18 April 2009

The Euroweenies strike back

How come there's never a Navy SEAL around... when you really need one?
-- ON BOARD CORTE-REAL -- The commandos briefly detained and questioned the seven gunmen, he told Reuters, but had no legal power to arrest them.

“NATO does not have a detainment policy. The warship must follow its national law.”
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RELATED: Of course, it's not like Ontario...

...has a lot to crow about...
The father of a baby girl dumped in a frigid North York stairwell last year will serve no additional jail time and mom has to pay a $300 fine, a court has ruled.

The parents of Baby Angelica-Leslie pleaded guilty in a Toronto courtroom Thursday to abandoning the year-old tot in a parking garage in Janauary 2008.

Neither parent can be named to protect the identity of the little girl found lying facedown in the stairway in -14C temperatures. She was also had cuts and bruises on her face at the time she was found.
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LAST WORD: But we're tough on terror, right?
-- BRAMPTON -- A youth convicted for his part in the so-called Toronto 18 terror cell will be sentenced as an adult, a Superior Court judge ruled yesterday.

But depending on the amount of pre-trial credit awarded to the man, the additional amount of jail time he'd be required to spend might amount to little, if any, more time behind bars.
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