Fergus driver crashes into a ditch, charged with impaired and dangerous driving
Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police and other first responders were called to First Line in Elora on Tuesday around 12:30 p.m.
Crews extracted two people from the vehicle and took them to hospital with minor injuries.
The driver was charged with operation while impaired and dangerous driving.
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Dozens more alleged victims come forward as Brampton man accused in real estate fraud faces new charges
Social Sharing A Brampton man accused of defrauding more than a dozen would-be homeowners is now facing additional criminal charges, while a civil lawyer says dozens more alleged victims have recently come forward claiming they were also defrauded. Moiz Kunwar, 28, is accused of taking deposits for pre-construction homes he was not authorized to sell, which were built by a legitimate developer he had no connection with. Last month, Kunwar was charged with fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime. That's on top of two counts of each charge already laid against him in February and March of this year, according to Brampton court records. The criminal charges against him have yet to be tested in court. Now, Peel Regional Police are warning the public about Kunwar. "Members of the public are urged to avoid any transactional interactions with Moiz Kunwar," spokesperson Const. Tyler Bell-Morena said. He says the fraud bureau is continuing to investigate new and existing allegations of fraud involving Kunwar "relating to instances where he reportedly misrepresented himself as being a member of a real estate development company." Bell-Morena says police believe there are other victims who have not yet come forward and are encouraging anyone with information to contact Peel police's fraud department or report details anonymously through Crime Stoppers. 40-50 more people believed they were scammed: lawyer Toronto lawyer Andrew Ballantyne is representing seven plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit against Kunwar. Since CBC Toronto's reporting on Kunwar's criminal charges in May, he says he's received phone calls from 40 to 50 people who believe they are also victims of the alleged real estate scam. Ballantyne says he's working with the majority of them to help get their deposits back. "A lot of these people are regular, everyday people … [who] have given their life savings and it's tragic to see," he said. Three civil lawsuits filed in Ontario Superior Court paint a similar picture and accuse Kunwar of collecting deposits for pre-construction homes across the Greater Toronto Area by using a corporate name nearly identical to that of a legitimate developer he was not associated with. The lawsuits claim he took deposits for homes that he had no right to sell, leaving the buyers without their new homes and out tens of thousands of dollars in deposit money. The plaintiffs in the three civil suits claim they gave Kunwar a total of nearly $570,000 in deposits and are suing him in hopes of getting that money back, plus damages. In an email to CBC Toronto, Kunwar said he intends to defend himself against all charges and allegations against him, but did not comment further because the matters are before the courts. Kunwar previously denied fraud allegations In a statement of defence in one of the civil claims against him, Kunwar denied all allegations of fraud and that he'd ever represented himself as a real estate investor, broker, developer or mortgage lender. Instead, he claimed he was "simply a sales associate" who received some payments on behalf of his superiors but did not deposit them for his own personal use. The court filing said Kunwar believed the transactions were lawful and legitimate. CBC Toronto first began investigating Kunwar in 2022 after a local realtor flagged a suspicious sales pitch that was circulating in Toronto's Black community for below-market rate pre-construction homes with low mortgage rates. As part of that investigation, CBC Toronto spoke to multiple people who claimed they paid Kunwar or his associates at the company Paradise Development Homes Limited (PDHL) deposits for homes. The 2022 investigation found the homes were being sold by a legitimate and licensed developer, Paradise Homes Homes Inc., but despite the nearly identical name, the licensed developer had no ties to Kunwar or PDHL. In a statement at the time, Paradise Developments Inc. said Kunwar had no authority or legal right to sell any of the builder's properties. Kunwar told CBC Toronto he passed on information about the deals to people he knew but denied taking deposits. Accusations as recent as last spring Kunwar continued to take deposits for pre-construction homes as recently as last spring, according to Ballantyne. He says because the real estate deal Kunwar was offering was so good, many were eager to tell their friends and family, who also signed up. "It just spread like wildfire," he said. Ballantyne says the would-be buyers were often taken out to the development site and shown the home they were going to be purchasing. "Eventually that unit gets built. Eventually [other] people move into that unit, the closing date comes and goes and people realize, 'Hey, what's going on here?'" He says when they reach out to Kunwar they are "smoothly talked off the ledge" in order to buy more time. "But, ultimately, there's only so much time they can buy," he said.
