🚓 CRIME - Robert Prevost found dead in Ottawa River

🍪 BAKING - Man spends night in hospital after eating brownie from stranger

🚗 DRIVING - Toronto man receives $1,500 Hwy 407 bill after crooks duplicate his plate

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CRIME

ROBERT PREVOST FOUND DEAD?

Robert Prevost has been found dead in the Ottawa River.

Police pulled his body from the water 13 days ago, just upstream from the nation’s capital—about 40 kilometres away from Parliament Hill.

They’re treating his death as a homicide.

The 63-year-old man from Clarence-Rockland was last seen at his home on Laurier Street in early February 2025. He was reported missing a month later.

This is what he looks like. 👇️ 

Police have not yet identified any suspects in the case.

In other news, the pope is fine. Why do you ask?

BAKING

DON’T EAT BROWNIES FROM STRANGERS

A Port Stanley man landed in the hospital after eating a brownie from a strange woman he met at a farmer’s market.

“I was unknowingly drugged,” he said. “I was tripping out in a big way.”

Joshua Fairweather, who owns a local clothing company called Lakeside Apparel, was peddling merch with his partner and eight-year-old son on the morning of Saturday, May 18, when an “older woman” with “straggly, greyish-brown hair” approached them. She wore a bright yellow and green vest.

“She was quite lovely,” he said in a video posted on Facebook. “She was German and talked about speaking Spanish… it was a great overall conversation.”

The woman told Fairweather about her famous chocolate-bourbon brownies. 

She said, “I only bake when it rains, blows, and snows.”

“Well, we’re here all day if you want to bake us something,” said Fairweather.

The woman scampered off and returned 20 minutes later with a bag full of cookies and her famous chocolate-bourbon brownies. They were frozen.

“You guys can have some when they’re not frozen,” she said. “Or else you might chip a tooth.”

Fairweather waited until they thawed, then ate a cookie. He also offered one to his son, who refused.

Later that day, Fairweather ate another cookie and one of the famous chocolate-bourbon brownies. He thought it smelled funny.

“Turns out, it was [laced with] pot,” he said. “I don’t know what else was in there.”

20 minutes later, Fairweather was curled up in a ball on his living room floor, paralyzed.

“I felt like I was going to have a heart attack,” he said. “I was really tripping out.”

His partner called an ambulance when he started vomiting. He spent the night in the hospital, where doctors nursed him back to life.

“All I have to say is… don’t take candy from strangers,” Fairweather said. “Because I took this brownie from a stranger and she did not say ANYTHING!”

DRIVING

CRIME TAKES A TOLL

A Toronto man was settling down one evening last week to watch the Leafs lose when he heard a knock on his front door.

Camilo Sanchez opened the door and was greeted by two grave-looking police officers.

They showed him images of a white Dodge Durango—which looked similar to his own car—that had been used in “violent crimes and theft around the city.” The car also bore Sanchez’s license plate.

Sanchez insisted he was not a criminal. The cops eventually believed him and said his license plate had probably been duplicated by criminals.

They told him to go to Service Ontario and get a new plate.

But when Sanchez arrived at Service Ontario the following day, a woman behind the desk said she could not give him a new plate.

“What’s the problem?” Sanchez asked.

“You have a 407 bill that’s over $1,500,” she said.

In total, Sanchez owed $1,508.42 to the toll highway, which is owned by a consortium of private companies.

The 407 was hesitant to waive Sanchez’s outstanding fines until he showed them a police report, but the company eventually caved after receiving half a dozen calls about the incident from various media outlets.

“Duplicated plates remain rare for our customers,” the 407 told CTV News.

But just yesterday, a Reddit user posted this:

It looks like this is a new criminal tactic.

I’d give you advice on how to handle it, but I’m too busy refreshing my 407 account to see if my plates have been duped yet.

Enjoy your weekend. 🍻 

-Peter