Let me be clear: in the following, I’m
not defending having sex with anyone who’s underage. But I suspect that this Toronto Sun story about Project Juno is at least partially untrue and is maybe even complete bullshit.
I know that, in at least one previous and similar sting case (which was a part of Project Firebird), the cops posted an ad that did
not specify an age for the supposed SP. Only when guys called the ad’s number were they informed that the SP that they were calling about was “actually” 15-years-old. (I put the word
actually in quotes because, of course, there was no actual 15-year-old — there was an adult female cop pretending to be 15.)
Again, I’m
not defending anyone who, believing they were talking to a 15-year-old, went ahead and made an appointment. My point is, what if the sting procedure that was used in Project Firebird was also used in Project Juno? That would explain why it got 1,100 calls. Those 1,100 callers might have genuinely believed they were responding to an ad for an
adult. And once the female cop on the other end claimed to be 15 (or whatever age she pretended to be) the majority of the callers hung up.
The Toronto Sun article doesn’t specify the wording of the ad. I was curious about what that wording was — whether or not it indicated the age of the fictional SP. According to the article, Project Juno was organized by the Peel Police. So I asked an AI site to find me the Peel Police press release about Project Juno.
I was looking for something like this:
www.drps.ca
That’s a press release from the Durham Police about Project Firebird.
The AI told me that the Peel Police had
not issued a press release about Project Juno. I found that difficult to believe and assumed that the AI was fucking up, so I went directly to the Peel Police website and did a search there for Juno.
www.peelpolice.ca
That gave me “No Results Found”
What? I’m no expert in the procedures of the cops, but anytime in the past that I’d wanted to look up what a cop organization had to say about a particular human trafficking initiative that they’d been involved in, they'd always put out a press release on their site, particularly when a bunch of people have been arrested. (They understandably like to brag, and catching a bunch of pedophiles would be something to brag about.)
I figured I’d see what other news sources are saying about Project Juno. I asked various AI sites and search engines for articles about the project from other major news sources. I was expecting pieces from maybe the Star, or the CBC, or Global. Nope — the Windsor Star repeated the Toronto Sun article. A dodgy site called the Weekly Voice had a different article, but it had no new info. (The Weekly Voice looks like something that you could catch a virus from — I would not recommend visiting that site.) I also found a brief mention about Project Juno on something called The Pointer:
Peel’s ICE unit holding the line against surge in online child exploitation
thepointer.com
That’s all I could find.
In other words, not only does the website for the Peel Police not mention Project Juno, but all of the other major news sources are ignoring the story.
The Pointer claims that "
The investigation, Project Juno, led to the arrest of 10 men in five days.”
But that contradicts the numbers in the Toronto Sun account, which claims that Project Juno lasted 11 days, not 5, and that these are its arrest stats:
"
While 35 were arrested and charged by Peel cops, it is the high level of interest in sex with children that is most chilling. Across Ontario, there were 85 arrests [.]”
Note that “35 were arrested” by Peel cops, while “Across Ontario, there were 85 arrests.” That seems straightforward — 35 guys were arrested in Peel and 50 others were arrested somewhere else in Ontario. Except that, elsewhere in the article, it says that "Around 90% of the accused resided in Peel.” Ninety percent of 85 is 76.5, not 35. So not only do the numbers in The Pointer and the Toronto Sun not match, but the Sun's own numbers don’t make sense. Did the Sun authors not notice?
According to the Sun article: "
Project Juno was active for 11 days between November 2023 and February 2025.” What human would write that sentence? There were
14 months between November 2023 and February 2025. I’d like to think that, if I was a responsible journalist, and I somehow found those dates in my notes about this story, I’d call up the Peel cops to confirm when Project Juno happened.
I’ve heard that some news articles are now written by AI. Looking at the informational mess of this article, and that there’s no reference to a Project Juno on the Peel Police website, and that other major news organizations aren’t reporting on it, I was beginning to wonder if this whole article could be some sort of AI hallucination. Maybe someone at the Sun set up an AI program to create news stories based on material from police press releases, and the program fucked up, hallucinating this particular story, jumbling together details from real human trafficking cases and inventing the name Project Juno.
Maybe you’ll say that we don’t need to postulate that AI wrote the story to explain why it’s full of nonsense; Brad Hunter and Joe Warmington are just hacks who have to write a dozen stories a day and can’t be bothered to get the facts right for any given story. And maybe that’s the case. But if this is a case of hacks who can’t be bothered to get the facts right, then why are we paying attention to this story at all?
You saw a headline, assumed that it was true, got outraged, and reacted. And that outrage would have been justified if the headline had been true. I’m
not even saying that it’s not true, but I see enough reasons to question whether it's true to hold off on my outrage.
No, wait — I
am outraged, but I’m outraged about the state of journalism in 2026.
I apologize for the length of this post.