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If it weren’t for this newspaper you’re reading right now, you wouldn’t know about a lot of absolutely bananas criminal-justice and immigration-related stories in this country. But even Toronto Star readers are getting a window into the madness this week, via its sister paper the Hamilton Spectator. Readers learned that one Erik Kalanyos, who is now 29, has been identified as the suspect in the murder of Daniel Musafiri, who was then 29, outside a Hamilton billiards parlour in December 2023.

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At the time, Kalanyos had been “unlawfully at large” for violating parole conditions related to the armed robbery of a pharmacy in 2019. “During his months on the lam,” the Spec reported, “he also committed human-trafficking offences, for which he has been convicted and is awaiting sentencing.”

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