If you watch the Oscars... you're a moron

Millionaire dilettantes throw their annual mass beatification, bookended by a month long wave of dionysian self-celebration... while condescending to let you watch how fabulous they are... from the servants quarters...Seriously. No excuse. Morons.

This isn't entertainment, it's a sort of self-inflicted ECT. Is that what you want for your kids?

P.S. - You think this only applies to Tinsel Town? Two words, fanfolk... Justin... Trudeau.

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FROM BREITBART COMMENTS:

"Feelings.. nothing more than feelings."

"Plenty of gun control on Breaking Bad."

"It's all about them feeling good about themselves, not actually fixing problems. I'm surprised they all didn't receive a trophy just for attending the Oscars."

And finally...

"They should award an Oscar for hypocrisy."

Wait for it...

"All Oscars are for hypocrisy."

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RELATED: The pursuit of celebrity...

...has become an actual industry... but what happens when things go off-script?

After jetting around like a king to private islands in private helicopters, “you go off the show and back to your job at Target or bartending, and all of a sudden you’re depressed,” he says. “It’s just inevitable.”

Here's an indisputable fact... Hollywood has killed way more people than my guns.

Dear Dr Hildebrandt...

...this may be less of a problem than you think... as most of these "vulnerable boys" will, at some point, be able to avail themselves of government subsidised surgical breasts & vaginas...

"Let’s first assume that lots of boys play with dolls, and that their entire childhood and subsequent adolescence and adulthood are colored by their experiences with dolls. If this is indeed the case, I submit that this phenomenon is localized in Manhattan, and perhaps in Southern California."

Relax, Dad... just keep buying little Freddie tap shoes, feather boas and glittery dresses until he's old enough to go under the knife.

Two words I never imagined...

...I'd ever put together in a sentence...Vaginal Kungfu.

If Barack Obama had more daughters...

...I guess they'd look like Ariel Agudio...

“We took this incident very seriously and did a thorough and careful investigation,” University Police Chief J. Frank Wiley said in a statement. “The evidence shows that, contrary to how the defendants originally portrayed things, these three individuals were not the victims of a crime. Rather, we allege that they are the perpetrators.”

Predictably, the professional race hustlers bit hard...And she's not afraid to turn the pander up when needed...

Hillary Clinton paid tribute Saturday during her primary victory rally to the mothers of black victims killed by police and civilians – while ignoring the rising number of police killed by gunfire in the line of duty this year.

So far this year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 10 officers have been shot and killed, representing a 900 percent increase in firearms-related officer deaths compared with this time last year.

Just another reason, folks... just another reason.

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RELATED: "Hard Out Here for a Pimp"

"Look, man: I don't think the Oscars is racist or whatever the hell they're saying. Because if the Oscars were racist, they wouldn't have given this to three black gangsta rappers — for a song about pimping.. There's no getting blacker than that. So we flew out to L.A., and they fucking loved us."

Of course, there were a few bumps in the road...

"And that's when they hit me with a real banger: 'You gotta sing live with no vocals.' I was like, 'Damn,' because we always have like a little layer of the vocal tracks behind us when we do concerts. You know — just in case we miss a word. If we're too drunk or something. And they was like: "You gotta say all the words.

It did work out in the end...

"That's when I started feeling better because this was the most different concert I'd ever done. I'm used to looking in the crowd and seeing drug dealers and gangbangers. But this crowd was out there in gowns and tuxes and all kind of shit."

They did report being snubbed by a few folk... Salma Hayek and Prince.

Read the whole thing.

Trudeau makes Nobel shortlist...

...for latest effort to thematically unify Canada...

“I have a feeling that I may well be explaining my choice by saying ‘because it’s 2017,’” said Trudeau, when asked who he was considering for the office. ‘It’s important that we have a Governor General who looks like Canada does.”

Trudeau then winked at the audience, before hissing like a goose and flapping his arms.

Vimy Ridge, Juno Beach... to Teletubbie land...

"I can see no better way to fight that good fight than by encouraging ISIS to develop environmentally sustainable practices when conducting their terrorist acts."

Is it really that hard to imagine?

Constitution, Declaration of Independence...

...whatever...In other news... yet another reason to vote Trump...

Rev. Al Sharpton told attendees at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event Thursday he would flee the country if Donald Trump won the election, in order to avoid being deported by Trump.

Bonus.

More debt, more line-jumping refugees...

...and hey... let's throw a bone to convicted terrorists while we're at it...

The federal government is scrapping measures brought in by the Conservatives that allow Ottawa to revoke the citizenship of Canadians convicted of terrorism and other offences. If Liberal Immigration Minister John McCallum's new legislation passes, the citizenship of Zakaria Amara of the so-called Toronto 18 terrorist group could be restored.

"We did run on those things. We did win the election," he said. "And therefore, I would argue that we have a strong mandate to do those things we wish to do."

