-- "Amid calls for her immediate resignation, Fresno Unified trustee Keshia Thomas has apologized for fraudulently claiming that former high school football coach Don Arax called her son the n-word. Those words, in the view of Arax’s attorney, Brian Whelan, do not constitute genuine contrition. 'This is not an apology. It is the latest version of a story that finally ran out of places to go." --
-- "Poland sees a pattern of escalating Russian pressure on multiple fronts. 'We are hurrying to be prepared for war since Russia is giving us and our neighbors constant signals that they want us back as their vassals, their colonial backyard,' said one diplomat." --
-- "Portugal President António José Segurohas has banned face-coverings in public. Under the law, forcing another person to cover their face is punishable by up to three years in prison.." --
What... you don't get the historical reference?
Nota bene...
-- "There are currently 24 states that have banned the burqa and niqab, both Muslim-majority countries and non-Muslim countries." --
-- "Harvard University will pay $53 million to settle a ghoulish class-action suit brought by families claiming imprisoned former morgue manager Cedric Lodge mishandled the bodies of their loved ones donated to its medical school and even sold their body parts on the black market." --
-- "Peel Regional Police are urging potential victims of an online dating extortion scheme to come forward after a victim was extorted out of $6,000 during a meet-up in Brampton. Harwinder Singh, 35, and Riya Riya, 23, are charged with forcible confinement, robbery and extortion. Singh faces a separate charge of uttering threats." --
-- "Toronto Police say unknown suspects were attempting to steal a vehicle from a home near Kingston and McCowan roads when a resident of the home fired a gun during the encounter. The suspects fled before officers arrived. The resident who discharged the firearm has been charged." --
UPDATE: Francis Betinvieh, 37... is charged with discharging a firearm recklessly
You think the cops are on your side? Think again...
-- "Pembina Valley RCMP say a 66-year-old Manitoba man is facing charges for firing shots towards the vehicles of thieves stealing from his property." --And...
-- "Toronto Police have launched an investigation into a shooting after a man in his 30s walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound on Tuesday evening. There is no information about a potential suspect at this time." --Meanwhile Peel cops are busy hunting racists.
-- "Alleged racist Zead Ramadan, 57, with no experience of fund management is in charge of the embattled West Harlem Development Corporation’s $56 million endowment, The Post has learned. Ramadan, 57, managed a cafe in Upper Manhattan and had a business selling sandwiches at coffee stations at Columbia University hospitals before being appointed as executive director of the WHDC in 2020." --And don't get me started on polling...
-- "A poll claiming incumbent Mayor Karen Bass was leading council member Nithya Raman by a wide margin in the Los Angeles mayoral race was fake, according to Median Strategies, the company behind the survey." --
-- "Defence lawyer Gary Grill called the evidence condensed but complex. 'Identity is conceded. He is at least guilty of aggravated assault,' Grill told Dineen in relation to the woman who was wounded." --Nowhere is safe anymore...
-- "A shooting in downtown Kitchener has sent a 21-year-old man in hospital in critical condition, and three suspects on the loose." --
-- "Fraud is so rampant in this demographic that it’s rewarded instead of punished,' ACT for America Founder Brigitte Gabriel posted on X. 'When the system celebrates the looters, you have a culture problem.' Salman Ahmed Elmi who once received an 'outstanding refugee' award from the state government has been charged with Medicaid fraud to bill Medicaid for over $1 million in fraudulent services." --Will Minnesotans vote for change?
-- "Locals have also reportedly shown high levels of distrust of foreign humanitarian aid workers and others in the health sector, attacking quarantine locations, stealing the bodies of the dead, and spreading rumors that Ebola is not a real disease." --And meet 'Georgia man', Babajide Adesayo.
-- "One person has serious injuries after a shooting near Kipling and Finch avenues in Etobicoke Tuesday morning. The suspect, or suspects, fled the scene prior to the arrival of police. No descriptions have been released." --And...
-- "Toronto Police are investigating after gunfire struck a home and several parked vehicles in a residential neighbourhood in Rexdale early Tuesday morning." --
Is there nowhere that's safe anymore?
And, remember to get out and enjoy nature.
-- |The Special Investigations Unit said Monday that OPP Const. Zahid Javed from the Southern Georgian Bay detachment is facing three counts of sexual assault and three counts of breach of trust. The charges stem from allegations involving three women and incidents the SIU says took place between August 2024 and October 2025." --
This is hardly the first time this has happened.
I can't be the only one who sees the disconnect here...
-- "Wife-beating is instructed by the Qur'an and the Hadiths, and has been an accepted part of Islam law since its inception. Quran 4:34 states that men are maintainers of women." --Why do western countries do this to themselves?
-- "Jahnoi Bell, 21, and the two 17-year-olds, face two counts each of first-degree murder. Mcaium Aarons, 25, has been charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and breach of probation order. Jayden Christmah, 23, faces one charge of possession of firearm for the purpose of trafficking." --
Just wait until they get bail.
No gun... no problem...
-- "Police have made two arrests after a man was stabbed in the back near Danforth and Broadview avenues in Toronto’s east end last week." --
-- "Fort Worth Police indicated, 'The intruder, Darius Levy, 29, who was killed, had a active protective order filed against him involving someone who lives at the home.'" --
-- "Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Miceli said human remains were found at Ellesmere and Markham roads in Scarborough Sunday afternoon." --
-- "Anyone who kills or captures and hands over an invading American military personnel will receive a reward equivalent to $30,000 or 5 billion tomans from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army,' Army chief Amir Hatami said, using an informal unit equivalent to 10,000 Iranian rials." --If you have anything you want to say to Amir Hatami, best not put it off for too long.
-- "'TORONTO MAN' Anthony Christopher David McLaughlin, 36, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon in connection with the unprovoked stabbing of a TTC employee on Friday." --Can we all agree that ol' artsy Anthony needs to be sat in a cage with the door welded shut... rather than being allowed to wander the 'field of folk?'
