Home-Grown Ideological Terrorism

Montreal police take cover during the shooting. Photograph: Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press/AP

 

"Behind the uniform was an exceptional and a dedicated police officer, a loyal friend, a loving partner, and an extraordinary father. Today, he leaves behind a pregnant partner who was preparing to build a future with him, and a young child of only 3 years old who will grow up without his father."

"[...While no amount of money can fill this immense void [it hopes to] ease the burden now on [Benredouane's] family and offer some support during this heartbreaking ordeal."

"It is with immense sadness and heavy hearts that we launch this fundraising campaign to support the family of our friend, colleague, and brother-in-arms who tragically died in the line of duty."

Montreal Police Brotherhood, GoFundMe campaign 

Residents of the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood are mourning the death of 34-year-old Montreal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane who was killed in a shooting Monday. A civilian and the suspect also died that day.  CBC

 

"Born in Lebanon, Michel eventually made his home in Israel before settling in Montreal. He remained deeply devoted to Israel throughout his life, maintaining close ties to his children and family there. Almost every year on the anniversary of his father's death he travelled to Israel."

"It is therefore especially heartbreaking that violence would ultimately claim Michel's own life here in Montreal. Having already borne the pain of losing loved ones to conflict overseas, he himself became the victim of senseless violence in the city he called home. His passing is a reminder that hatred, wherever it appears, knows no borders and spares no innocent."

Beryl P. Wajsman, president, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal

Sixty-eight-year-old Michel Mizrahi is being remembered as a generous and committed community member, especially at his synagogue in a Montreal suburb. Mizrahi was killed Monday in the shooting that also took the life of a Montreal police officer.  CBC

 

Michel Mizrahi, 68, a Montreal businessman, was the lone civilian killed by a gunman who suddenly appeared Monday morning in a newly developed commercial hub in Cote-des-Neiges, central Montreal, an area known as a Jewish district. The shooter, dressed in military fatigues and carrying a long gun, opened fire, shooting in all directions, while the busy thoroughfare quickly relinquished its many passerby to a desperate rush to shelter from the gunfire. A 911 call to police saw a response within minutes, police squads on the scene swiftly become the target of the shooter.

 

As a passerby, Mr. Mizrahi was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Born in Lebanon, he was remembered by those who knew him well, as a kind and gentle man. A man who had suffered his own losses in the near past, when his father was killed in a missile attack during the Gulf War, in 1991, in Israel. Another staggering blow arrived on the news that one of his siblings' child had been slaughtered on October 7, 2023 at the Nova music festival during the Palestinian invasion comprised of thousands of terrorists, led by Hamas.

 

The police officer victimized by the gunman was 34 years of age, Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, a member of the Montreal Police Force since 2021. Not scheduled to work on Monday, he had decided to take an overtime shift. Benredouane went to school in the neighbourhood where he was killed. "You have someone that grew up in the neighbourhood and decided to serve his community in the way that he did, by ultimately losing his life. It was an act of heroism that I can't highlight further",  said Notre-Dame-deGrae borough Mayor Stephanie Valenzuela.

 

Montreal shooting leaves three dead including a police officer – video

Eyewitness videos posted to social media showed one police officer shot, as another, female officer crouched behind a waist-level concrete planter, exchanging fire with a man in camouflage. Another video showed the downed officer rolling on his back, then his stomach, in an effort to crawl away from the direct fire, where at least 30 shots were later documented. That officer in the end, died of his wounds; Mohamed Lamine Benredouane. And with him, Michel Mizrahi who had been standing beside the female officer who was also shot in the exchange, but survived her wounds in hospital.

 

The attack had taken place at the Hilton Hotel on the corner of De Courtrai and Trans Island avenues. On the arrival of police a lockdown was ordered, people warned to remain in their apartments, doors locked, nearby stores with shoppers the same. Police were uncertain whether there was a lone shooter, or another with him close by. The lockdown with people sheltering in place lasted in fear and confusion for hours before it was lifted with the assurance that one shooter only was involved, and he had been lethally shot by police at the scene.

