UPDATE: TORONTO HOMICIDE #07/2026...

-- "The victim has now been identified as Daniel Stopnicki, 47, of Toronto.  Michaelo Markicevic, 67, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder." --

Markicevic, Markicevic... that sounds so familiar.

ASK BRANDON JOHNSON... NOTHING THOSE 'REPARATIONS' BUCKS WON'T FIX...

-- "The Chicago Tribune noted that gun-related violence was up during the first quarter of 2026, with Chicago recording 105 homicides through the first week of April, up slightly from the 98 killings seen in the same time period in 2025.” --

YEAH... THERE'S A SHOCKER...

-- "Turns out socialist slogans don’t survive contact with reality." --

And look what he's doing with tax rates. 

Could be worse...

-- "California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the ring defrauded the state of more than $267 million through fraudulent billing to Medi-Cal, the state-administered Medicaid program. In total, 21 people have been charged." --

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE...

-- "New York intends to build a large nuclear-power facility, the first major new U.S. plant undertaken in more than 15 years and a big test of President Trump’s promise to expedite permitting for such projects." --

The worm is apparently turning all over the place...

-- "BBC News presenter Martine Croxall, who has worked at the BBC for more than three decades, was seen rolling her eyes at the language used in the original newscast’s script — before she swiftly took matters into her own hands." --

FROM THE COMMENTS...

-- "Sounds like the Kennedy Center got drunk and drove off a bridge killing all the secretaries this time." --

BLACK LIVES MATTER NEW YORK WAS APPARENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT...

-- "'Look how fucked up my shoes are,' she said in a clip that a fan posted on X. 'This shoe cost me three bands. All because of Trump. Now I like him lesser!'" --

Black community goes with loud, fat and proud.

THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT, HE'S GOTTA WEAR SHADES...

-- "Nearly twenty thousand MAGA die-hards flooded Madison Square Garden for a sold out rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City.   Tens of thousands of people were turned away as the arena reached capacity, with scores of Trump supporters spilling into nearby bars to watch the rally." --

Meanwhile... back at the puppet theater...

-- "Critics on social media pounced on clips of Harris quoting Psalms, saying she debuted a new ‘pastor’ accent, comparing her inflection to Martin Luther King's tenor." --

 

JUST ANOTHER DAY AT TORONTO METROSEXUAL UNIVERSITY

-- "TMU issued an alert shortly after noon on Monday that a person with an axe was allegedly seen at Victoria Street and Gould Street, and walking north toward Gerrard." --

I'M SO OLD, I REMEMBER 'TORONTO THE GOOD'

-- "A man and a woman have been taken to the hospital, one in life-threatening condition, after being pulled out from Lake Ontario on Monday afternoon. Police are calling the incident 'suspicious.'" --

SO OBVIOUSLY, WHAT TORONTO NEEDS IS MORE PEOPLE

-- "The Ontario government is expected to announce sweeping housing changes on Tuesday that will override municipal zoning laws in some situations and allow for the construction of up to three units on each residential lot." --

I SMELL A, WELL... YOU KNOW

-- "Toronto has more rats than any other city in the country, according to a report released by Orkin Canada Wednesday. Toronto (1) and Mississauga (5) both made the top five, while Toronto neighbourhoods Scarborough (11), North York (22) and Etobicoke (24) were also named individually." --

FROM THE COMMENTS:

San Fran does everybody else a service by supporting and attracting the diseased and homeless. The rest of us don't want that mess. We should give San Fran an award like 'The Bag of Crap and Needles Emmy'.

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

TORONTO - A second arrest has been made in connection with the daylight shooting of two young sisters, ages five and nine, at a Scarborough playground in June. 23-year-old Tarrick Rhoden, was taken into custody in the area of Stanhope Airport Road and North Shore Road in Algonquin Highlands on Wednesday.

I'm so old... I remember when...

...sacrificing people to your gawds was something you only saw in Sunday afternoon Tarzan movies... and as usual, the whole thing is a mystery...

"Neil Basu, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner for counter-terrorism said, 'It appears to have been a deliberate act, but what the motive was we can’t answer at the moment.'"

The western media, CBC included, seems to feel this may be some sort of anti-bollard movement...New York Times doubles down... now it's a car crash.

Try as they might, to control the narrative, news keeps slipping out...

A man who drove a car into London pedestrians outside Britain's parliament this morning was a British citizen who originally came from another country, British security minister Ben Wallace has said.

You know... like this guy.

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RELATED: Same old, same old...

"Much of the media, led by the CBC and the Toronto Star, accepted this version of the tragedy, and asserted that the mass shooting had not been a terrorist attack, while blaming a breakdown in the mental-health-care system for Hussain's actions and calling for stricter gun-control regulations."

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LAST WORD: Sweden put to the torch