The rocky road to...

...Allen's Snackbar...

The last known member of the Barcelona terror cell has been shot dead after he was cornered by armed police. Police said Younes Abouyaaqoub shouted “Allahu Akbar” just before he was gunned down outside Subirats.

Abouyaaqoub, 22, had fled Las Ramblas on foot and is thought to have killed a 14th person to take his car and escape from the city.

Five other members of the cell – including Abouyaaqoub’s brother Houssaine - were shot dead by police in the coastal town of Cambrils early last Friday.

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RELATED: Where will they strike next?

With Finland in shock over deadly stabbings being treated as a terror attack, the main suspect has been identified.

Abderrahman Mechkah, aged 18, is being investigated for two cases of murder and eight attempted murders, all with terrorist intent.

Police say he is a Moroccan asylum seeker.

Remember, back in the day...

...when you were a kid, your friends & siblings were being cut down left and right..?

Yeah, me neither.

It's not the first time the Zero Gun Violence Movement has taken to the streets to call for stronger action on the problem. And many of the family members present on Saturday say they know the demonstration likely won't be their last.

Kudos to the patient CBC photographer who probably had to wait hours for this carefully framed photograph. The 4th estate has become the 5th column.

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RELATED: Dear CBC, have you actually examined...

...a list of Toronto's murder victims from 2017?Don't settle for just January... you can check out the year to date.

Yup, you can almost smell the journalism.

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UPDATE: And the list just got bigger...

Toronto police have identified a man who was found shot dead in downtown Toronto on Sunday morning.

He was been identified as Khadr Mohamed, 22, of Toronto.

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LAST WORD: Those dastardly Canadian traffickers...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Canadian man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for his role in a smuggling operation that sent more than $130 million worth of drugs between the United States and Canada.

Harinder Dhaliwal, of Brampton, Ontario, was sentenced on conspiracy charges Wednesday in federal court in Buffalo.

Problem solved... no more Nazis

Went to Kingston, Ontario yesterday to do some shopping... they have a Lee Valley Tools... and ran smack into an... wait for it... anti-nazi demonstration. They were taking up half the street and the imbeciles at the front with the banner kept pushing over into the other lane to totally stop traffic.

The usual mix of smelly old hippies and obvious welfare types. One East Indian woman and a half dozen Chinese (clearly university students), but otherwise hastily recruited po' white trailer trash.

Asked the female bicycle cop leading the raggedy ensemble whether they actually had a significant nazi problem in Kingston... she smiled, shrugged and looked away. Half a dozen cops who wouldn't be fighting crime just babysitting these fools for hours. Easy money on a hot summer day, I guess.

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RELATED: And forget about wearing brown shirts

Joshua Witt, 26, says he’d just pulled in to the parking lot of the Steak ’n Shake in Sheridan, Colo., and was opening his car door. “All I hear is, ‘Are you one of them neo-Nazis?’ as this dude is swinging a knife up over my car door at me. Apparently, my haircut is considered a neo-Nazi statement.”

Hmmm... are there any actual real world problems we could be thinking about?

The released report comes after France has experienced nine terror or attempted Islamist terror attacks since January 2017, including two this month.

When Glenn is right, he’s right...

...And MAN, is he ever RIGHT about this one.

Snowflake U

I had to explain the news to a young gal at work today. Selling emotional "news" to get people talking is a desperately-competitive big business. It's not about keeping you "informed."

She confessed that she had never thought about it that way, that the media makes the news so people will watch it instead of CSI re-runs. She is young and innocent, but capable of learning.

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RELATED: What's not to trust?

If I only had a brain

"The terrorist cell which killed 14 people in Catalonia on Thursday was planning to mount a bombing attack in Barcelona that was only abandoned when they accidentally blew up the house where they were stockpiling explosives."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"They gotta stop with that whole marryin' people they meet at family reunions thing."

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UPDATE: Another casualty of the R.O.P.

Ian Moore Wilson has been identified as the Canadian killed in the Barcelona van attack.

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RELATED: In other Religion of Peace news...

An 18-year-old Moroccan male asylum seeker was arrested Friday after having been shot in the leg by a police officer. He is being held on suspicion of murder and a possible terrorist intent.

The two deceased victims are female Finnish citizens aged 15 and 67. Among the eight injured victims are one British, two Swedish, and one Italian citizen./

Muhammed take the wheel...

A terror attack in Barcelona has left 13 people dead and 32 injured, 10 seriously, after a van ploughed into pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas street.

The van used in the attack was rented by Driss Oukabir.

Live and don't learn Euroweenies.

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RELATED: Ask a Canadian media outlet...

...this one is on General Motors, er... Fiat & friends...

BARCELONA, Spain -- A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district Thursday, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents.

It's the scrapyard crusher for you, villain!

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UPDATE: Kill 'em all...

...let Allah sort 'em out...

Hours after the incident, three police officers were run over on the Barcelona Avinguda Diagonal, another major thoroughfare in the city roughly a mile away, as a car attempted to overrun a checkpoint.

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UPDATE2: Payback is a bitch

Five alleged terrorists were killed in a shootout with police in Spain's Catalonia region early Friday following deadly attacks there that killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100 others, according to Spanish authorities.

Get out your decoder rings...

Meanwhile... out in the west end.

The capricious and unknowable...

..."Will of Buddha, er... Shiva, wait... Odin, no... uh, Jesus... oh, yeah... that guy, AGAIN..."

