-- "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." --
-- "Toronto police say 18-year-old Kwabena Ameyaw and three 16-year-olds are facing multiple firearms-related charges after they were found with a loaded firearm." --
How about someone start a GoFundMe to send ol' Kwabena back to his peoples in Ghana?
And let's dump this guy too.
-- "Felice Passarelli, 71, admitted to the unlawful killing of 58-year-old Param Kaur, stabbing her multiple times in the neck and on the side of her face." --
Yet again... it's the guys with the way-cool names.
In other McStabby news...
-- "A man has been rushed to hospital following a stabbing in Roncesvalles Village in Toronto’s west end late Tuesday morning." --
-- "Toronto Police say Roberto Carlos Ghiocel, 22, is in custody and a female suspect is outstanding after a distraction theft targeting an elderly man in Toronto." --In the Romanian language, Ghiocel means 'snowdrop.'
-- “'As such we will consider employees who self-declare as being a black person, a racialized person, a person living with a disability, a First Nation, an Inuit, a Métis or a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community for this opportunity before others,' the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said." --Remember 'Post-National' staters... you voted for this.
-- "Pedophile child killer Douglas Floyd Lambier, 63, sentenced to life in prison for smothering his girlfriend’s 9-year-old grandson is getting a a 60-day unescorted temporary absence from the minimum-security facility where he’s locked up in British Columbia." --
-- "Hamilton Police have released photos of a suspect wanted in connection with the FATAL ASSAULT OF A MAN near Wentworth and Bristol streets. The suspect is described as a Black male with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, white shorts, and a white bucket-style hat." --Did you know there is a FATAL ASSAULTER WEBPAGE?
-- "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will seek a second term as the Mayor of the city that repeatedly logs the nation’s highest number of homicides. For the 12-month period preceding September 4, there were 435 homicides reported in the city... the risk of being murdered in Chicago is 'already considerably higher than the risk of dying in a vehicle crash in the entire state of Illinois.'" --
Nota bene... Johnson, 50, said he plans to 'double down' on his progressive agenda.
THE MUSIC THAT SOOTHES MEN'S SOULS...
-- "Surveillance footage shows the 22-year-old rapper, real name Mikquale Cooper, strolling out of a BP gas station and into his white Tesla where his pregnant girlfriend was waiting." --In other Mayoral news...
-- "Georgia’s youngest elected Mayor, Jayden Williams was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged sexually suggestive messages and images with an 18-year-old high school student." --
-- "A teenage boy has died after he was shot at Jane Street and Finch Avenue in North York on Monday afternoon. Investigators have not released any suspect descriptions." --I'm so old, I remember actual police work...
-- "'For the person who did this, get a lawyer, and turn yourself in,' said Supt. Jack Gurr." --
UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 17-year-old Cashie Auguste.
In other diversity/strength news...
-- "The murder trial of Alliston man, Ahmet Duzguner, 53, accused of killing his ex-wife in what police described as an ‘execution style’ shooting, is underway in a Barrie courtroom." --
-- "Korchinski-Paquet’s death sparked protests in Toronto calling for changes to the way police officers respond to mental health crises. Her family had indicated that she was experiencing a mental health crisis in the moments leading up to her death." --Wait a minute...
-- "Five 911 calls were made by Korchinski-Paquet, her mother and brother, after Korchinski-Paquet and her brother were engaged in a fight. She apparently 'fell while trying unsuccessfully to vault to a neighbouring balcony.'" --
-- "Hate-filled Carnegie Mellon University Professor Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born academic, is on a leave of absence as the school probes her 'hostile and threatening' social media history, which included calling for a 'white man” to die' while she danced. Her hateful online history included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an 'excruciating painful death' and celebrating the death of 'shitbag' Charlie Kirk." --
-- "Edmonton Police officers shot and killed a 36-year-old man Sunday morning. In a media release at 10:10 p.m., the Edmonton Police Service said officers were called to a home near Donsdale Drive and 45 Avenue, where a man with a gun had entered and shot a woman and infant." --NOTA BENE...
-- "The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been notified to determine whether there was officer misconduct." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Toronto Police say a male haslife-threatening injuries after being shot at Jane Street and Finch Avenue in North York on Monday afternoon." --
-- "Instead of the four-year penitentiary penalty proposed by an assistant Crown attorney, a Brantford Judge sentenced 31-year-old Darris James Wilson to two years of house arrest for dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm. Justice Gethin Edward considered how colonialization of the Six Nations band had led to a 'major disconnection' to Wilson’s culture that, in turn, led him into 'over-consumption of alcohol and unhealthy relationships.'" --Special rules for special people...
-- "A $5.5-million Winnipeg-area daycare built with provincial funds in 2024 on behalf of the Peguis First Nation Real Estate Trust sits vacant, derelict and surrounded by weeds after being plundered by scavengers and damaged by flooding." --
-- "Zarian Sanders is facing multiple felony charges after police say he and Devonta Johnson kicked in an apartment door, triggering a violent fight that left the second intruder dead." --And, yet again... it's the guys with the way-cool names.
-- "The Telegraph revealed in June that the central bank had dropped key figures in British history such as Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from the banknotes after being told they were 'elitist and divisive.'" --
-- "Investigators were called to Leslie Street and Lesmill Road area, just south of Highway 401, for reports of a serious, life-threatening stabbing of a 19-year-old man just before 10 p.m. Sunday." --
