CBC – by Sarah BridgeNational security officials have been notified that an underground tunnel was discovered near a venue for this summer’s Pan Am Games in Toronto, CBC News has learned.
The tunnel was dug in the woods near Toronto’s Rexall Centre and York University’s Keele campus. It was large enough for a person to stand in, at around 2.5 metres in height, and was about seven metres long. The tunnel had lights inside, powered by a generator, and the walls and ceiling were reinforced.
Sources told CBC News that the tunnel has now been filled in by authorities.
A Toronto and Region Conservation Authority employee reportedly found the tunnel while walking near the TRCA headquarters at 5 Shoreham Dr. in mid-January. The employee, who was carrying out day-to-day activities, noticed a piece of corrugated steel in the woods and when it was lifted, the tunnel could be seen about three metres down.
The TRCA told CBC News on Monday that it is aware of a police investigation.
Details of the mystery tunnel have been brought to the attention of national security authorities. (CBC graphic)
Authorities have essentially ruled out the possibility that the tunnel was going to be used as a drug lab or marijuana grow-op, according to sources. It likely took weeks if not longer to dig, and the earth excavated from the tunnel appears to have been removed from the site to help avoid detection.
Toronto police have refused to comment on the mystery tunnel, but are expected to hold a press conference about it Tuesday.
Tennis Canada, which operates in the Rexall Centre, is co-operating with the police investigation, a spokesperson said.
The Rexall Centre, Canada’s national tennis facility, is set to be a tennis venue for this summer’s Pan Am Games and the Parapan Am Games.
CBC News has learned that investigators visited the Tennis Canada site a few weeks ago and spoke with grounds crew at that time. While investigators were on site, there was also a police presence in the woods nearby.
The tunnel, marked above with a red circle, is adjacent to the Rexall Centre, Canada’s national tennis facility. (CBC)
The former assistant director of intelligence at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said the discovery raises some important questions.
“First and foremost is the question around the context of the tunnel — where it is positioned? How deep was it? How accessible was it? And what sort of things could be sent through that tunnel, being people or material,” Ray Boisvert said.
A hole in this fence, which has since been fixed, led to the mystery tunnel. (John Lancaster/CBC)
Boisvert said that the tunnel’s proximity to the Rexall Centre could be a concern for those involved in security for the Games.
“I would think that they would want to have some level of assurance that this was not targeting the games or targeting any other facility around there,” he said.
“I would want to be able to have some sense that we know what the purpose of that particular tunnel was and who was likely — if not who, precisely — was behind it.”
The Ontario Provincial Police, which is leading the Integrated Security Unit for the games, told CBC News that it was unable to comment on the tunnel, as it was “a matter for York University and the Toronto Police Service.”
No one has come forward to claim the digging tools and generator found in the tunnel or offer any explanation for its existence.
CBC News has confirmed employees at several area gas stations were asked if anyone had been filling up gas cans recently that may have been used to power the generator.
So far, no suspects have been identified.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mystery-tunnel-found-near-pan-am-games-venue-1.2968367
My Fellow Americans:
This tunnel is being dug by the Secret Service so Criminal Obama could sneek out of the next game he attends there, to go get his a$$ banged by his fag lover.
Any questions??…. No!?,…. good.
Mystery solved,… it’s Obama’s lover’s dirt tunnel entrance.
JD – US Marines – Geez,.. the press acts like they don’t know what a “Dirt-Tunnel” is used for by fags.
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is this where they pretend they cant pull up fingerprints or dna from the site because its too compromised?
or because people are so worn out of all these mysteries popping up as of late, they know they had better get a move on it?
or maybe they’ll just milk this one for a while longer.
Oh my god, a tunnel…Oh no…let’s all get scared. 🙄
Unfrigginbelievable….
Can’t the news report anything that’s non-fearmongering related?
Next thing you know, they will be reporting on a door that is mysteriously opened. Oggy-Boogy! BOO!
So, no pictures of the real tunnel then? Just a computer generated facsimile of a tunnel? Reminds me of those secret underground al-ciada hideouts that we never saw any real pictures of. Just computer generated mock-ups.
Actually,
a re-inforced cave 2.5 x 7 would be good for an artillary piece or a rocket launcher.
put a remote on it, do the deed and blame ISIS?
This is more likely to be just more contrived bullshit from TPTB.
If it exists at all, it was probably created just to have something to talk about, and point at, and say shit like ‘dem terrorists gonna git ya, eh’.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Germany, one person allegedly dies from measles and it’s front page news here…