 

Seth Hatfield, 25 years of age, from Alberta who had attended Lethbridge University, recognized as an outstanding student, who had set out to put into action a plan of vengeance against capitalists, the elite, and Zionists and Jews who were behind all manner of nefarious social constructs he set out in a lengthy manifesto which also extolled the virtues of communism and the evils of "high capitalist" societies, urging readers of his screed who shared his grievances to "Be unflinching, go forth, and KILL THEM ALL!"

 

The document this class-action terrorist left behind listed "valid potential class A targets", that included international real-estate brokerages, private equity firms, elite bankers and politicians, influential Zionists, private health and oil CEOs, plastic surgeons, cryptocurrency leaders, the headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism (IBM, Microsoft, Boeing) and "pick-up artists", as well as pornographers. Among other targets: "the headquarters of international pornography companies", and those who "actively promote pornography to the public".

 

Montreal police work the scene of a shooting, June 22, 2026. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV / CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP

  

Adolescent Gender Identity/Dysphoria

"These findings support that within a clinical context involving comprehensive psychosocial assessment and support, gender identity among adolescents is highly stable, and rates of reidentification with birth-assigned gender and cessation of [gender-affirming hormones] are low."

"Despite there being broad consensus among major medical organizations about the necessity of gender-affirming care, some government bodies continue to raise questions a bout access to gender-affirming care."

Recently-published Canadian study    Journal of Adolescent Health

 

"The study also found that no one who initially identified as non-binary returned to a binary gender aligned with their birth sex."

"For many youth, access to appropriate care is associated with improved well-being and mental-health outcomes."

"Other research has also reported low rates of detransition and treatment discontinuation, although findings vary depending on the population studied."

Daniel Metzger, paediatric endocrinologist, B.C. Children's Hospital, report first-author

 

"It's an open question whether the detransition rate of someone who started their transition in 2012 is going to be the same rate as someone who started their transition in 2020 or 2022."

"[The paper suggests that appropriately selected youth who undergo comprehensive holistic assessments] are likely to at least be persistent in the short- to medium-term."

"It could be that many of them are continuing to do great and if we reached out to them today, in 2025, they'd say; 'Hey, I'm doing great. Leave me alone'."

"Or we could reach out and they say, 'I desisted when I was 22'. We don't know. And we can't tell from this data." 

Dr. Laura Targownik, physician-scientist, professor of medicine, University of Toronto 

New Study Shows Trans Youth Are Extremely Unlikely to Detransition   them.us

 

Only 2.9 percent of teens -- in a social period of rapid gender-affirming medical interventions -- referred to one of four specialized pediatric gender clinics, changed back to their original gender identity; detransitioned, over a median followup study of 2.4 years. The study authors felt the findings suggest stability in teen gender identity where their study appears to prove that actual detransitioning is 'uncommon'. The results of their study, they wrote "may offer reassurance to those concerned that adolescents are too  young to understand their gender identity or make decisions about medical transition".

 

As with any scientific study addressing controversial issues, critics find the study has the effect of inflating persistence while presenting a skewed picture, taking into regard the short followup window to detect a verifiable transition rate. Moreover, the study's structure leaves the authors incapable of asserting with any certainty what occurred when youth moved from adolescence into adulthood, and how that maturation affects their identity perception at that juncture.

 

The study encompassed children between between the years 2012 and 2017 prior to the more recent spike in gender dysphoria cases, alongside changing demographics. At the present time, predominantly biological females, many with accompanying complex mental health problems, many identifying as non-binary, are being seen by doctors. "Considerable uncertainty" remains of benefits of gender treatment for children, two recent Canadian studies concluded. 

