True Patriot Love - July 03, 2026


[Sneak Peek] TPL Media Crime Update： Crime On The Rise


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00:00:00.000 We need to keep an eye on our friends, neighbors, and family,
00:00:04.580 people who are starting to profess anger through ideology that doesn't match up.
00:00:12.180 Because in the end, this is what it can lead to.
00:00:14.540 And it made me ask this question, did this man believe in an ideology
00:00:17.420 or did he simply collect enough grievances to justify violence?
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00:00:33.920 I'm Mike.
00:00:34.460 This is your weekly crime update.
00:00:36.900 Joining me this week to talk about the crimes across the nation,
00:00:40.340 Brady Wedham, thanks very much for being here, man.
00:00:42.560 Yeah, thank you for having me, my friend.
00:00:44.140 I love talking about crime.
00:00:46.020 Who doesn't, right?
00:00:46.840 I know it's a tough docket on a Friday,
00:00:48.860 but we make it part of our weekend every weekend
00:00:52.620 just to give an idea of what's been going on across the country.
00:00:56.000 Item number one off the top, of course,
00:00:58.540 the deadly shooting of police in both Toronto and Montreal.
00:01:03.980 This week, a vigil paid to the officer in Toronto
00:01:08.660 and a procession down one of our major highways
00:01:11.620 to the Congress Centre where his life was honoured.
00:01:19.080 But it does kind of do this more than anything else.
00:01:23.020 There's sort of a renewed focus on firearms
00:01:26.260 and what firearms should be banned in this country.
00:01:29.280 Yep.
00:01:30.660 Now, the police haven't officially come out and said it yet,
00:01:32.740 but the pictures of the gunman and the firearm that was laying beside him,
00:01:37.680 apparently it is an SKS, a Russian-made 10-round magazine semi-automatic rifle.
00:01:43.940 That was the one in Montreal.
00:01:45.060 Montreal, yeah.
00:01:46.180 You know, it's interesting.
00:01:47.140 The emerging consensus right now is that this manifesto they left behind,
00:01:52.840 really it wasn't it wasn't really a coherent political document scattered to say the least
00:01:57.880 it was uh more the ravings of sort of a laundry list of complaints that didn't match up uh there
00:02:06.280 wasn't a lot of consistency the ideology doesn't really align here um it seems like more of just
00:02:11.800 an angry angry person uh misogyny anti-capitalism anti-police uh anti-pornography anti-semitic
00:02:20.680 and conspiracy thinking in ways that don't form sort of a consistent ideology and i think the
00:02:27.160 one thing that comes out of this is we need to keep an eye on our friends neighbors and family
00:02:35.560 people who are starting to profess anger through ideology that doesn't match up because in the end
00:02:43.320 this is what it can lead to and it made me ask this question did this man believe in an ideology
00:02:48.040 or did he simply collect enough grievances to justify violence i think the latter is probably
00:02:53.720 the the truer statement um you're seeing a lot of this in young people people my age in their 40s
00:02:59.000 and down uh very angry at the way things are right now there's a lot of things going on globally a
00:03:03.880 lot of things just inside of the country could even be just be in your own your own township
00:03:07.400 and city but there's a lot of people that are very angry right now and i think they're trying
00:03:11.000 to justify their anger right so they're looking at maybe these ideologies don't really line up
00:03:16.200 because they're just trying to get mad at anything they can be mad at i guess it doesn't matter what
00:03:19.240 your political belief system is there's a lot to be mad at no i know but that i mean that's
00:03:23.800 a matter of violence i mean different that's a matter of society trying to help individuals
00:03:29.080 see clear there's i mean yes if all you do is follow the news yeah you know society and
00:03:34.520 humanity has gone through enormous pressure and enormous um you know opposition from
00:03:42.360 the forces around them always whether it was nature or whether it was war whether it was
00:03:49.100 starvation or disease we've made it through as a society as humanity by finding solutions to
00:03:56.400 problems together that we will again in times like this but we need to be reassuring each other
00:04:02.900 and not just giving people the ability to build a laundry list of things that will
00:04:08.520 in the end give them a justification for anything that they do whether it's violence
00:04:14.340 whether it's going online and perpetrating nonsense it's it's really this is i think
00:04:20.720 the calling card on this one for this kind of incel mentality yeah and you're right about
00:04:25.600 saying like like human beings find a way to kind of get through anything and everything right uh
00:04:29.920 we are the diamonds in terms of mammals um we are the hardest uh the hardest surface to break
00:04:35.420 through i'm all for the tigers myself i digress determination is definitely one of our things but
00:04:40.480 like you said if there's a if there's like a woe is me or a lack of hope that can lead to blending
00:04:46.320 a lot of these these problems together and acting out in a violent way which i don't think there's
00:04:51.240 a problem that we have on this planet that should result in us going into an industry you know from
00:04:57.360 what they've said the location that he was in was one of the hearts of the pornography industry
00:05:01.600 uh the locations down in montreal so what does that mean well i if from if you believe some of
00:05:07.720 this manifesto that has been reported it sounds like he had a big problem with that industry
00:05:12.300 and this industry is in that area primarily where this went on well i don't know if it's primarily
00:05:17.020 so was he trying to access one of these places it sounds like it yeah yeah it sounds like it
00:05:22.320 we've seen this before we've seen this in the states right with the luigi and the ceo of the
00:05:27.820 insurance company and things like that this is a this is a movement with youth right it's uh
00:05:33.140 disturbing to no end yeah because like i say some critics of this manifesto will tell you
00:05:39.480 everybody's a critic by the way of it will tell you that it was probably ai generated it's a mess
00:05:45.460 uh in in a moment of you know uh desperate attempt to create some sort of legacy of the need to
00:05:55.500 exercises violence yeah and you can compare it to one of the most you know a manifesto that's
00:06:00.060 been published numerous times and one of the most i guess probably most read manifestos out there
00:06:05.340 ted kaczynski we'll use him for an example the unabomber that was coherent as much as it was
00:06:11.100 wrong he was worried about the techno uh the the techno movement and the tech movement coming in
00:06:16.460 and basically where we're at right now a lot of the stuff that he said in that manifesto is where
00:06:19.820 we're at but it made sense from the beginning to the end in terms of what his ideology he
00:06:24.380 His ideology kept a coherence that, I mean, was the writings of a madman, actually.
