Diversity is our strength...

...except, of course, when it's our executioner...At least six people were killed and 15 were injured when a truck driver deliberately mowed down people and targeted a school bus in lower Manhattan Tuesday in what authorities are investigating as an act of terror. More than a dozen people were hit when the driver of a Home Depot rental truck zoomed at least 10 blocks down a popular bike bath from...

Never a Naturopath around...

...when you really, really need one..."I have participated in as least 15 Famadihana ceremonies and I've never caught the plague." Some 1,300 people have been infected by the deadly Medieval disease.And while we're on quaint local customs...Asiya Bibi was desperate to end her arranged two-month-old marriage, police say, and decided the best way would be to pull the plug on her husband, Amjad, with...

I'm just waiting for the...

..."Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" to weigh in...HALIFAX — In what is being described as a first for the RCMP, the Mounties in Nova Scotia are now offering victims, witnesses and police officers the option to swear legal oaths on an eagle feather, instead of using a Bible or offering an affirmation.********** RELATED: Speaking of local customs...According to Toronto police, the man was...

As per usual, the meatiest part is...

...in the comments..."I'm giving the kids Carbon Credits, Planned Parenthood Pamphlets and copies of the Kora...

Enough of this screwing around...

...gimmee my global warming right now...

Don't blame me...

...I didn't vote for them...Twenty-one minutes after she responded “I have no records” to a Freedom of Information request seeking documents from the office of outgoing Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on the infamous cancelled gas plants fiasco, Laura Miller’s “life partner” Peter Faist tried to wipe clean her desktop computer. It was Jan. 24, 20...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I don't feel safe at Jane and Finch. Can we take that down?"********** RELATED: Well... not all of them...

The spirit is rising

"Bishop Wayne Marlon Jones told a troubled parishioner that having sex with him was the only way to purge evil spirits haunting her, his trial heard Wednesday."********** RELATED: Those darn "Northenders"...Police are looking for two suspects after an early morning shooting in the city’s north end. Paramedics say a 21-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to a trauma...

"A Year in the Life"

"I didn’t choose to be Karma’s janitor, it chose me." — David Burge (@iowahawkblog)In ancient Greece: The sin of thinking you are above the gods or forgetting to give them credit when they have helped you. Committing hubris always leads to NEMESIS, the gods' punishme...

PM Selfie's "Apologize for Everything" tour...

...dishes out another $31,000,000...Three Canadians who were tortured in Syria have received just over $31-million in federal compensation. In March, Goodale and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland apologized to the men on behalf of the government. "We hope that the steps taken today will support...

Entitled to her "entitlements"

I can't even get a family physician...And heaven forbid this government, the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower, should have to make do with working in unrenovated offices.********** MEANWHILE, BACK ON PARLIAMENT HILL:"Like many of you I read that Blacklocks Reporter scoop on the $212,000...

Sigh... yet another country dropped...

...from the vacation list...“Now, adultery by a woman is a very serious attack on a man’s honour and dignity,” the judges wrote. “Societies exist where the adulterous woman is stoned to death. In the Bible, we can read that the adulterous woman should be punished with death.” The judges cited a criminal law from 1886 that called for merely a symbolic penalty against a husband who, finding his wife...

Wanna keep your whiny...

...all too easily bruised millennial progeny safe from the big bad world?********** RELATED: Ice cream, rainbows & unicornsDoes it really matter that there will finally a be Muslim on American television who is saving people instead of blowing them up? In a word: Yes! That’s right, America:...

SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Welcome to Helicopter Glamping at Mains Farm, Thornhill, Stirli...

His lawyer looked at the jurors...

...and solemnly intoned... "Once upon a time..."The accused’s lawyer, Matt Gonzalez, however, said it was all a grand mystery to his client. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal immigrant who had been booted from the U.S. five times didn’t know he had picked up a gun after finding it under a bench, wrapped...

The Wynne-ing... gotta have priorities

Free syringes and methadone for junkies... sweet f@ck-all for low income diabetics...Every day, I check my blood-glucose levels a minimum of four times. Each test strip costs upwards of $2, and is not covered by provincial health insurance. Since May, Liberals have been refusing a long-standing disability...