 

The number of children and teens seeking gender-affirming care almost tripled in Canada and the U.S. between 2017 and 2020, the study's authors note. Photo by Adobe Stock

 

The latest study research team involved reviewing 445 teens diagnosed with gender dysphoria and seen at gender clinics in Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Halifax -- of which 74 percent were born female, most between the ages of 13 and 18 at time of referral, while the mean age of beginning gender-affirming hormone treatment was just over 16 years of age. At each visit, every six months, the teens were questioned about their gender identity and whether hormone use was being continued. 

 

Researchers looked at data in the youths' medical records between 2018 and 2020. There ensued at least one year of followup after each gender clinic visit. 95 percent -- 421 of the 445 -- continued with their presenting gender identity or re-identified as nonbinary: "from initial referral to end of the observation period". Of the 353 adolescents who began gender-affirming hormones, only one percent stopped taking them. Of the 24 that changed gender identity, 13 "returned to gender identity typically aligned with sex at birth".

 

Doctors have been sued by some detransitioners with the allegation that their wish for extreme interventions had never been challenged, nor were alternative treatments properly discussed. Detransitioners, surveys have found, may sometimes feel reluctant to inform their doctors, concerned they would waste people's time, even knowing that something was not quite right. Detransition "is very unlikely to occur even after 10 or more years identifying with [a] gender identity different than the identity aligned with birth sex", pointed out Dr. Lawson. 

 

Parents of transgender children and other supporters of transgender rights gather in an outdoor rotunda in Austin, Texas, to speak about transgender legislation being considered in the state House and Senate, on April 14, 2021.   Eric Gay / AP file

 

"I don't expect the detransition rate at a median two years to be terribly high, but if you follow these patients for five years, or 10 years, you might have a clearer picture."

"[The finding that most youth prescribed hormones] does provide some reassurance that they're not just starting patients on hormones and they're desisting right away."

"But [the researchers] don't talk about, were these patients seeing psychiatrists? Were they seen for other problems? Were they getting admitted to hospital for mental-health decompensation?"

"They're basically using persistence as a proxy for, 'Well, they're doing OK enough that they didn't have to abandon their transition or that their clinicians didn't feel that they were suffering from such a grievous harm that it had to be stopped."

Dr. Laura Targownik, transgender woman 

 

"Individuals who do not support gender-affirming medical care for adolescents are likely to look for reasons that might discount the findings of our study and publication."

"However, as principal investigator of this study, I can assure you that our study's methodology is extremely sound."

Senior study author Dr. Margaret Lawson, scientist emeritus, CHEO Research Institute 

 

World War I With Drones

"Four years since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia still occupies roughly 20 percent of the country after gaining almost five thousand square kilometers of territory in 2025." 

"Russia continues to bombard Ukrainian cities, while Ukraine maintains drone attacks on Russian oil infrastructure and military sites."

"Since January 2022, Ukraine has received about $188 billion in aid from the United States and $197 billion from the European Union."

"Fighting and air strikes have inflicted nearly 56,000 civilian casualties, while 3.7 million people are internally displaced, and 5.9 million are registered as refugees. 10.8 million people need humanitarian assistance."

Global Conflict Tracker 

 

"In many respects, this war in Ukraine is the one that most closely resembles World War I."

"[In both wars it was the intensity of firepower that forced armies to turn to trenches]: You bury yourself to protect yourself."
Michel Goya, former French colonel, historian 

People visit the graves of their relatives, who were killed during Russia's attack on Ukraine, as a large-scale light installation illuminates the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Feb. 23, 2026, marking the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion. (Roman Baluk/Reuters)

 

The heavy casualty counts and brutal infantry assaults of the ongoing war in Ukraine strikes some war historian as comparable to conflict conditions experienced during World War I. By June 11, the war in Ukraine -- Vladimir Putin's 'special military operation' -- saw a point in time where it has been prolonged for four years and three months, its duration outlasting World War I's epic conflict. 

