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Written By B.J. Dichter, Posted on October 30, 2026
Featured photo: Toronto skyline. Taxiarchos228, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
By B.J. Dichter, contributor to The National Telegraph
At about 3:43 a.m. on Thursday, three masked men forced their way through the back door of a home on Hyde Park Circle, in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighbourhood. They carried handguns, and one had a hammer. They demanded valuables. When the family fought back, the men fired “multiple times,” Toronto Police Insp. Kristy Smith told reporters, CBC News reported.
A father and his two adult daughters were shot. The mother was struck with a hammer. Two of the four have what police call “life-altering” injuries. Police have not named the victims, and I will respect the family’s privacy. I pray for their full recovery, and I admire their courage. Nobody should have to fight for their life in their own home.
Let me be clear about what we don’t know. Police have not identified the suspects, released descriptions or made arrests. The three men fled in an SUV. Smith said police have “no information at this point to suspect that this particular home was targeted,” and that she is “not quite sure what their motives are,” per Global. She suggested greed: an affluent area “where people would have things that are sought after.” No one has tied this attack to any gang or group, and I won’t either.
What I will do is say what I have been saying for years. I’m a Canadian who has watched violence climb in this country, and I’ve regularly attributed it to Islamist gangs, drug cartels and other violent organizations that have been brought into Canada. Long before the Freedom Convoy, when I was in party politics, I was vocal about this. I warned that this would be the result. I was regularly ignored by our political “leaders,” who do not like people who speak up.
In past live streams I mapped out what I see as the connection between car jackings in Toronto and Hezbollah’s activity in Canada. That is my analysis. Here is the part that is on the public record.
Canada listed Hezbollah, the whole organization, as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2002 (Public Safety Canada). The federal Department of Finance’s 2025 risk assessment says Hezbollah receives financial support originating from Canada, that FINTRAC’s 2022 alert named it the second most frequently identified international terrorist entity receiving outgoing Canadian funds, and that “the Port of Montréal is a known link where luxury vehicles are shipped to Lebanon, financially supporting Hezbollah,” as the Toronto Sun and National Post reported.
The Canada Border Services Agency says auto theft “increasingly involves organized crime groups,” that the proceeds “fund other illegal activities,” and that most stolen vehicles exported from Canada go to Africa and the Middle East. In one GTA case, Project CHICKADEE, police recovered 306 stolen vehicles worth about $25 million, bound for the Middle East and West Africa, with links to transnational organized crime.
To be fair, Toronto police report auto thefts fell to 7,421 in 2025, down 23.9 per cent (TPS 2025 annual report). Enforcement works when governments bother. That is my point. In my view, Ottawa knew where the cars were going, and who profits, and acted only after the numbers became a national embarrassment.
As a classical liberal, I believe the first job of government is protecting life, liberty and property. Everything else is optional. In my view, Ottawa has that backwards. It spends its energy on law-abiding gun owners and online speech, while our bail system keeps releasing violent offenders and our immigration screening fails to keep out people with ties to criminal and terrorist networks.
Vet who comes in, and remove those who come here to prey on us. Keep violent offenders in custody. Treat organized crime and terror financing as the national-security threat they are. Let Canadians defend their homes without fearing that they will be the ones charged.
This family fought back. They should never have had to. Anyone with information, dashcam or doorbell video is asked to call Toronto police or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
B.J. Dichter is a contributor to The National Telegraph and the producer and creator of Not On Record, a weekly podcast on politics and culture. He produces Open College with philosopher Stephen Hicks and hosts Coffee with BJ, his live show. A former trucker, he was a spokesperson for the 2022 Freedom Convoy and wrote about it in Honking For Freedom. He writes from a classical liberal, libertarian conservative perspective on free speech, Canadian and US politics, Israel and Bitcoin.
October 30, 2026
October 30, 2026
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