Ready, Aim, Discuss

As Crowder phrases it at one point in the video, the discussion taking place in this country is generally between two camps: Gun owners and the ill-informed. He’s right in many ways. There are a handful of people who do understand gun laws, despite possibly not owning a firearm, but they’re generally on the side with gun owners. It’s amazing how many people believe, like the one guy, that you don’t...

And Winston Churchill wept...

While both London and New York have populations of around 8 million, figures suggest you are almost six times more likely to be burgled in the British capital than in the US city, and one and a half times more likely to fall victim to a robbery. London has almost three times the number of reported rapes and while the murder rate in New York remains higher, the gap is narrowing dramatically.********** RELATED:...

Too many criminals...

...not enough law-abiding citizenry...Police say they received a call Saturday night about a man being fired at by some people in a vehicle. Police found and chased the vehicle, which they say rammed an RCMP cruiser. An RCMP officer shot and wounded the driver of the suspect vehicle in what police describe as a “response to the driver’s actions.” Brydon Bryce Whitstone of Onion Lake, Sask., died...

All in the family

TORONTO - A senior political staffer nicknamed a project to wipe clean computer hard drives — allegedly to erase data linked to the gas plants scandal — within the office of former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, court documents alleged Thursday. Laura Miller, McGuinty’s former deputy chief of staff, who hired her common-law spouse Peter Faist, an outsider, for the job, dubbed the assignment “Pete’s...

Must be another one of those...

...megalomaniacal "Grad School" killers..."Toronto police responded to a call around 9 a.m. in the area of Finch Avenue and Sentinel Road near Derrydowns Road. The body was reportedly found in a ravine but no other details have been released."Wait a minute... isn't this also the location of Toronto's...

Reaping the "affirmative action" whirlwind

Tedros Ghebreyesus, is a former Ethiopian official who became the World Health Organization's first African director-general this year. His election was not without controversy. He has recently been accused of covering up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia.Professional competence aside, what sort...

Smoke and Mirrors

If Justin can get everybody to spark one up... nobody will be interested in doing the math..."In 2012, we were promised funds from marijuana taxes would benefit our communities, particularly schools. Dr. Harry Bull, the Superintendent of Cherry Creek Schools, one of the largest school districts in the...

Ignorance of the law is no exc...

...wait a freakin' minute..."An Ottawa man has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting his wife because of his honest belief that he had the right to have intercourse with her whenever he wanted. The judge ruled the man was not guilty of sexual assault because the Crown had failed to establish...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Talk about a hardened crimina...

HERE WE GO AGAIN...

Terry Milewski, one of Canada’s most knowledgeable journalists on the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, Canada's worst case of domestic terrorism, asked NDP leader Jagmeet Singh whether it was appropriate for some Canadian Sikhs to put up posters honouring Talwinder Singh Parmar who was identified by the Air India Inquiry as the leader of the terrorist atrocity. Two weeks later, after some pundits...

How many Diversity Officers...

...can the changing economy absorb? "Amanda would have been able to create her own major or minor in gender or ethnic studies. She would have been able to satisfy her first semester humanities requirement by reading Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf. Her second semester, she could have...

Wynne-ing AND LOSING

Kathleen Wynne's Liberals are willing to let Ontario Power Generation take on 4 billion dollars of extra debt... to keep it off the province's books...That's not simply my opinion... that comes from Ontario's Auditor General...TORONTO - Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government is flouting accounting rules...

Maisum Ansari, Maisum Ansari...

...that sounds so familiar..."Police said the total seizure equals 42 kilograms or 420,000 doses of carfentanil with a street value estimated at $13 million. It’s believed to be the largest seizure of the drug in the country. In addition to the firearm-related charges, Ansari now faces a charge of...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL - classes are POINTLESS."********** RELATED: Gotta have priorities, right?Cynthia Trevillion, 64, a teacher at Chicago’s Waldorf School, was struck in the head by a bullet as she walked down the street...