 

Mr. Putin's expectation that his large operational full-on incursion of February 2022 would swiftly see Ukraine surrendering, his goal accomplished in a mere matter of months if not weeks. The Ukrainian counter offensive which saw Russia effectively opposed and the conflict became a war of attrition, it would have seemed inconceivable to any strategists, much less servicemen fighting for their lives on either side of the hostilities that the war would drag on for so many weeks, months and years. 

 

Yet the war has a life of its own, reflecting the level of determination on both sides; Moscow's to achieve its objective; Kyiv to sustain its sovereign rights and push its aggressor entirely out of its geography, including from Crimea and Donetsk, both of which fell to Russia in 2014. 

 

Ukrainian servicemen of the 33rd separate assault regiment participate in a training at an undisclosed location in Zaporizhzhia region on Jan. 30, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images

 

Recent polls indicate that almost fifty percent of Ukrainians feel the war will not end before 2027. Among Ukrainians many are prepared to argue that the war's beginning in reality was 2014 when Russian troops with the assistance of Russian-Ukrainian rebels swept Crimea to seize it for Greater Russia, complementing Vladimir Putin's yearning for the days of firm control of eastern Europe during the Soviet Union, and he a modern-day Czar. 

 

According to Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak, the conflict that Russia imposed upon Ukraine will rank in historical accounts as among the most consequential in modern European history. Alluding to both wars, having altered geopolitics in Europe through the reshaping of military alliances, driving a feverish defense buildup through NATO, unseen since the end of the Cold War. 

 

The war in Ukraine has now exceeded the first world war in duration. And while the comparison between these two conflicts is imperfect, it is becoming difficult to ignore.

 

 A century earlier, point out military analysts, it was the new technologies of warplanes and tanks that drove the fighting antagonists, while today advances in unmanned aerial war machines have taken centre stage in an increasingly brutal onslaught against humans more attuned to conventional warfare. As in 1914, so too in 2024, where a frozen front line maintains a status quo and where neither attacker nor defender can claim the upper hand. 

 

Historians see World War I trench warfare repeated in the trenches and bunkers that Ukrainian soldiers have been using where assaults with artillery barrages followed by storming enemy trenches by infantry squads were the elemental formulaic schemes brought to play in the early years of the current war, echoing what had been current a hundred years earlier. 

 

Once drones were brought into play, trench-like networks became outdated as unsafe, where drones monitored the battlefield, striking with precision greater than that of artillery shells. Survival now depends on smaller, more discreet and deeper trenches to outfox the drones; shelters now house a handful of soldiers in dugouts. As for the fearsome tanks of WWI, they have become targets for drones, and have been largely retired. 

 

According to Admiral Pierre Vandier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in NATO, the Ukrainian front has been lethalized by drones. And the strategy that Ukraine relies upon to use drones to strike deep into Russia to hit its oil assets, strikes at its very economy which funds Putin's special military operation. The battlefield has been flooded with small attack drones of Ukrainian design and forward technology. "This is World War I, but with drones", said historian Yaroslav Hrytsak.  

 

Disregard For The Rule of Law

"It's a symbol of the short-sighted damage that this administration is doing to the world's most important bilateral trading relationship."

"Businesses in Ontario are angry. My American business friends and partners, they say the same thing. They're angry about unacceptable delays in the opening of infrastructure that is essential to their economy and to ours."

"It yet again appears the private interest is being prioritized over the public interest of both 
Americans and Canadians."

"What will be really sad here is if there is any significant delay in getting this infrastructure open at the exact time that businesses in both countries are struggling and trying to invest in their own growth." 

Daniel Tisch, president, Ontario chamber of Commerce

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is silhouetted against an orange sky over the Detroit River between Windsor and Detroit. (Pratyush Dayal/CBC)

 

Ottawa and Michigan signed an agreement in 2012 over plans to build a new bridge linking Michigan with Ontario for transport purposes. It was mutually agreed that Canada would have sole responsibility for the design, construction and financing of the project, the new international trade crossing bridge to be named in memory of storied Canadian hockey player Gordie Howe. Toll revenues from the Gordie Howe International Bridge, it was agreed, would be evenly shared between Canada and the State of Michigan, once Canada had recovered construction costs through initial revenues.

