-- "Former President Joe Biden lost his bid Monday to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with his longtime ghostwriter that were used in special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s unlawful hoarding of classified information." --
-- "A federal judge has granted a last-minute reprieve for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash, temporarily preventing his imminent deportation to India. Sixteen people died, and 13 more were injured, sparking a nationwide outpouring of grief." --Nota bene...
-- "A criminal conviction that carries a sentence of more than six months makes a permanent resident ineligible to remain in the country." --
No wonder so many people think Canada is a joke.
AND NEW YORK STATE SAYS... 'HOLD MY BEER'...
-- "Lawmakers in New York are considering a series of 'four bad bills' that critics are warning could lead to the release of mass murderers, serial killers and other violent convicts." --
-- "A 69-year-old resident of a homeless encampment is dead and a suspect remains at large after a shooting says Abbotsford Police Department. They say the shooting is believed to be a targeted incident." --It's reassuring to know that Inspector Clouseau is on the case.
-- "A resurfaced post by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy discussing the people Democrats 'care about most' is sparking social media outrage… ‘So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.’" --Funny how that works...
-- "DHS said two people from a family unit were arrested, saying the family had outstanding removal orders and was in the U.S. illegally." --
-- "Long waits for surgery and medical treatment cost Canadians almost $4.2 billion in lost wages and productivity last year. This latest Fraser Institute study draws upon data from our annual Waiting Your Turn survey of Canadian physicians who, in 2025, reported the national median waiting time from specialist to appointment to treatment was 13.3 weeks." --This is Justin Trudeau's... 'NEW CANADA'...
-- "The post-nationalists venerated minority cultures, mostly because they experienced 'diversity' through the lens of bourgeois consumption and status jockeying." --<
-- "Mamdani is claiming that’s not the issue, but 10 out of 16 of the dead had been in the homeless shelter system. He’s issuing ChatGPT press release about how all the dead were individual precious lives." --From the comments...
-- "Give credit where credit is due! He has done more to solve the homeless problem and with less expenditure of the pubic funds then Gavin Newsome or any other of his fellow travellers." --
-- "Toronto Public Health is warning residents after a sharp increase in opioid overdoses was recorded in the city over the holiday period. According to an alert issued by the agency, Toronto paramedic services responded to 122 suspected opioid overdose–related calls between Dec. 20 and Dec. 28. That figure is 35 per cent higher than the two-year average for the same time frame." --The land where tax dollars disappear...
-- "When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto’s University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year." --And it's seemingly a never-ending story.
-- "Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reported in 2023 that despite the rapid increase in the size of the federal public service, the Trudeau government was also spending $21.4 billion annually hiring outside help – 106% more than the $10.4 billion spent when Trudeau took power in 2015." --
-- "Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal to spare his life in exchange for a guilty plea in the murders of four University of Idaho students." --Nota bene...
-- "The family of Kaylee Goncalves says, 'We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho. They have failed us.' The family was not consulted by prosecutors before the deal was struck." --
-- "The National Diversity Council, a prominent diversity, equity, and inclusion nonprofit declared bankruptcy this month after its board accused its founder, R. Dennis Kennedy and top employees of stealing millions of dollars." --
-- "Stephanie Dowells, a 62-year-old grandmother was killed while having an overnight 'conjugal visit' with her convicted murderer husband David Brinson at a California prison. Brinson, 54, was found guilty of killing four men in 1993. He has not been charged with his wife's murder." --And there's this...
-- "Cierra Stockard was swimming with the gentle sea creatures during spring break when one of the animals lifted her into the air — and she fell, landing on the dolphin’s dorsal fin." --And this.
-- "Moore published a lengthy blog post on Tuesday titled, ‘Our Muslim Boy Wonder,’ in which he warned that by deporting illegal immigrants, the U.S. may miss out on the person who could cure cancer." --You can trust the folks who come from the 'Land of Make-Believe.'
-- "Cameron J. Talley, the lawyer for Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson acknowledged Monday that his client fired the deadly shot that killed his wife but contended it was an accident." --
-- "A black, queer woman will play the part of Jesus Christ in 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at this summer at the Hollywood Bowl. Cynthia Erivo, 37, who played Elphaba in film production of 'Wicked' identifies as queer and bisexual." --Oh... it gets better.
-- "The appointment of singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie to the Order of Canada has been terminated by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. The move comes after a CBC report in 2023 questioned Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous heritage, saying it found a birth certificate for 'Beverley Jean Santamaria' that indicated she was born in 1941 in Massachusetts." --It gets better...
-- "Family members in the U.S. told CBC that Sainte-Marie was not adopted and doesn’t have Indigenous ancestry." --
-- "The number of ER visits over the last decade have increased by more than 285% while the number of opioid overdose deaths have increased by more than 290%. There is no system in the world, except one driven by blind partisanship or ideology, where those kinds of numbers are considered a success." --Remember John Tory on Toronto's gangbanger gun violence?
-- “I think that kind of talk about sort of, you know, where this all arises from, or sort of who’s to blame, is not very constructive,” Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters in Nathan Phillips Square. --Boinking a much younger female staffer, a la Monica Lewinsky... may even be a lesser sin.
-- "Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. It would cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade. " --
-- "Preliminary data suggests Ottawa is on pace to set yet another record for drug overdose deaths this year with 244 people already lost to the epidemic. In 2023, 188 people died from confirmed drug overdoses." --
-- "Harvard President Claudine Gay may face yet another problem: plagiarism of sections of her Ph.D. dissertation, which would violate Harvard’s own stated policies on academic integrity." --Harvard faculty apparently don't care about that.
-- "Mississauga Transit bus driver Baljeet Dhaliwal, 49, of Brampton, is facing criminal charges in connection with a crash that left a 50-year-old woman dead and several other motorists injured last summer." --Remember that horrific triple fatality on the OC Transpo?
