True Patriot Love - July 03, 2026


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


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On this week's episode of the Local Crime Update, host Mike Jesowshek is joined by homicide detective Brady Wedham to discuss the week's crimes across the U.S. and the growing problem of incels.

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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.