 

The bridge's time had come. The existing bridge, the almost-century-old Ambassador Bridge, no longer has the capacity to handle the volume of trade between Canada and the U.S. "If you think about all the automotive parts that come from Canadian plants, the border should not be a bottleneck in the transportation process", explained supply chain expert Professor Fraser Johnson of the Ivey Business School, Western University. 

 

The Ambassador Bridge stretches between Windsor, Ont. and Detroit. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)

 

Each day, the Ambassador Bridge sees over $390 million of trade passing through between the two trading partners, which represents 26 percent of Canadian exports by road, according to Transport Canada's 2021 data. Built in 1929, the bridge lacks the handling capacity relative to the volume of trade between Canada and the United States. "Everybody gets hurt whenever there's a disruption" of the supply chain that links Windsor and Detroit, reflecting the level of integration, remarked mechanical engineering professor Peter Frise at the University of Windsor.

 

Truckers have good reason to look forward to new efficiencies with the bridge opening, alleviating congestion and diverting Ontario's Highway 401 and Interstate 75 heavy truck traffic away from city streets in Windsor. Truckers and businesses making use of the existing corridor means higher toll costs for each day of delay, time lost in congestion on the limited four-lane width of the Ambassador Bridge. Bridge crews place orange traffic cones by hand to change traffic direction before the evening traffic rush.

 

The six-lane deck of the Gordie Howe International Bridge stretches across the Detroit River between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit. A federal briefing note obtained by CBC News says the crossing has been 'essentially complete' since February. (Submitted by the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority)

 

A level of frustrated controversy erupted in February when Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the bridge would not be opened until the U.S. was "fully compensated". Just a week ago, Michigan Republican House Speaker Matt Hall stated that the U.S. should receive half of the new bridge's toll revenue, presumably even before Canada recouped the $6.4 billion it spend building the bridge. Leading Daniel Tisch to observe this would be a "disregard for the rule of law" to place an agreement already signed back on the table.

 

The Ambassador Bridge owners, the Moroun family, spent years through lawsuits fighting the construction of another bridge to take traffic between the two countries, which would disturb their monopoly. They had been major contributors to President Trump's election campaign, and had his ear, lobbying for some kind of intervention. And so, Mr. Trump listened, and he made his position known, evidently believing that Canada owed the U.S. something for having built a bridge with Canadian tax funding, as though this entitles him to belittle the enterprise and extract financial concessions over an imagined imbalance. 

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said Canada would not be permitted to proceed with the Gordie Howe International Bridge 'unless America got a piece of it, too,' despite the bridge being financed and built by Canada. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

 

The Endless Flywheel of Nature's Designs

"[Advances made in modeling these tides over the last 15 years have enabled the study's authors to show that] the dissipation is lower than previously expected."

"A better understanding of tidal physics and the most advanced constraints we have on mass loss allow us to say that -- in the current state of knowledge -- Earth could move away from the Sun, contrary to what was predicted before."

Stephane Mathis, astrophysicist, Paris-Saclay centre, France 

 

"Earth's fate depends on a delicate balance between these two effects [increased size of sun's gravitational force pulling Earth closer to the Sun, compounded by oceanic tidal energy pushing the Moon further from Earth]."

"If tidal interactions predominate, Earth is engulfed by the sun. If the sun's mass loss predominates, Earth escapes into an orbit larger than the radius of its star." 

Mats Esseldeurs, astrophysicist, University of Leuven, Belgium 

A new lease of life: Our planet may escape a fatal spiral into the exploding fireball of the Sun. Phys.Org

 

Up to the present time, and until the publication of a study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, of which Mats Esseldeurs was lead author, it was thought among astrophysicists that Earth's distant fate into the far future would be its absorption into the sun and thus complete annihilation. An almost-similar fate that has obliterated many stars in the firmament of the heavens over millions of years, as their stars became giants, then red dwarfs and then black holes vacuuming all that surrounded them into the nothingness of their depths. 

