The size of Canada’s illicit tobacco market is contested and the best-known share figures are industry-commissioned; the CRA’s newest estimate is about $486M in unpaid federal excise for tax year 2014. Named cases, police allegations, and what no court has decided.

Vehicle theft fell on all three theft series published for 2025, yet none of the sources cited here gives how much is organized or exported. Attempted export is documented in port recoveries; court outcomes are few. What is documented, what police allege, what is not established.

Canadian courts and governments have documented specific cases in which groups called triads are named, but the official record rarely uses the word. A profile of the Lai immigration case, Sidewinder, E-Pirate, Tse Chi Lop and who used each label.

Salvatore Montagna, whom the FBI once described as acting boss of New York’s Bonanno family, was shot near Montreal in November 2011. Raynald Desjardins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in the case and got 14 years. What courts found and what was alleged.

The Indian Posse, founded in Winnipeg’s North End in 1988 by most sources, and the Manitoba Warriors, whose 1998 case was the first major test of Canada’s anti-gang law, are profiled here: the Wolfe brothers, R. v. Pangman, later police projects and what courts have found.

A Montreal-area man arrested in November 2025 on a U.S. extradition request. U.S. prosecutors allege he acted as a hired hitman who facilitated the Wedding network’s murder of an FBI informant in Colombia. He has not been convicted in that case.

The full record of B.C.’s Brothers Keepers: Gavin Grewal and the founding, the Kang split, the CFSEU-BC task force, the Dhaliwal brothers, Project Gaslight, Naseem Mohammed, and the 2026 Whistler murder convictions.

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Organization Profile Hells Angels Support Clubs in Canada The Hells Angels have roughly forty chapters in this country. In British Columbia alone they have around thirty clubs beneath them — clubs with their own names, their own patches and their own clubhouses, whose members do the selling, the collecting…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Subject Profile Frédéric Lavoie The Wolfpack Alliance’s Montreal cocaine pipeline ran through two men who answered directly to Larry Amero and Rabih Alkhalil — Frédéric Lavoie was one of them. When the November 2012 raid that dismantled the network came down, Lavoie ran instead of turning himself in. He…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Organization Profile The Bacon Brothers Three brothers from an ordinary Abbotsford household who came to be seen by police as the public face of the Red Scorpions — one murdered in daylight outside a Kelowna hotel, one convicted of orchestrating B.C.’s deadliest gangland massacre, one still turning up in…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Subject Profile Frédérick Silva A freelance hitman who killed for the Mafia, the Hells Angels, and street gangs alike — without belonging to any of them — Frédérick Silva ordered a $100,000 contract on the reporter covering his own murder trial, then quietly cancelled it. Three years later, from…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Subject Profile Shane Kenneth “Wheels” Maloney A paraplegic since a 1997 accident, Shane Maloney became a high-ranking figure in Montreal’s West End Gang and one of the Wolfpack’s key operational links — and when police finally raided his weapons cache in 2012, they found 1,475 sticks of dynamite, two…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Subject Profile Salvatore Cazzetta He started Quebec’s bloodiest gang war by refusing to join the Hells Angels — then, after fourteen years, three stays of proceedings and a decade running the club he once went to war against, he ended up its most influential member in the province. Very…

Gangland Files Organized Crime Intelligence ◆ Subject Profile Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil Convicted of first-degree murder twice, in two different provinces, over two different killings — and once while he was already a fugitive, having cut his way out of a B.C. jail with a plasma torch. Three years on Canada’s most-wanted list ended in Doha…