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VOL 25 - ISSUE 45
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2025
Indian student shot dead near University of Toronto
Judge reduces sex criminal's jail time because of his race
Toronto police identified the victim of a shooting Tuesday near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC). In a news release Wednesday, the Toronto Police Service said 20-year-old Shivank Avasthi is the city's 41st homicide victim of the year. Officers were called to the area of Highland Creek Trail and Old Kingston Road for unknown trouble at approximately 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Toronto police said Wednesday. Upon arrival, Toronto police found a victim with a gunshot wound. Avasthi was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Wednesday's release. Toronto police said the suspect fled the area prior to police arrival. No suspect description has been released.
A former university football player who sexually assaulted two women has been sentenced to just two years in prison because he is black and was feeling intense pressure around the time of the attacks, the judge said. Omogbolahan Jegede, 25, had choked one of the women almost into unconsciousness. “It should be noted that but, for the contents of the Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA), the pre-sentence report and all the mitigating factors surrounding Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede, this sentence would have been much higher,” Justice Frank Hoskins said in his Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision on Wednesday. The women were attacked in residences at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish,
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N.S., in 2022 and 2023. One woman testified that Jegede choked her; one woman was forced to perform oral sex. Both women said they were physically dominated by Jegede, who is much larger than they are. Continued on Page 9...
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Home sales dipped in November, with 'holding pattern' expected to continue into 2026 Canada’s housing market took a modest step back in November, as national home sales declined slightly and prices softened following several months of relative stability. The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales recorded over Canadian MLS Systems fell 0.6% month over month in November. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) activity came in 10.7% below November 2024, suggesting demand remains uneven as the market heads toward year-end.
“At this point it’s looking like the mid-year rally in housing demand has veered into more of a holding pattern heading into 2026. Continued on Page 10...
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'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in BC Decades ago one of B.C.'s top judges described the tension between the concept of Aboriginal title and the reality of private property ownership in British Columbia as a "cloud." Once on the "far horizon," then-B.C. Appeal Court Justice Mary Southin said legal questions about the status of
Another Hindu lynched in Bangladesh
title on properties ranging from ranches to houses to Vancouver office towers had grown from the size of "a child's hand" to "lower over the whole of the Province." Last week, just as Southin predicted it eventually would, the "cloud" touched down in Richmond. Continued on Page 10...
A fresh lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh has sharpened concerns over minority safety in the country, the killing coming just a day ahead of the high-profile return of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman and former PM Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman after more than 17 years in self-exile. Local media reported that Amrit Mondal, alias Samrat (29), a member of the Hindu minority community, was beaten to death by a mob late on Wednesday night in Pangsha Upazila of Rajbari district. The killing adds to a growing list of mob violence incidents amid a volatile political climate and sustained unrest following last year’s collapse of the Sheikh Hasina government. Continued on Page 12...