 

As huge as our sun is in comparison to the planets in its orbit, its size does not qualify it in that direction. It will ultimately, in the space of five billion years, become a white dwarf, a fireball of a dying star which it was assumed would consume Earth in its quest for energy to sustain itself before expiring. First the Sun must burn through all the hydrogen in its core, following which two immense expansion phases occur; becoming a red giant, and then an AGB star when it has spent all its helium.

 

An Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) star is a late stage in the evolution of low-to-intermediate mass stars (about 0.8 to 8 times the mass of the Sun). It represents the final bloated phase of a star's life before it sheds its outer layers and collapses into a dense white dwarf.

 

Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a black hole.   NASA

 

As the Sun expands there will be significant effects seen on Earth as the Sun's increasing gravitational forces pull the Earth toward it. This force creates the push and pull of ocean tides on the Earth, energy from which dissipates at the ocean bottoms, which in turn slows Earth's rotation, while gradually moving the Moon further from Earth.  Intense tidal waves stir within the Sun as it expands and its blistering surface moves closer to Earth. It is when those tides dissipate that Earth would be pulled into the Sun's dying embrace.  

 

On the other hand, due to stellar wind, the growing Sun will also lose much of its mass, pushing planet Earth further distant. The new calculations reached by the authors of the newly-published study, places the initial hypothesis of the Earth being swallowed by the dying Sun in question. These are calculations reliant on relatively simple descriptions of tidal dissipation within giant stars. 

 

The study's authors took advantage of advances in modelling tides over the last 15 years to demonstrate "the dissipation is lower than previously expected", as explained by Dr. Mathis of the CEA Paris-Saclay centre. Mars is also affected by escaping, like Earth a death spiral into the Sun, according to the new modelling. Mercury and Venus, closest to the Sun, are less fortunate. Their fate will be that the expanding fireball will inexorably swallow them both. 

 

Of course, nature's plans can be inscrutable, and even while scientists feel they have achieved a fuller understanding of her formulated designs and the unfolding of the universe as it continues to age into eternity, new discoveries will emerge that will add layers on to what has already been surmised, hypothesized, synthesized and 'proven'. None of us, regardless, need spend sleepless nights concerned over how our lives will change as these forces of nature unfold, other than to marvel at the wonders of a universe that is vast and for the most part unknowable. 

 

A view of the sunrise from Earth's horizon.    Zelch Csaba/Pexels

 

 

Indigenous Sentencing Reports

"[Dennis] inflicted the worst form of violence on an Indigenous woman and young man and tore apart an Indigenous family."

"Mr. Dennis's wife and son should have been safe in their home and protected by Mr. Dennis as a husband and father."

"Instead, he put them to a violent death. The devastation from his actions goes far beyond that. He deprived his children of a mother and a brother."

"He deprived Dorian's partner of a husband and their son of a father." 

Justice Simon Coval, British Columbia Supreme Court

File photo of Tsay Keh Dene First Nation courtesy of Wikipedia

 

A member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, comprised of around 235 members, Orlan Marcel Dennis in 2024 shot his wife and teenage son to death. His sentencing hearing took place recently, after the man's personal history had been studied through a mandatory Indigenous Sentencing report. Dennis's wife and daughters had suffered years of violent assaults from the husband and father who was doubly addicted -- both to alcohol and to drugs. When the reviews were complete and presented to the court, they influenced the sitting justice to the extent that he was convinced the double murderer's sentence could be adjusted in his favour.

 

The sentence was for a ten-year incarceration, and it was adjusted to enable Orlan Marcel Dennis to apply for early parole prior to completion of his already-lenient-for-the-crime prison sentence. Judge Coval had made use of an Indigenous sentencing report in arriving at his sentencing decision. He read in the report that Dennis claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a member of his Indigenous reserve as a youngster. At age seven he was placed in foster care. One of his brothers had died violently; his sister and cousin from drug overdoses.

