-- "Chrissy Payne, 47, who tried to snatch the toddler son of a cop outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s had urged him to 'come with Mama' — and previously slugged a white bus passenger while spewing hate, prosecutors said Sunday. Records show that Payne has four other open cases dating to April, including for petty larceny, assault and an earlier hate crime assault in July." --
-- "Raghav Sharma, 27, of Caledon, Ont. has died just days after he was shot at Lawrence Avenue and Underhill Drive in North York. Police have arrested and charged Tahir Mian, 23, of Stouffville with second-degree murder." --
-- "Former President Barack Obama excoriated President Trump’s shocking ban of three media outlets from White House access — but glossed over his own history of trying to block Fox News from covering him. In 2009, Obama's team attempted to block Fox News’ pool reporters from interviewing his “Executive-Pay Czar,” Kenneth Feinberg, while giving other outlets in the pool access. Obama and his administration openly questioned Fox News’ legitimacy as a news organization." --
-- "A community march against gun violence in the city was held in downtown Toronto Saturday. The event comes after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Cashie Auguste earlier this week." --Nota bene... a poetry slam for dead children...
-- "The event included stories from youth and families impacted by gun violence, poetry and singing, therapy and emotional support, food, drinks and a DJ." --
Oh, yeah... the shooter was a 16 year-old banger from the hood.
Hey, while you're at it, let's incentivise homelessness...
-- "A underused parking lot at the rear of a commercial building at Danforth and Birchmount roads in southwest Scarborough could soon be transformed into a micro-home community for people experiencing homelessness." --
-- "All of the accused, German national 'Abed Al G., Danish national Yousif C., Lebanon-born Borhan El-K., Lebanon-born Wael F.M., German national Ahmad I., Lebanon-born Kamel M., Bulgarian national Mohammad S.' belong to the foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Some time ago, the organization’s military wing (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began establishing weapons depots in Europe." --What... you don't get the Sheerhan reference?
-- "Walmart customer Bert Atienza, 77, was beaten to death by Travis White and Erika Mitchell, the parents of a teen employee who he had argued with after accusing her of nearly ramming his wife with a shopping cart. Their teen daughter, who no longer works for Walmart, was charged with assault and battery, aggravated malicious wounding and conspiracy to commit a felony." --
-- "York Region Police are searching for two males wearing all black after gunfire erupted at a home near Warden Avenue and Highway 7 in Markham early Saturday morning. No other details or descriptions of the suspects were immediately available." --And...
-- "Two people were rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a stabbing at a bar near Dufferin Street and St. Clair Avenue in Toronto’s west end early Saturday morning. No suspect descriptions are available at this time." --Maybe we just need more gypsies?
-- "Toronto Police are searching for two suspects after a robbery in Scarborough where a fake gold chain was used to snatch a victim’s personal chain earlier this year." --
-- "Documents discussing a photo of Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet signing the fuselage of Canada’s first F-35 are cloaked in secrecy. While Canada has committed to purchasing 16 F-35s, Prime Minister Mark Carney initiated a review of whether to purchase a remaining 72 jets the RCAF wants. The Canadian military is now refusing to release records, requested under the Access to Information Act, regarding its internal discussions on the decision to suppress the image." --
-- "The elite school later offered the accused frat boys the chance to 'mitigate their conduct by submitting essays,' according to the deeply disturbing filing. Even after passing reforms in 2021, Cornell temporarily banned all fraternity parties a year later when four young women reported being drugged and raped inside frat houses." --Meet some famous Cornell alumni.
-- "President Donald Trump struck a sweeping agreement with Denmark and Greenland this week granting the United States permanent military rights on the strategically placed Arctic island. The deal bars China, Russia and other non-NATO countries from establishing military bases or maintaining troops in Greenland. It also restricts adversaries from investing in sensitive sectors that could pose a threat to U.S. national security." --
-- "Anyone vaguely familiar with Narnia franchise understands that the central character in all seven Narnia novels is Aslan the lion. For those who might not have caught on to this, the true creator of Narnia, Lewis, made it clear that Aslan represents Christ." --
-- "York Regional Police have uncovered a second shooting linked to a violent night outside a 'Vaughan establishment' this past summer, and investigators are now appealing for the public’s help to identify a suspect, described as a Black male, 25–35 years old, with a heavy build who was captured on video fleeing the scene." --
'Establishment', huh... what aren't the media telling you?
Let's keep it vague, right fellas?
