619 $ aller-retour, pour des séjours entre mai 2023 et janvier 2024. Les vols sont 46 % moins chers que les prix habituels.
Monnaie courante : Pesos colombiens
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 8 mai 2023
Calgary
Depuis l'arrivée des compagnies aériennes à bas prix au Canada, on peut penser à Flair Airlines et Lynx Air, l'Ouest canadien s'est complètement ouvert aux Québécois.es : « C'est vraiment Calgary et Vancouver qui sont très bas (les vols). Oui, encore là, c'est au Canada, donc ça reste très abordable. […] Ce sont vraiment des destinations gagnantes. […] Calgary, souvent le monde qui va aller là-bas, c'est pour faire des road trips sur les super routes à travers les montagnes. Dans ce coin-là, tu peux aller à Banff, tu peux te promener. »
Alexi trouve souvent des vols directs pour moins de 150 $ aller-retour. À un tel prix, ça vaut la peine d'explorer ce beau coin de pays.
Monnaie courante : Dollar canadien
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 14 avril 2023
Orlando
« Tu peux partir de Plattsburgh au lieu de Montréal pour te rendre en Floride. C'est un truc que beaucoup de Québécois ne savent pas. Si tu fais une heure de route à partir du centre-ville de Montréal, tu fais juste dépasser la frontière, […] et tu peux sauver beaucoup pour des vols internes aux États-Unis », conseille Alexi.
En effet, sur sa fiche d'aubaines tirée de sa plateforme, on peut voir qu'un aller-retour en partance de Plattsburgh vers Sanford en Floride peut facilement coûter environ 150 $, soit 69 % moins cher que les vols aller-retour habituels.
Monnaie courante : Dollar américain
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 26 avril 2023
L'Irlande
Le globe-trotteur propose de concorder les aubaines avec des fêtes populaires pour encore plus de plaisir et participer à la culture du pays. Tu pourrais par exemple prendre part au Carnaval de Rio au Brésil ou à la Saint-Patrick en Irlande.
Il a d'ailleurs déniché des vols aller-retour entre Montréal et Dublin, avec une escale à Lisbonne, pour 590 $ pour des dates en décembre 2023 et février 2024. Sur place, tu pourras prendre la route et découvrir les vallées vertes de ce beau pays d'Europe et tous ses trésors.
Monnaie courante : Euro
Pour voir l'aubaine datant du 24 avril 2023