 

In its decision-making over the gruesome details of the double murder, the court relied on "the connection between Mr. Dennis's crimes and the Indigenous sentencing factors present in his upbringing", while looking to spare the family of the afflicted the additional emotional strain of a trial, making note of a submission by both the Crown and defence that one of Dennis's sons "need not testify about the horrific events which he witnessed" in the family home during his father's psychotic act of double murder.

 

The courthouse in Prince George, B.C. where an Indigenous man was only sentenced to the minimum for second-degree murder despite the 'horrific' murder of his wife and son. (Photo credit: Government of B.C.)

 

"[Both Denis's parents were residential school survivors and he] grew up poor in a remote environment of violence and drug and alcohol abuse."

Justice Simon Coval 

Initially admitting that he killed his wife and son, pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in 2024, he attempted to withdraw that plea, arguing the defence of intoxication in an effort to disown intent required for a murder conviction. That attempt was lost before the B.C. Supreme Court. The original plea carries a minimum 10 years' sentence before parole application can be entertained. The judge and Crown attorney noted at the sentencing that it "is materially below the normal range for cases with such extreme circumstances as this". 

 

Several family members had assembled at the Dennis home for dinner on April 9, 2024 when Orlan and his brother Tony began arguing. Orlan left the house, later to return, when he and Darlene began arguing, and he accused her of having relations with another man. He retrieved a .22-calibre rifle from their bedroom gun safe, returned to the living room and shot his wife directly in her face. Dorian, downstairs, heard the gunshot, and Orlan shot his son as he came up the stairs.

 

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Marshall, another son, exited his bedroom and saw Dorian covered in blood at the bottom of the stairs. Helping Dorian to the stairs leading to the basement back door, and finding it wouldn't open, he left his brother, escaped through his bedroom window and ran to his grandmother's house across the street to call police. Orlan, meanwhile left his house and approached his mother's house with the gun and when police arrived they found him on the steps and informed him he was under arrest, drop the gun, but he refused.   

"He was waving the rifle frantically, trying to get inside [his mother's home]. He was swearing and clearly intoxicated, slurring his words and staggering."

"He told the crisis negotiator that he had killed his wife and son. He said they were planning to kill him, and that his wife was cheating on him."

"He said he did not mean to do that to his son, but Dorian came up on him too fast and by the time he realized it was him, it was too late." 

Sentencing decision facts  

When Orlan was permitted to enter his mother's home, one police officer on guard, others went to the Dennis home where Darlene and Dorian's bodies lay. A standoff ensued between Orlan and police for several hours until an RCMP crisis negotiator called the house and Orlan responded. Eventually police forced Orlan out with tear gas, and as he emerged with the loaded rifle, police shot him in the hip and arm, and arrested the man.

 

Although Judge Coval made note of the fact that Dennis had a lengthy criminal record that included convictions for multiple assaults against his wife and daughters, he took into account the sentencing report that made mention of depression, anxiety and possible fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Also noted were family deaths and a support group closing during OVID-19. "As a result of all, [Dennis] stopped working and turned to drugs". And that was good enough for the judge, as he 'adjusted' the severity of the sentence. 

 

In a sentencing decision made public this week, a B.C. Supreme Court sentenced a Tsay Keh Dene man to 'life in prison' after he pleaded guilty to killing his wife and son in April 2024. (Peter Scobie/CBC)

 

Criminally Enterprising Middle Easterners in Canada

"This operation involved non-Indigenous criminal networks exploiting Indigenous lands, with profits that did not benefit our community."

"Criminal activity of this nature does not reflect our values, and we will continue to work alongside our partners to take action against criminal activity that undermines the integrity of our territory."