-- "A hold-and-secure at three Hamilton schools near Cochrane and Lawrence roads following a double shooting on Friday afternoon has been lifted. One suspect has been arrested, police say, and another remains at large. No description has been released." --
-- "Maryland couple Oscar Pineda and Katerin Monzon-Alvarado were arrested after the death of their 2-month-old daughter who suffered head injuries, with Pineda telling Baltimore Police the girl's injuries were caused by 'Satan slamming a door on the child,' according to charging documents and prosecutors." --
-- "Hamed Mohammed Shafia, convicted of murdering his three sisters and another woman more than 17 years ago is set to have a parole hearing today. The four bodies were found in a car at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont., in June 2009. The trial judge had described the killings as being motivated by the Shafia family’s 'twisted concept of honour.'" --NOTA BENE... The 'other woman' CP24 refers to was his father's second secret wife.
-- "Fertility rates among American women have plummeted by almost a quarter in less than two decades and are set to fall further in the coming years, as roughly one in four births in the US are now to foreign-born mothers, according to government figures." --
-- "Ottawa Police Service says 33-year-old Amin Osman-Ali has been arrested in connection with a shooting on Bank Street on Saturday that left a victim in his 20s with life-threatening injuries." --
-- "A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and faces first-degree murder and failing to comply with probation order charges in connection with the death of 17-year-old Cashie Auguste at Jane Street & Finch Avenue in North York earlier this week." --Meanwhile, over in Little Somalia...
-- "Investigators with the Toronto Police Service say they have arrested a 17-year-old boy after a young person was stabbed at Dixon Road and Islington Avenue in Etobicoke on Thursday morning." --
-- "Michael Young, 46, founder of Culver City-based nonprofit 'Home At Last', who received more than $118 million in public funds was one of three defendants charged Wednesday in separate federal cases targeting fraud and corruption involving money intended to house and provide services to homeless Californians." --
-- "Toronto Police investigators have released security images of a suspect they’re seeking in connection to a sexual assault on a TTC streetcar in the Queen and Peter streets area. He’s described as around five foot ten with a medium build and short black hair." --
-- "Sunita Deoja admits she approached the truck’s driver side and held onto the truck while she attempted to speak with the woman. Her friend Andrew Aps admits to chasing the pickup truck in the parking lot to stop the driver from leaving." --Wait a minute...
-- "Aps admits he does not have a valid license. Peel Police said according to witness testimony and surveillance video they obtained, Aps intentionally struck the vehicle not once but 'multiple times.'" --In this country... if you have a problem with someone you call a cop. At least, that's how it used to work.
-- "Nicholas Bennett, the 19-year-old suspect charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a veteran Toronto police officer Const. Marc Pinizzotto addressed the court virtually from what appeared to be a hospital room." --This 'gun for hire' gangbanger should never be able to look at blue sky again.
-- "Seven residents from Scarborough and a 41-year-old man from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory are facing charges under the Cannabis Act. Last November, the OPP said an investigation into a cannabis production operation on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory led to the seizure of $79 million worth of plants." --Of course... you have to go elsewhere to get the names...
-- "Mario Maurice Baptiste Jr., 41, of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Alan Cheong, 51, Bao Xia Feng, 53, Cai Xia Fu, 69, Gaofeng Li, 56, Xiu Juan Liu, 65, and Chuan Cai Wang, 69, all of Scarborough." --And it's not just here in Ontario.
-- "Trinidad, Texas Police Chief Charles Gregory defended the arrest, claiming Combs’ post had created 'fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community' — despite the city itself posting a notice urging residents to boil their water to 'avoid harmful bacteria' on April 21, weeks before her arrest." --
-- “'Cashie was a loving, humble, well-mannered youth. We raised him proper, no issues. Cashie wasn’t in any gang,' Auguste’s father, Lucas Auguste, said at the Tuesday evening vigil, hosted by Lorna Antwi, a city councillor candidate in Ward 7." --
So... 3:30 in the afternoon, major public intersection, somebody was making a statement. Or it was a totally random murder of an innocent, indeed virtuous bystander.
THERE'S YOUR CHOICES. I don't know which one is more frightening.
There are hints of something rumbling below the surface...
-- "So far, no suspect information has been released. Investigators have also not said what may have motivated the shooting." --Head for CBC news... when you only need half the story.
-- "'If this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well,' someone at TPUSA wrote to the UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long, according to the filing. 'If possible.'" --Wait for it...
-- "'I got you covered,' was Long's alleged reply.
-- "Kyle Sequeira, 31, the Scarborough man found not criminally responsible last year for butchering his parents with a golf club no longer displays symptoms of schizophrenia and has been allowed accompanied passes outside of Whitby’s Ontario Shores psychiatric hospital. seems to be on the fast track to community release and now there’s very little to stop that." --