Don't blame me... I didn't vote for them.

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RELATED: What's Justin's other Mom up to?

TORONTO - Ontario's Liberal government will outline a plan to eliminate its deficit and stem the growth of its massive debt in today's provincial budget, the ninth in a row to be awash in red ink. Mike Moffatt of the Ivey Business School expects the net debt will crash through the psychological $300-billion mark in today's budget.

Unbelievable.

If you can't beat 'em...

...maybe you start looking for a Sirhan Sirhan...Can we call this "a trigger event?"

It's just serendipity...

..that it makes all the right people crazy...

More than three in five caucus-goers said they favor someone from outside the political establishment rather than a candidate with political experience as president. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Trump finished first with a whopping 46 percent of the vote.

Who doesn't want to see the Bitch of Benghazi crash and burn just one more time?

Your money... her pet projects

Once again, the Liberal Party is pulling out all the trendy politically correct stops...

Ontario will spend $100 million over the next three years on a long-term strategy to end violence against indigenous women.

The question here is, why do we need this "strategy" at all?

"The overview reveals a virtually identical homicide solving rate for Aboriginal women (88%) and non-Aboriginal women (89%). The study reveals that the rate of stranger perpetrated homicide against Aboriginal women is 8%, virtually the same as for non-Aboriginal women (7%).

Why does Kathleen Wynne not have a strategy for protecting women regardless of their ethnicity? Why wouldn't the government want to just help victims of violence... regardless of gender or ethnic origin?

Perhaps, instead, as government statistics suggest, society needs to be protected from aboriginal women...

Sapers pointed to statistics that show the total number of people incarcerated in federal institutions went down by 12 per cent between 1996 and 2004. But the number of native inmates increased 21 per cent in the same period.

The figures were even more dramatic for native women, whose numbers rose by a startling 74 per cent.

Could the homicide rate for aboriginal women have any relation to their skyrocketing prescence in the prison system?

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RELATED: How about protecting aboriginal children...

...from their parents?

"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."

Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators Ottawa: Health Canada.

And...

One in 10 aboriginal children now lands in foster care, compared to one in 200 for non-aboriginal children, the AFN said. There are currently three times as many children in foster care as there were in residential schools.

The numbers don't lie. Politicians do.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Amazing that Wynne, unable to find enough provincial rat holes to pour money into, invades what is largely a federal jurisdiction, aboriginal affairs."

I'm afraid our grandchildren will still be paying for Liberal folly 50 years from now.

You wouldn't understand...

...it's a Liberal thing...

Canada’s supply of stuff to apologize for must be running low. The CBC says Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will issue a formal apology for a law passed in 1912 that essentially banned the use of French in elementary schools. The kindergarten class of 1915 will at last have closure.

How about an apology for the billion dollars the Liberals spent on not building new electrical generation capacity?

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RELATED: You can't say they aren't flexible

Stéphane Dion has perfected his stand on the $15 billion Saudi arms deal and it’s a Liberal classic: He’s for it and he’s against it. The Liberals will go ahead with the sale while also disapproving of it.

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RELATED2:

On Monday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau indicated none of those three promises will be met. In just four months since the Oct. 19 election, Justin Trudeau has cut loose all the fiscal anchors he pledged to abide by even as he runs deficits.

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LAST WORD: Comment of the week

"Why, it's almost as if they just weren't ready."

“We decided that that decision can be put off... until we have the actual text of a bill,” Liberal House Leader Dominic LeBlanc said.

Way to govern, Dom.

Remember, this is Ontario...

If people want to steal your stuff... you have to stand there and watch them do it.

And let's not forget beautiful British Columbia...

"I’ve also met a lot of ex-homeless guys at AA meetings, including a few Main and Hastings refugees. They hadn’t been homeless because the Vancouver City Council was packed with miserly Tories or because there was a depression or a recession (in many case, there was neither). They were homeless because having a home—and a job and a wife and bills, living the “straight” life—had been leeching precious time, money, and energy away from their addictions, not to mention their criminal enterprises and overall compulsion to be assholes, just cuz."

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RELATED: Manitoba - The Game of Thrones province

Li said he heard the voice of God telling him to kill the young carnival worker or "die immediately." Li repeatedly stabbed McLean who unsuccessfully fought for his life. As passengers fled the bus, Li continued stabbing and mutilating the body before he was arrested.

Well, actually, Vince Li decapitated McLean, cut pieces off his body and ate them... but heck, if you can't say something nice... right?

If Vince Li/ Will Baker beheads someone else can we charge his doctors with complicity in a homicide?

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LAST WORD: PEI beats stiff competition...

"The province won after it printed up a 180,000 copies of a tourism guide with a front cover that featured a nice beach scene with a woman and man, who was sporting an erection."

Comment of the week...