Six Nations Police chief Darren Montour 

Illegal tobacco manufacturing facility in Six Nations of the Grand River territory. OPP

 

 A bootleg cigarette plant, staffed by thirteen people identified as foreign nationals was raided and shut down on a First Nation reserve where the enterprise was operated by non-Indigenous criminal networks who exploited the Indigenous setting as a means to shield their activities from police scrutiny. Ironically, the criminal enterprise was operated by several Middle Eastern men, resident in Hamilton, Ontario, close by the Six Nations of the Grand River territory in southern Ontario.

 

Infamously, there was chaotic tumult in Canada that arose over reaction among Canadians originating from the Middle East, particularly Palestinians when they took to the streets of Canadian cities condemning Israel for 'genocide' as it reacted to a Palestinian terrorist invasion of southern Israel when thousands of Palestinians went on a large-scale huntdown of Israeli civilians in farming towns and villages close to the Gaza border in a planned exercise of sadistic savagery that included mass rape, mutilation, murder and hostage-taking.

 

The Israeli response to the mass atrocity -- which took over 1,200 Israeli lives and the kidnapping of over 250 Jewish infants, children, elderly, women and men, was to invade Gaza, ruled by Hamas which had led the orchestration of bloodletting, joyously recording their atrocities to be posted on social media --  led to an immediate internationl Palestinian-orchestrated public relations push to portray Palestinians as victims of Israeli aggression and 'occupation'. 

 

To ingratiate themselves with 'progressive' left-wing Canadians, Palestinians and their supporters took to portraying themselves as people indigenous to 'Palestine', as opposed to Jews reclaiming their authentic indigenous ancestral land. Making comparison to aggrieved First Nations whom European colonialism had victimized in settling themselves on already-occupied land that became Canada, the anti-Israel, antisemitic link to Indigenous Canadians forged a partnership in opposing the very existence of the Jewish state. 

 

A handgun seized from a contraband tobacco manufacturing facility in Six Nations on June 11, 2026. (Source: OPP)

 

Working in tandem, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Six Nations Police Service seized five commercial-sized cigarette manufacturing machinery, a handgun and tobacco products holding an estimated street value of over $10 million. Over 40,000 kilograms of contraband tobacco and 300 kilograms of shisha tobacco -- typically made use of with a hookah or water pipe -- were seized altogether.

 

An operation named Project TRACK, that led to the raid was initiated when the Six Nations police requested support from the OPP when their own investigation revealed suspicious activity on the reserve. Police soon discovered that profits which the illegal tobacco production generated were channelled toward a criminal enterprise having nothing to do with the reserve itself, other than its illegal encroachment on reserve property. 

 

Following the enforced search warrants at a manufacturing facility of some considerable size at the Six Nations reserve, a heavy police presence was manifested. A home in Hamilton was also raided. Three stolen vehicles, a truck, $25,000 in Canadian currency, cellphones, assorted electronics and packaging material were seized as well. 

 

Boxes of contraband tobacco found inside a Six Nations facility on June 11, 2026. (Source: OPP)

 

Two men resident in Hamilton were arrested and charged with trafficking contraband tobacco, possession of tobacco manufacturing equipment, manufacturing tobacco products without a licence, and unlawful possession or sale of tobacco products. The men were identified by police as Andrew Besam Hadaddin, 34, and Mustafa Jaber, 45. 

 

As for the foreign nationals discovered when the facility was raided by police -- the thirteen individuals who were working at the factory -- Canada Border Services Agency officers were called in to deal with their presence. The operation has not been concluded with this raid, but remains an ongoing concern.  It would certainly be interesting to learn through that ongoing investigation whether the profits gained in this illegal operation ended up in the hands of terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon.

"This investigation highlights the significant role criminal networks play in the manufacturing and distribution of contraband tobacco in Ontario."

"These illegal operations not only undermine public safety but also exploit communities for profit."

"Through strong collaboration with our partners, we remain committed to disrupting these networks and holding those responsible accountable."

OPP Chief Superintendent Mike Stoddart of the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau