A Lamborghini Huracan is among the luxury items seized after a major police operation saw 20 people charged with more than 220 offences in Queensland.
Officers part of Operation Whiskey Pitt — aimed at busting organised criminals in the Moreton area — stormed more than a dozen properties across North Brisbane in July.
During the raids, police allege they found quantities of cocaine, MDMA, mushrooms, steroids, a little over 55 kilograms of cannabis, 11 cannabis plants and two hydroponic set-ups.
The black Lamborghini Huracan valued about $350,000, more than $424,000 in cash and about $100,000 worth of jewellery were also seized.
Following the searches, a total of 20 people were charged.
Three of those — a 23-year-old man from Narangba, a 40-year-old woman from Kallangur and a 42-year-old man from Morayfield — were charged with trafficking dangerous drugs as well as a slew of other offences.
The philosopher Hannah Arendt’s much-quoted description of the “banality of evil” could be applied to the disquieting story told in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.…
<img src="https://www.mtlblog.com/media-library/a-quebec-flag-waves-atop-a-historic-building.jpg?id=55623799&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C39%2C0%2C39"/><br/><br/><p>Quebec's story is written in its surnames.</p><p> While the province has grown into a diverse society — with immigrants and visible minorities making up 14% and 16% of the population, according to the <a href="https://statistique.quebec.ca/en/communique/portrait-demographique-diversite-quebec-differences-femmes-hommes" target="_blank">Institut de la statistique du Québec</a> — its French Canadian roots remain the quintessential part of its identity.</p><p>You can see those roots in the names you regularly stumble upon throughout the province. In fact, many of Quebec's most common last names today trace back to the early settlers of "Nouvelle-France" in the 17th century. Take Tremblay, for example — it's the most common surname in Quebec and the third <a href="https://surnam.es/canada" target="_blank">most common across Canada</a>, with 106,669 people sharing it nationwide. </p><p>Thanks to updated data from Yourfolks.com, we've also got a snapshot of which names continue to top the charts in <em>la belle province</em>, along with how often they appear in public records.</p><p>Think you can guess the rest? Here's a look at the 25 most common last names in Quebec, ranked by frequency.</p><ol><li>Tremblay: 53,788</li><li>Gagnon: 48,287</li><li>Roy: 47,526</li><li>Cote: 42,679</li><li>Gauthier: 34,224</li><li>Morin: 32,894</li><li>Belanger: 29,569</li><li>Bouchard: 29,065</li><li>Pelletier: 28,825</li><li>Gagne: 28,016</li><li>Lavoie: 26,548</li><li>Fortin: 25,917</li><li>Levesque: 24,275</li><li>Boucher: 23,786</li><li>Bergeron: 22,537</li><li>Caron: 21,659</li><li>Leblanc: 21,478</li><li>Girard: 21,066</li><li>Lefebvre: 20,757</li><li>Simard: 20,662</li><li>Fournier: 20,547</li><li>Ouellet: 20,139</li><li>Cloutier: 19,674</li><li>Martin: 18,333</li><li>Dube: 18,281</li></ol><div>Interested in exploring your family's name and its history in Quebec? Check it out in the <a href="https://www.mesaieux.com/an/recherche_genealogique/noms_de_famille" target="_blank">Your Folks genealogy database here</a>.</div><p><em>Love this? Check out our <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/notices/" target="_blank">MTL Blog noticeboard</a> for details on jobs, benefits, travel info and more!</em></p><p><em>AI tools may have been used to support the creation or distribution of this content; however, it has been carefully edited and fact-checked by a member of MTL Blog's Editorial team. For more information on our use of AI, please visit our <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/editorial-standards" target="_blank">Editorial Standards page</a>.</em></p><div></div>
