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%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% King Philippe of Belgium is yet to respond to president Nangolo Mbumba’s dissatisfaction with the G7’s ban on the importation of all non-industrial diamonds mined, processed and produced in Russia.

“We need more scanning machines for containers leaving our country and going elsewhere with people’s cars in them,” Ford said on Monday. “Let’s beef that up.”

“Unfortunately, the [federal] government doesn’t have the courage to force the Port of Montreal to accept [shipping container scanners],” said Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown. “They’ve had a ton of pushback from the port.”

Police say more charges are expected to be laid.

Police say more charges are expected to be laid.

While most of the thefts are happening in Ontario, most of the suspects involved with them are from Montreal or the surrounding region in QuГ©bec.

Most of the vehicles, recovered between December 2023 and April 2024, were swiped via robberies carried out in the Greater Toronto Area

Here are the live weather, traffic and school bus updates in Mississauga and Brampton, as well as Caledon, for April 5, along with our top news stories.

Around three-quarters of the 598 seized vehicles, with an estimated value of $34.5 million Canadian (US$25.5 million), were stolen in the neighboring province of Ontario, the Ontario Provincial Police and Canada Border Services Agency said.

Plus weather, traffic and more in the Morning Update.