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Frostbite and fear: Inside a journey into Canada with human smugglers
Chidi Nwagbo says he made a "stupid" decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee. The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration raids sweeping the U.S. He says the smugglers lied to him about the dangers of the journey that almost killed him along the borderlands between New York State and Quebec in February of this year. "If I had known that this would have been the outcome, I don't think I would have done it," said Nwagbo in a phone interview with CBC News from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre in Batavia, N.Y. The Canada-US Border Rights Clinic, an organization that provides legal advice to migrants, is working on his case but he's facing imminent deportation to Nigeria — a country he left 37 years ago. He's now warning others not to follow in his footsteps. The choice to leave the U.S. Nwagbo, moved to the U.S. from Nigeria in the late 1980s, where he built a life. He has five U.S.-born children from two marriages. He received a bravery award in 2014 from the Columbus, Ohio, fire department after saving a 10-year-old girl from drowning. Yet, he failed to get U.S. citizenship and faced a removal order in 2021 after missing an appearance at an immigration hearing, which his lawyer blamed on a "scheduling error," according to records. Nwagbo said he felt he had no choice but to flee to Canada after U.S. President Donald Trump's election victory last November. A friend gave him a phone number linked to a WhatsApp account run by human smugglers from New Jersey. He flew from Atlanta, Ga., to Newark, N.J., early on Feb. 1, then took an Uber to a McDonald's in Paterson, N.J., where the smugglers told him he'd be picked up. Nwagbo, carrying $2,000 US cash stuffed in his pocket, says he waited for several hours. "I was afraid. I got nervous," he said. "I thought, 'What if they were police or ICE or something?'" Finally, he received a text telling him to step outside where a pickup truck waited. He was taken to a Dunkin Donuts and transferred to the very back seat of an SUV with Florida plates. They headed toward the Canadian border in the early afternoon. He says the journey took about seven hours. About 15 minutes before the drop-off point somewhere along a rural road near the New York State border with Quebec, Nwagbo says the smugglers told the group to prepare to exit the vehicle and run into the bush. He was told to download a compass app on his phone and keep the arrow pointing north. They were assured someone would be waiting to pick them up on the other side. "As soon as I took a few steps, I knew I made a mistake," he said. The frozen path to Canada Nwagbo recalls thinking he was going to freeze to death as he trudged through deep snow in the forest for hours under a waxing crescent moon on that cold February night. A woman from Guinea who walked with him kept losing her shoes in the snow until finally, she left them and continued in her socks. Two women from Haiti struggled behind them, one carrying an 11-month-old boy. As Nwagbo pushed his way through snow and brush, he lost his gloves and all feeling in his fingers, making it difficult to answer calls from the smugglers trying to direct their movements. "These people will call me and say, 'Just keep going, you only have 10 minutes,' " he said. "It was supposed to be a 30-, 40-minute walk." Exhausted and numb from temperatures that dipped to -28 C overnight, they called 911 for help. Nwagbo wasn't sure where he was along the border, and feared apprehension by U.S. Border Patrol agents. "When I found out that it was Canadian [police], then it was a big relief," he said. WATCH | A surge in asylum claims at the Quebec-U.S. border: Asylum claims surge at Lacolle, Que., border crossing: CBSA data 3 months ago Duration 3:31 There has been a significant change in the number of asylum claims since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, specifically at the regular border crossing in Lacolle, Que., according to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) data obtained by Radio-Canada and CBC News. The data shows there had already been 557 asylum claims at Lacolle in the first six days of April — just three fewer than in all of January. The price of the journey The journey exacted a price on Nwagbo's body. Frostbite forced the amputation of his pinky, ring and middle finger along with the top of his thumb on his left hand. He lost the top of his middle and ring fingers on his right hand. Quebec RCMP said officers received a call in the evening of Feb. 1 that a woman and her children were lost in a forested border area roughly 30 kilometres south of Salaberry-de-Valleyfiel, Que. The RCMP told CBC News that officers found a group of three women, one man and a child who were "illegally crossing from the U.S. to Canada." The group was taken to hospital and treated for "various frostbites," according to the RCMP. They were then transferred into the custody of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry, about 64 kilometres south of Montreal. Nwagbo was one of 99 people intercepted by the RCMP in February crossing irregularly over the Quebec-U.S. border, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The latest data says RCMP intercepted 329 people crossing into Quebec from the U.S. between January to April. That number is trending slightly higher over 2024 levels. 'They might eliminate him' Nwagbo said he chose to use human smugglers because he wrongly believed he needed to go through U.S. customs to reach a Canadian port of entry. "I didn't have all the information that I needed to make the right decision," he said. Nwagbo made an asylum claim at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry, saying he had a brother who was a Canadian citizen. This is one of the exemptions under the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between the U.S. and Canada. Under the agreement, refugee claims must be submitted in the country where people first arrive. For this reason, Canada turns away most asylum seekers who attempt to enter from the U.S. at land-border crossings, but there are exceptions to this rule. His asylum claim was rejected after a CBSA officer determined he couldn't prove the relationship with his older brother Jolly Nwagbo, 74. "He had no copy of his birth certificate to confirm the relation," read the CBSA determination obtained by CBC News. The CBSA officer wrote they could not reach Nwagbo's brother by phone despite three attempts. Nwagbo was transferred into U.S. custody at the Champlain, N.Y., port of entry later that day, according to records. Jolly Nwagbo, who lives in St. Catharines, Ont., says he never received a call from CBSA. "The situation right now is deplorable," he said. The writer and academic says his family faces danger in Nigeria as a result of his book, Nigeria for Sale, about corruption in the country. Jolly says his brother could be killed if he's deported to Nigeria. "They might eliminate him because he's my brother," he said, noting that other family members are in hiding. The family is also part of the Igbo tribe that has historically faced persecution in Nigeria. Gauri Sreenivasan, co-executive director for the Canadian Council for Refugees, says they've received reports that CBSA has been taking a harder line on asylum claims made under exceptions to the Safe Third County Agreement. "We have seen a major shift in how the border rules are being enforced, with serious consequences," said Sreenivasan. Between Jan. 1 and July 7, CBSA has ordered the removal of 620 people who crossed irregularly between ports of entry and were found ineligible under the STCA, according to the latest CBSA data. The agency ordered the removal of 645 people between Jan. 1 and July 31 under the same circumstances in 2024. Nwagbo, who is still awaiting word about when he will be deported, says he regrets his decision to use smugglers to come to Canada and is now warning others. "Don't do it. It's risky."
CBC
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- CBC
Quadeville residents question attack response
July 13, 2025 | Residents of Quadeville, Ont., demand answers about the response to an attack on an 8-year-old girl. Wildfire smoke blankets Manitoba as more communities are evacuated. And, Canadian summer camps reassess their safety plans after the tragedy in Texas.