00:06:30.840 The writings of a madman, but yet the writings of a Harvard grad.
00:06:35.100 It was like a blend of, you know, there's a thin line between psycho and brilliance, right?
00:06:40.500 Well, let's widen that margin, I think.
00:06:43.520 You know what I mean?
00:06:44.260 I think as we watch our neighbors, friends, and colleagues start to mount these manifestos of discussion with us,
00:06:51.340 you know those are signals that you know they're creating an incoherent justification for some
00:07:00.500 method of thinking yeah if you're hopefully it's not violent if you're phoning a friend or talking
00:07:04.560 to a loved one and you start hearing some of this stuff this isn't the same uh being at a pub in the
00:07:09.440 in the parking lot and hearing this come out of a conversation with a couple soda pops behind you
00:07:14.120 this is a this is something that you can probably catch brady i should take a moment and just say a
00:07:19.020 A lot of the stuff that I've said to you on the phone in traffic
00:07:21.340 on the way into the office needs to be forgiven right now.
00:07:24.260 Okay.
00:07:24.740 Next story, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
00:07:26.340 illegal cigarette trade tied to organized crime.
00:07:29.280 Following Manitoba's record drug investigation,
00:07:33.000 authorities continue to highlight the role of contraband tobacco
00:07:36.580 in financing organized crime.
00:07:39.380 Police say illicit cigarette sales generate enormous profits
00:07:42.180 that are often linked to drug trafficking, weapons offenses,
00:07:45.380 and other criminal enterprises,
00:07:46.400 making the underground tobacco market a growing public safety concern.
00:07:51.320 Well, here we are again.
00:07:52.580 When I was a young lad, I used to hear about the stories
00:07:55.180 with the Montreal tobacco mob
00:07:58.160 and all the issues that were going on then
00:08:00.660 and all of the people that were being attacked
00:08:03.200 on behalf of that group.
00:08:05.440 And it sounds like 30-something years later,
00:08:07.820 we haven't gotten really far away from still...
00:08:09.940 I wonder if we've come back to this.
00:08:11.920 What is going on with tobacco?
00:08:13.360 Well, I have to think that in some ways, this might be indicative that the drug market has fallen off.
00:08:21.400 Fentanyl has probably killed a lot of the drug market.
00:08:24.960 Cannabis is legal.
00:08:26.420 These were two major crime operations that were easy to undertake in a warehouse far away.
00:08:33.400 But this is interesting as well.
00:08:34.920 Look at this.
00:08:35.400 Kingston, Ontario, major contraband tobacco seizure.
00:08:38.780 Police announced a major seizure of approximately 171,000 packs of contraband cigarettes,
00:08:45.640 one of the larger tobacco enforcement actions in eastern Ontario.
00:08:48.980 Investigators say the illegal tobacco market deprives governments of tax revenue
00:08:53.920 while providing significant income for organized crime individuals.
00:09:00.200 There is, and they're not wrong when they say tax revenue.
00:09:03.840 If anybody has ever smoked a pack of cigarettes in the past year here in Canada,
00:09:08.900 the prices of cigarettes are outrageous.
00:09:11.920 And one of the reasons why is maybe it's a deterrent to make you not smoke them,
00:09:15.260 and hats off to that.
00:09:16.780 But a lot of it is because of the taxes.
00:09:18.580 So there's a huge markup on packs of cigarettes, right?
00:09:21.700 It doesn't cost much to produce a pack of cigarettes.
00:09:23.720 It doesn't cost much to produce it off the line.
00:09:26.640 But it costs a lot to buy it as a consumer.
00:09:29.200 Okay, well, let's compare.
00:09:29.660 A pack of contraband cigarettes is how much?
00:09:32.420 Roughly $5 to $6, maybe $7?
00:09:35.160 $3 to $11.
00:09:36.520 $3 to $11.
00:09:37.680 And how much is a government taxed and officiated pack of cigarettes?
00:09:43.720 Roughly, I think right now in most provinces, $17 to $24.
00:09:49.040 That's a lot.
00:09:50.720 It's a big markup.
00:09:51.480 That's a huge amount of markup without the tax man involved.
00:09:54.740 Let's continue on.
00:09:56.120 Brandon, Manitoba.
00:09:57.280 Being there, Traffic Stop uncovers drug analytics.
00:10:02.420 We'll see you next time.