Like father, like mother...

...like daughter...The explanation comes after foundation board member Chelsea Clinton ducked questions about Weinstein’s money from a reporter while attending a Clinton Global Initiative University event at Northeastern University in Boston on Saturday. The former first daughter hustled out a side...

Vibrant urban cultural mosaic

Meet Dr. Kitty...Call me a deplorable clinger... but teenage plastic surgeons in basement operating rooms would likely raise a few red flags in my neck of the woods. ********** RELATED: In other "signs of the times" newsBetween 1998 and 2015, chlamydia has risen from 39,372 to 116,499 annual cases...

In other "victimless crime" news

"The victim in a deadly shooting outside a North York plaza near Finch Avenue and Milvan Drive at around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday night has been identified. Reports from the scene indicate that 43-year-old James Clayton Holland was locking up a marijuana dispensary in the plaza when he was shot."Toronto’s...

Gotta do away with that whole...

..."level playing field" thing...If the NFL is to prove their progressive cred, they must begin to bring social justice to their games and play by the same progressive rules that have been adopted in all other spheres of life. First of all, they must "level the playing field" by building a slope. Let's call it Affirmative Action in Spor...

Lawrence Heights, Lawrence Heights...

...isn't that where all the Rhodes Scholars come from?"A man in his 20s is fighting for his life after a shooting in Lawrence Heights Friday night. Toronto Police say gunfire erupted at an apartment complex on old Meadow Lane, northeast of Allen Rd. and Lawrence Ave. W., around 11:10 p.m."********** RELATED:...

Remember back... you were a kid...

...people used to set each other on fire? Yeah... me neither..."Police are looking for three suspects after two young men were doused with gas and nearly set on fire during a confrontation in the parking lot of Agincourt Mall earlier this month."Meanwhile... just across town, the Somali "community"...

Consciousness of Guilt...

...it's a bitch...Boyle is refusing to board an American military plane in Pakistan waiting to take them home. Some officials say Roberts is fearful of perhaps being sent to Guantanamo Bay, based off his background. Boyle was previously married to the sister of Omar Khadr, a Canadian man who spent 10 years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in 2002 in a firefight at an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.Is...

No good deed goes unpunished

Oh, look... a simple test for detecting lying & cheating, uh... I mean "Islamophobia"..."Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually adults." "Herlitz was quickly fired...

Sometimes the caption...

...makes all the difference...

You had me at...

...Plasma Coil Bottle Launcher..."This bottle launcher is a combination of some of my earlier alcohol fueled launchers and the propane pop gun project from a few years ago. I hope you enjoy this one, I'm very happy with how it turned ou...

Gotta love that minimalist journalism...

...over at Canada's national broadcaster..."Homicide detectives have identified a boy who was shot and killed in the parking lot of an elementary school in Etobicoke on Sunday night as 16-year-old Zakariye Ali."Interestingly, CP24 seems to have some information the CBC couldn't seem to unearth..."Police earlier described the suspect as a black male in his 20s with a slim build. He was last seen wearing...

It's all about "friction"

You can Make a Bump Stock on a 3D Printer. No, I can’t. I don’t own a 3D printer. Neither do most criminals. What you mean is that the few people who own 3D printers and have the skill to use them can print bump stocks. Chances are, you’re not one of those people. Again, laws are not designed to stop the most motivated super-criminals. They have lots of ways to get weapo...

Dear United States of America...

...you sure you want to move to "socialised medicine?"A Nova Scotia hospital has rewritten wait-time rules and end-of-life protocols in response to the disturbing story of how a 68-year-old man dying from pancreatic cancer languished for six hours in an ER hallw...

Diversity might be Justy's strength...

...I'm simply thankful I no longer live in gang-happy Hogtown..."Homicide investigators say two suspects wanted in an ongoing murder investigation have turned themselves in." "19-year-old Zayn Q. Chaudry and 20-year-old Yahya Abdirahman are facing first-degree murder charges in connection with the...

"There has been one arrest..."

"...of a male and police say “Enquiries to establish the circumstances and motive are underway.”Nine people taken to hospital... doesn't sound like a typical driver/ pedestrian interaction. ********** UPDATE: Cops say "not terrorism"...An update from the force said the incident was now being treated...

How can you tell if the bees are queer?

"Oh, dahling... I wouldn't be caught dead at a heteronormative beekeeping venue"...FROM THE COMMENTS:"Of course it's different. this is from section 25b of the gay agenda which specifies that making the bees look fabulous causes them to produce honey that makes people gay when they eat i...

What's really horrifying...

...is that these two are being portrayed as "victims"...The brothers earlier pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm, robbery and uttering death threats after they snatched a 17-year-old girl from a bus stop off a residential street on Nov. 14, 2014 and took her to...

Honesty

Alternate headline: “Statistician obviously never wants a job in media again...” "By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout. I was still anti-gun, at least from the point of view of most gun owners, and I don’t want a gun in my...

Justin Trudeau's "Khadr Doctrine"

I'm from the government...I'm here to save you...The Somali refugee accused of stabbing an Edmonton police constable on the weekend and running down four pedestrians was ordered to be deported from the United States in 2011 by a U.S. immigration judge. But Sharif was released on Nov. 23, 2011, on...

"During the opening monologue..."

"...on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel cried over the Las Vegas attack, pushed for more gun control, bad-mouthed Republicans, but did not say a word about the number of innocents gunned down in Chicago every month." "Kimmel rightly lamented the “59 innocent” who are dead as result of...

Who's Zoomin' Who?

- TORONTO - The Crown confirms two suspects have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of Amir Jamal and Tyler McLean in the parking lot of a port lands nightclub early on Sunday morning. The suspects, identified as Ali Abdurisaq, 23, of Toronto and Mohamed Tanade, 24, of Edmonton were arrested Monday night, police sa...

CBS legal Exec says Vegas victims...

...are Trump supporters and got what they deserved...“I’m actually not even sympathetic because country music fans often are Republican gun toters,” wrote Geftman-Gold on Facebook, perhaps referring to Sandy Hook.It's possible Ms. Geftman-Gold would like to rethink this obvious idiocy..."Another Canadian victim is Jessica Klymchuk, a single mother of four from Valleyview, Alberta. Her grandmother,...

A world gone mad

UPDATE: Two Canadians among those murdered...Jordan McIldoon, 23, of Maple Ridge, B.C., was among the dozens of people killed when a gunman opened fired on a large crowd near the end of an outdoor country music festival on the Vegas Strip. The second Canadian who died in the attack is a woman from...

Libs and Dippers attempting to...

...wipe out conscience and free speech..."Now the Liberals want to micro-manage even the voices of the Opposition? Parliament’s rules dictate that the chair of this committee be appointed by the leader of the Opposition." "That ought to mean at least one voice that the Liberals do not have the right to contro...

It raises an interesting question...

...who exactly does Canada turn away?"The suspect, identified by multiple media outlets as Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, is originally from Somalia and has claimed refugee status in Canada, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand. An ISIS flag was found inside the suspect’s car."So how did an ISIS sympathizer slip past the security apparatus? Apparently, he didn't......

So, Justin... just spitballin' here...

...but I'm guessing this wasn't some lone-wolf Jehovah's Witness..."The video shows a white Chevy Malibu driving directly through a road barricade at an intersection near Commonwealth, hitting a police officer who goes flying through the air before he is then attacked." "The stabbing of a police officer...

Welcome to John Tory's Toronto...

...one, scratch that... three dead, one down... must be Saturday, the weekend...TORONTO – Police say they’re investigating a homicide at North York Sheridan Mall for the second time in one month. The victim, 32-year-old John Trevor Paul, was pronounced dead in hospital.And..."A man in Etobicoke is...

"The budget will balance itself..."

...says Justin "You can't get there from here" Trudeau...Days after Justin Trudeau told the United Nations that his government was working hard to improve the quality of life for indigenous peoples in Canada, it has emerged that his government spent more than $110,000 in legal fees to avoid spending...