If you had to do a list of the most powerful gangs in Canada. But those gangs can not be italian mafia groups, biker groups like the hells angels or chinese triads.

What would be the top 5 gangs in canada?
West end gangs? Wooley and the syndicates ? Jamaican gangs ? Somali gangs? Haitian gangs ? Punjabi gangs ? Russian mafia ? United Nation? Red Scorpions ? Shower Posse ? Manitoba Warriors ?

What do yall guys think ?

I think it depends on the region in Canada. Bikers are influential all over Canada. Italian and Chinese organized crime groups are to a certain extent as well, even though Italian organized crime seems to be less influential in British Columbia and Chinese organized crime seems to be less influential Quebec.

I'd say, outside of those three, the most powerful in British Columbia are Punjabi gangs and Vietnamese gangs.

In Ontario the Jamaican gangs and to a slightly smaller extent Punjabi and Tamil gangs are more influential. Somali gangs are moving up as well.

In Quebec I'd say it's the Haitian gangs that are the most noteworthy and Lebanese organized crime is a force as well.
West End Gang...I really don't know if they're still around. You basically never hear anything about them...

The prairie provinces on the other hand have plenty of Native/First Nations gang activity which ranges from average street gangs to more sophisticated smuggling operations and corruption.

The Russians...if you'd believe your average internet forum Russian organized crime is endemic, but you never hear about busts or names that law enforcement got their eyes on.
If they're around in Canada they're very much under the radar and I doubt they're major players.

Sure by region you got major players.
But for exemple, do yall think the Red Scorpions of BC make bigger move than the Vietnamese of Toronto or Wooley and his organization?

They are each major players in there provinces. But who got more weights in youre opinion?

For exemple this article make it seem like the punjabi gangs are top 3 in all of Canada

https://www.thepressreporter.in/punjabi-smugglers-among-top-3-notorious-gangs-in-canada/

« From drug trafficking to gang wars, extortion and cash laundering, Punjabi smugglers determine amongst high three infamous gangs in Canada behind the biker gangs and Vietnamese teams. »

In the grand scale of things, I think the Haitian gangs of Montreal are bigger players than gangs like Red Scorpions.
When it comes to specific Punjabi crime clans I think it becomes debatable, because these clans are often very internationally active.

In Montreal, before the italian mafia, you had the jewish mafia. They were controling everything in the organized crime.
I guess they all still in Montreal. The two girls that were arrested in Australia for drug trafficking were sent by members of the jewish mafia from montreal.

Jewish Gangsters
Until the arrival of New York’s Cosa Nostra in Montreal in the early 1950s, gambling and underworld crime were locally-run, and from the 1920s until the 50s, many Jews were actively involved in these illicit enterprises.
Max Shapiro came to Montreal from Poland in the 1920s and ran one of the most successful gambling houses in the city. Eventually, with partners, he opened the famous Ruby Foo’s hotel and restaurant.

Harry Feldman, of New York, owned a three-storey building on Bleury and Ste-Catherine, where the ground floor housed a legitimate business, but the upper floors were dedicated to bookmaking. Unlike his contemporaries, he lived quietly and did not get involved in the drug trade. He was a part owner of many significant establishments, including Chez Parée, and was known as a good family man. In fact, over the course of his 14-year career, he was never apprehended and his organizational skills were even praised by the chief of Montreal police at the time, Pacifique Plante.

Harry Davis of Romania was another prominent local gambler, responsible for the first underworld killing in Montreal. In 1935, he had Charles Feigenbaum—a police informant whose testimony had resulted in Davis’ 14-year sentence for smuggling morphine—murdered on Esplanade across from Fletcher’s Field. After several years in jail, Davis returned to the city in the mid-1940s and regained his title as gambling Tsar, controlling who could open gambling venues in the Red Light District and taking 20% from each. His rule came to an end on July 25, 1946, when he was shot to death in his gambling house at 1244 Stanley Street. He was killed by Louis Bercowitz, who did not receive Davis’s permission to open his own gambling establishment. Davis’s death permitted Harry Ship to dominate the gambling trade until his mistakes brought the New York Cosa Nostra to Montreal, engendering a new era of organized crime.

Harry Ship, called the King of the Montreal Gamblers, was a major bookmaker and operator of illegal casinos all over Montreal. Born in 1915, Ship studied mathematics at Queen’s University. Although he did not graduate, he excelled in his studies and was highly respected among his peers. He returned to Montreal in 1940, where he established a series of “white houses” along Ste-Catherine Street. Each house contained five telephone lines, blackboards and operators’ headsets, so bookies could take bets and write them up simultaneously. Business was so brisk that the apartments were often subdivided into halves and quarters to be able to house all the bookmakers. He also operated illegal casinos in Lachine, Greenfield Park, and on a farm in Côte St. Luc. Ship admitted that he made $1M annually, from 1940 to 1946 (equivalent: $15M today).

Although he lived lavishly, including owning a mansion in Outremont and the Chez Parée nightclub, which featured acts such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, his operations were frequently raided and he paid huge sums of money to the local police. Eventually, he was arrested and sentenced to six months in jail.

Perhaps Ship’s legacy to Montreal is the introduction of New York’s Cosa Nostra into the city. It seems that Ship owed money to Frank Erikson, the wealthiest bookie on the East Coast, whose silent partners included Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano. Due to his indebtedness, Ship was forced to accept the interference of the New York families in the early 1950s, which resulted in the Montreal underworld being controlled from New York, and the city becoming an important center for bookmaking and heroin smuggling. Little is known about Ship after this period, except that his is buried in the only family circle at the Baron De Hirsch Cemetery in Montreal and he, like so many other iconic figures, is immortalized in Mordecai Richler’s novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

The two young women and the 60-year-old Quebecois who allegedly imported 95 kg of cocaine into Australia were part of a large remote-controlled operation from Montreal, involving at least 12 people in Quebec, Morocco, Mexico and Peru.
Mélina Roberge, Isabelle Lagacé and André Tamine are in prison in Sydney, but they would have been mere mules in this alleged plot, carefully planned by an Egyptian-Syrian gang and the Jewish underworld of the metropolis, in collaboration with the infamous Mexican Sinaloa cartel.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/02/15/pions-quebecois-et-narcotrafiquants-mondiaux-1

They’re ran by a guy named Harold from Toronto, he’s tied to the Montreal Stock Exchange and had a trading office on Bay Street in Toronto, which is the Financial District of Canada. He might be using his son Adam now, pretty sure he got married in Mexico.

He’s the type of Israeli that would plant the explosives in the towers on 911, he’s one of the main narcotics importer from the Eastern part of the world with Desjardins, as well working with the Zeta type cartels from Mexico and El Salvador. Pretty sure he was pulling the strings on the Wolfpack, specifically the Iranians with Alkhalil family (which are basically the Ayatollah & Hezbollah) very evil people!

Everyone in Canada knows who he is actually, I just found that out lol

Does anyone know about the Street Gang that Michael Cudmore was part of, because members of it have become Hells Angels in Hamilton, so obviously they are murders?
North End Crew? The name Jabirl Abdalla seems to fit the network these guys manipulate and use, so who knows lol
Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Is there Skinhead gangs like there used to be in Hamilton? It’s still pretty relevant in California, and is gaining traction all over Europe! From what I’ve been told it’s really just missing the right leadership to organize it right across the world.

Vic Controni mentored under a Jewish gangster prior to absorbing the rackets, same as Luciano with Rothstein. Starkman was said to be the brains behind Rocco Perri, before she had her brains blew out lol and Tony Papalia absorbs the rackets.