-- "France deployed 70,000 police officers. backed by armored vehicles, drones and helicopters Thursday as 270,000 people took to the streets for nationwide strikes and protests after left-wing groups called for a mobilization." --It gets better...
-- "In Paris, the Eiffel Tower was closed; in Lyon, French riot police fired tear gas and charged a group of protesters; and near Toulouse, a high school was set on fire." --
-- "Captain Kenneth Kunkel, a 59-year-old grandfather is non-ambulatory and fighting to return to a normal life after being tripped and attacked by a 48-year-old woman named Estela Quintanilla. Quintanilla’s social media profiles say she attended Mohawk College and works for an apartment rental company." --Nota bene... Kunkel is recovering from same-day spinal surgery
-- "The audio of the October 15, 2026, 911 call during the shooting at Bend, Oregon’s Silver Rail Elementary has been released, and the dispatcher can be heard telling 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco 'not to do anything.'" --Thank all the gods, this Good Samaritan ignored her...
-- "The 16-year-old gunman killed a teacher and three students before Giamanco, whose two daughters were inside the school, confronted and fatally shot him." --
-- "Lieberman said that it was especially hurtful to learn that the boycott was scheduled on eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht — the 1938 Nazi-led riots that sacked Jewish communities in Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht resulted in the murders of at least 91 Jews on Nov. 9 and 10." --
-- "An Ontario court has certified a class-action lawsuit against TD Bank and former CEO Bharat Masrani alleging long-standing deficiencies in TD's anti-money laundering program between 2021 and 2024 and prioritized profits over regulatory compliance." --
-- "Ontario Provincial Police have charged Preston Kowalchuk, 48, Nicholas Mourtzis, 29, and Jacob Sirett, 39, in connection with a vehicle they way was involved in a biker gang-related shooting in Bancroft." --
-- "Investigators identified and arrested Winkle Peter Lejarde, 46, after more than 20 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, alprazolam, methamphetamine, MDMA, hydromorphone, oxycodone, Percocet and 2CB were seized during the execution of search warrants in Toronto." --
-- "Harris County Sheriff's Office homicide investigators say the homeowner, who is in his 80s, told investigators he fired his weapon to stop the man from stealing his property. The man who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene." --Mwanwhile... back at the ranch.
-- "Djibril Youssouf, 32, of Toronto is accused of following a woman and attempting to force his way into her home near Warden and Danforth avenues earlier this week. No further details were immediately released." --And then there's this guy.
-- "Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he was 'doing cartwheels; after the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the U.S. midterm elections. Ford says he has directed his cabinet to head to the United States once the new members are sworn in to build relationships." --
-- "From July through September, search warrants were executed at various locations in Markham, Vaughan, Scarborough, Burlington, London, Milton and the rural village of Ailsa Craig, Ont. Police are still looking for one more suspect – 26-year-old Zongyu Zhu from Markham." --
Of course, that sword cuts both ways...-- "As House Democratic leaders prepare to take the reins of power in Congress, they are also poised to reckon with far-left rebels who could make their lives difficult over the next two years." --
-- "Mustapha Khalil Mechken has pleaded guilty to the 2024 killing of his wife, Narjes Ben Yedder, who was 10 weeks pregnant with his child at the time of her death. Just minutes before he killed Ben Yedder, he researched how much prison time a person is expected to serve for murder." --Ol' Mustapha stabbed her 49 times. Thirty-two of the stab wounds were to her abdomen.
-- "Toronto man Jean Peralta Marseille, 42, is facing charges in connection to a human trafficking investigation in the Greater Toronto Area." --
-- "A man was seriously injured after a stabbing at Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue in Toronto’s west end on Tuesday morning. A suspect was arrested at the scene." --Problem satisfactorily resolved, I'd say...
-- "The 19-year-old suspect was carrying an unlicenced firearm, Peel police said." --Sorry, Abdul... beating women is a no-no here...
-- "Toronto Police have arrested Abdul Karim Brat Ali, 50, after he assaulted a parking enforcement officer and stole her handheld ticket machine in downtown Toronto on Monday." --It could be worse, I guess.
-- "Toronto Police are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted by ride share driver 32-year-old Sahib Brar of Brampton on Halloween night just before 10 p.m. in the Yonge-Church corridor." --And then, there's Waleed Ameen Adam Abdelrahman. Finally...
-- "Stasky St Clair, 45, has been arrested after shooting another person outside a bar at Danforth and Greenwood avenues in Toronto’s east end." --Oh yeah... ol Stasky was already under a firearms prohibition order.
-- "According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Canada’s federal debt is growing by $179 million a day. Interest alone costs taxpayers more than $1 billion every week." --Meanwhile... the CBC earns it's 1.5 billion taxpayer dollar payoff.
-- "'I just want all the evil not to be in my life,” Duran Ross Buffalo, 41, told Justice Michele Hollins. 'I don’t want to be hurt … I don’t want the evil near me.' Since 1999 Buffalo has been convicted of sexually abusing five children between the ages of four and 16 and the brutal rape of a 90-year-old Calgary woman after breaking into her northwest apartment." --Call 911, they said...
-- "Calgary police disputed the victim’s claims, instead blaming her dementia and sending her to get an inspection for a bladder infection. But after Buffalo’s shirt was found in her apartment, a rape kit exam was conducted, leading to his arrest in February." --
-- “'But recognizing a potential suspect and having enough evidence to arrest them are two different things. Suspicion alone isn’t enough. Police need reasonable grounds, supported by evidence, to make an arrest,' Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said on Monday." --Yeah... I'm calling bullshit...
-- "A 22-year-old (licensed, registered firearms owner) is facing murder charges after he shot and killed an armed man who was attempting to rob his family home in Milton." --The thing is... it's way worse than you imagine.
-- "York Regional Police have arrested 42-year-old Julian Yousif in connection with a commercial robbery at Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue in Vaughan." --And...
-- "Durham Regional Police are investigating after a home and two vehicles were hit by gunfire in Pickering on Sunday." --
-- "The emerging alliance between the radical left and Islamic migrant background youths for the purpose of sowing public unrest, seen in France over the past month, appears to have been replicated on Halloween evening in the multicultural German city of Frankfurt. A total of one hundred police officers were injured during the riots in Frankfurt, including one seriously." --
-- "Shopkeepers in Paris are stocking up on iron bars, batons, tear gas canisters, pepper spray, and baseball bats, in anticipation of more mob violence and looting as they no longer trust that the police will adequately protect them." --
-- "Ontario Provincial Police say no seatbelts was a factor in the deaths of two 19-year-old men and two younger girls. The single-vehicle crash came after the vehicle left the roadway, struck a guardrail and entered a ravine outside of Guelph early Saturday morning." --This didn't have to end up this way... an object lesson for all of their friends.
-- "A 40-year-old woman who has two previous DUI arrests, is facing another impaired driving charge following a three-vehicle crash in Etobicoke on Sunday." --
-- "A woman was killed during a stabbing in North York on Saturday, according to Toronto Police. The suspect and victim were known to each other and that the suspect took his own life at the scene. No other details were released." --I'm so old, I remember when people just got divorced.