"This story has lasted more than 4 hours. Should he not be seeing a doctor?"

Indeed.

Startling new evidence...

...that prolonged exposure to rap can cut your IQ in half...

"Hate it or love it, 50 Cent is going to have to explain all those Benjamins. In case anyone still doubted his financial woes, the rapper also posted a photo of the word 'BROKE' spelled out in 100 dollar bills."

And poor "Fiddy" is not the only suffering artiste...

One crowdfunding campaign has actually taken off, with 89 people raising a total of $588 by Wednesday morning. That gets West 0.001109433% of the way there.

“We must open our hearts and wallets for Kanye today,” wrote page creator Jeremy Piatt.

Must we? Hey, if you millennial asshats can put a snowboard instructor in charge of a whole country, I guess anything is possible.

"Instead of reflecting on the enormity of what lay ahead, he was sitting in on a hush-hush photo shoot and interview with the American glamour magazine Vogue..."

Time to go inventory the MREs and the ammo... later, alligator.

Instead of constantly making firearms...

...more & more super-duper, double illegal... let's hand out free chest tubes & trauma kits to everyone who wants them...

The Alberta government announced last week that it is addressing fentanyl’s “devastating impact” by making naloxone – a first-aid drug that reverses the symptoms of an opioid overdose – available free of charge to Albertans.

If it's good enough for the self-created, self-inflicted Junkie-Canadian "community"... it's good enough for me... OR, what say we bring back hanging for the "merchants of death" who are dealing this shit.

Just a thought.

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FROM THE GLOBE COMMENTS:Why are we staffing all these walk-in/get your methadone clinics with medical professionals... while any citizen who can't get a family doctor has to sit in the emergency room for 7 hours to get hurried/no follow-up treatment?

I'll see your benevolent Creator...

...and raise you a capricious, bloodthirsty Trickster...

My Melting Pot Overfloweth

A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that “makes the face ugly.”

Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.

The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title “Mufti of Gaza,” came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues. Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.

"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said. The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple.

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RELATED: In other Islamic goings-on

A court appeal launched by the former Conservative government seeking to rescind bail for Omar Khadr has been dropped by the Liberals as a part of the government's commitment to "review its litigation strategy."

Chalk up another win for Prime Minister Care Bear.

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LAST WORD: Math is hard

There were any number of “placeholders” in the Liberal platform – such as the cost of resettling Syrian refugees, pegged at $100 million during the election, now estimated at $1.2 billion.

Yup... he got us good.

The operative words here are...

..."size of a laptop"... which, as any professional smuggler will tell you, is "a gold plate gimmee"...

"We are afraid the radioactive element will fall into the hands of Daesh," says a senior security official with knowledge of the theft, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

ISIS, ISIS... aren't those the folks that Justin Trudeau has unilaterally decided... aren't worth fighting?

I wonder if they feel the same way about us.

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RELATED: If I were a suspicious person...

Canada’s Liberal government is facing heavy criticism from the Conservative opposition after International Development Minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, admitted that Canadian humanitarian assistance could help terrorists, including ISIS and Hamas.

Seriously?

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LAST WORD: Live and don't learn

When U.S. Airways ticket agent Michael Tuohey laid eyes on Mohamed Atta on the morning of 9/11, he got a “chill” and thought to himself, “If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.” But then, he says, he gave himself a politically correct “slap,” and handed Atta his ticket.

Atta proceeded to murder 3,000 Americans. But at least no undue scrutiny of Arabs was taking place at U.S. Airports!

We are doomed.

Straight out of the "Lefty" playbook

"Do as I say, not as I did..."

President Obama “regrets” filibustering the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, his top spokesman said Wednesday, though he maintains that the Republican opposition to his effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is unprecedented.

As a senator from Illinois, Obama and 23 other senators attempted to stage a filibuster to block a confirmation vote on Alito, one of former President George W. Bush’s picks to serve on the bench.

Remember, it's only a bad thing when a conservative does it.

And while we're on hypocrisy...

Pope Francis made an indirect but biting criticism at Donald Trump Thursday, suggesting those who build walls “aren’t Christian.”

Ironically, the pope’s home of Vatican City is surrounded by enormous medieval walls.

Hey, at least this Pope isn't a card-carrying Hitlerite.

That arrogant, controlling Stephen Harp...

...wait a minute...

Courtesy of the same idealogically retarded folk who "improved society" by murdering Russian Princesses.

"The NDP government is nine months old. It’s too young to be so brittle, and it’s getting too old to make such bombastic rookie mistakes. And on its first anniversary, The Rebel has looked more sympathetic than anyone could have imagined."

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UPDATE: Dipper Preem eats crow...

“We’ve heard a lot of feedback from Albertans and media over the course of the last two days and it’s clear we made a mistake,” the premier’s office said in a statement Wednesday.

Ezra 1, Notley Crue 0.