Communication Minister Remi Dandjinou told journalists that at least 17 people were dead and eight others wounded, according to a provisional toll. The victims came from several different nationalities, he said.

Security forces arrived at the scene with armoured vehicles after reports of shots fired near Aziz Istanbul, an upscale restaurant in Ouagadougou.

The attack brought back painful memories of the January 2016 attack at another café that left 30 people dead.

Okay... there's another country off the vacation list.

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UPDATE: If Allah wants you......

Two Canadians were among 18 people killed in a suspected extremist attack on a popular restaurant in Burkina Faso.

In 2011, Tammy Jane Mackay Chen co-founded a Canadian charity, Bright Futures of Burkina Faso, that worked toward supporting education for at-risk students in the country. Her doctorate thesis at the University of Cambridge, which she was set to complete her studies in December, was looking at the intergenerational effects of poverty on women in Burkina Faso.

Bilel Diffalah had been a veterinarian in his native Algeria. He had been in Canada for five years, had obtained a certificate in food science systems from the University of Guelph and had worked in the agri-food industry in Canada.

What will it take for PM Selfie to use the words "Islamic Terrorism?"

Erasing history...

...is never the answer...

For the next week or two • assuming we're not at war with North Korea • we will hear non-stop geschreiing from our media about what a racist nation we are, how we have to come together, rend our shirts, investigate this and that and endlessly discuss how bad we are until we're finally forgiven at some undetermined point in an ever vanishing future that seems never to arrive.

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RELATED: I feel obliged to point out...

..Ted Kennedy's car has still killed more people than my guns...

"One person was killed and 19 injured in a car attack in Charlottesville. Guns were not used. But Everytown is using the violence to push gun control."

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LAST WORD: Their political masters...

"When push came to shove • literally • on Saturday, police and National Guardsmen were to be found only on the periphery of the brawling. Indeed, the Virginia ACLU reported that police were refusing to intervene unless specifically ordered to do so."

Darwin was right

An Iowa man was arrested after police allegedly found him carrying meth as he tried to deposit a million-dollar bill into his bank account.

Dennis Strickland, 33, attempted to deposit the bill, which he said was worth $1 million, into his bank account in Sioux City on Thursday.

In other "room temperature IQ" news...

ATHENS, Ala. — Authorities say an Alabama man whacked his twin brother with an aluminum baseball bat because he didn’t want to share tacos. Dukes later told a deputy that his twin is “always disrespecting me.”

Names will not be published...

...to protect the narrative AND the guilty...

A man has been rushed to a trauma centre with serious injuries after he was shot during a street robbery in the city's downtown core. Police say three suspects, armed with handguns, fled the area in a white Chevy Cruz and headed westbound on King Street.

All three suspects were arrested and three handguns were seized.

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UPDATE: CTV glosses over "cultural relativity angle"...

On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, at approximately 3:18 a.m., a man was in the King Street West and Brant Street area and was approached by a group of men he did not know. One of the men from the group pointed a firearm at the man and made a demand for a chain the man was wearing.

A struggle ensued between the man and the group, at which point the man was shot in the leg, and the group of men fled.

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LAST WORD: Don't hip-hop, er...

...jump to conclusions...

Toronto police Staff Sgt. Al Love said police are looking for an armed suspect who is described as male, five foot eight, wearing all black clothing. The suspect reportedly fled the scene in a grey vehicle.

“Right now we are also waiting to talk to the victim to see if we can get a more accurate description of the outstanding suspect.”

See, just because Flemingdon Park is a notorious welfare hell hub of gang violence, you can't assume... wait a minute...

The suspect, 22 year old Di’on Jahil Wong is described as black, 5’8” and 146 pounds with short curly black hair.

Oh well.

Canada ties for eighth overall...

...while PM Selfie's refugee flavours of the week are Syria in 24th and Haiti in 39th place...

"These numbers came from a work carried out from 2002 to 2006 by Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science, who conducted IQ studies in more than 80 countries."

It isn't Donald Trump they should...

...be scared of...

"While our State Department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on Earth. The DPRK regime's actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates."

It sounds worse in writing...

...than it did in my head...

EDIT 2: To clarify a couple big points. The drugs and sex didn't fix me. They were like CPR for a man with a stopped heart. Dangerous, risky, and unlikely to work, but if you can keep the guy alive long enough to get the defibrillator to him, even if it means breaking some ribs, it's worth the risk.

I was going to die that night. I don't suggest if you're feeling depressed that you get a mountain of cocaine and a gaggle of chicas. But if you're holding the fucking gun to your head as you read this, yes, please do. Get some coke, get some women, get whatever you need! Don't. Do. It. Please?

If only there was a law

Activist Erricka Bridgeford promoted the campaign as a "Baltimore ceasefire" and "Nobody kill anybody" weekend that began on Friday and ends Sunday night, garnering the support of thousands on social media since May.

The city made it through Friday with no shootings reported, drawing hope from participants the campaign might see some success. But by Saturday, two men were shot and killed in separate incidents just hours apart.

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RELATED: It's just a jump to the left...

The group Solidarity Across Borders said Montreal police routinely arrest undocumented migrants and hand them over to the Canada Border Services Agency. It wants that practice stopped.

In a statement, the group also called on Montreal to bar border agents from all city premises.

You just fire all the cops... think of the money you'd save.

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LAST WORD: Muhammed take the wheel...

Le Parisien newspaper named the driver in the suspected terror incident as Hamou B., a 37-year-old from Sartrouville in the north western suburbs of Paris.