Government by... "Once upon a time..."

Never mind the billions of taxpayer dollars Prime Minister Care Bear is pissing away daily... it's LOOK HERE, LOOK HERE, we have a cultural genocide on our hands!!!

Canada's minister for the status of women, Patty Hajdu, suggests [via anecdotal evidence supplied by aboriginal activists] the number of missing and murdered indigenous women could be as high as 4,000, but (and I'm quoting verbatim here) "a dearth of hard data" means it's all but impossible to pinpoint an accurate figure.

Hmmm... a "dearth of hard data," Patty? For true?

You mean like that unsubstantiated argle-bargle that some "Social Justice Warrior™" just pulled out of her capacious, sainted, yet uberly-objective ass? You just might want to do a little more research...

A 2014 report by the RCMP concluded 1,017 aboriginal women had been slain between 1980 and 2012, and that another 164 were considered missing.

This report, of course, is utterly unacceptable. Apparently, the rookie minister is convinced the RCMP is is fiddling the books, her theory being that police departments will lowball murders because, well... racism.

Hajdu, who represents Thunder Bay–Superior North, said the 4,000 number is more believable because there is a history of police underreporting homicides, or failing to investigate suspicious deaths.

I dunno, Patty... if I'm a high ranking police bureaucrat, it's way more likely I'm gonna push these statistics as high as possible, to reinforce my case for a larger operating budget in the next fiscal year.

Regardless, the Natural Governing Party has decided instead, to go with the anecdotal "evidence" (a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one) supplied by, surprise, surprise... an aboriginal lobby group.

"Very often many families, because of negative interactions in the past, because of racism, have not in fact reported when a loved one goes missing," Dawn Lavell-Harvard, the president of Native Women's Association of Canada said in an interview with CBC News on Monday.

How does that even make sense? You don't report a crime because, what... the cops might solve it?

To further confuse the issue, perennial weeper and Librano spokes-dupe Carolyn Bennett then issued a statement that directly contradicted Ms. Lavell-Harvard...

Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett said many families of missing or murdered indigenous women want police to dust off cold cases, or actually launch investigations.

So, which is it ladies... we won't report crimes... or we are working frantically to get the cops get off their asses and investigating?

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RELATED: Missing aboriginal women, huh?

I wonder if we could find any other statistics that shed light on this troubling issue?

Sapers pointed to statistics that show the total number of people incarcerated in federal institutions went down by 12 per cent between 1996 and 2004. But the number of native inmates increased 21 per cent in the same period.

The figures were even more dramatic for native women, whose numbers rose by a startling 74 per cent.

Hmmm.

My Melting Pot overfloweth

Tell me again how all these Syrian refugees are gonna fit seamlessly into Canadian society...

A cab company in Newfoundland has been ordered to pay a visually impaired woman $5,000 in compensation after three of its drivers refused to offer service to her and her service dog.

That's so strange, I mean Canadians in general and Newfies specifically, well... they love their dogs, they're like members of the family. Why would anyone refuse... wait a minute... what do those infamous Islamophobes over at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind have to say?

When it comes to cabs, many companies point out that drivers who are Muslim do not want contact with dogs because Islamic tradition sees them as unclean. But critics argue that carrying dogs comes with the job description for taxi drivers.

Is this Muslim/Dog argle-bargle even a real thing?

Jamal Badawi, a Halifax Imam and religious studies professor emeritus at St. Mary’s University, said there is nothing in the Qur'an or Muslim teachings that says dogs are to be avoided.

Hmmm... that isn't stopping the Islamic "community" from using it to avoid security checks the rest of us have to go through...

POLICE sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at railway stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers – after complaints that it is against the suspects’ religion.

You wouldn't know any of this stuff if you read the Canadian Press or Globe & Mail... because they won't ever use the "M" word. They're happy to leave readers with the impression that Newfies are terminal dickheads.

In other multi-culti news...

Months after a Toronto woman filed a human rights complaint against Omar Mahrouk, a Muslim barber who would not give her a haircut, the issue has been quietly resolved. Ms. McGregor filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal last June after she was denied a haircut because it is against the barbers’ religion to touch a woman.

"Quietly resolved," huh? Not like when they stuck it up Guy Earle's infidel ass to the tune of $17,000.

And, finally... speaking of "overfloweth"...

Toilet routines differ, and Islamic culture has detailed toilet etiquette. Islamic countries traditionally use water to wash. The myreligionislam.com website lists 20 rules and practices "to be followed when answering the call of nature." One rule stipulates using fingers to clean oneself, and "if there are still traces," washing them with water. Cleaning the private parts "with stones and similar materials" is regarded as an "acceptable substitute for cleaning them with water."

Other rules forbid talking, singing, smoking or reading the paper while on the toilet. People are also advised to enter the bathroom left foot first, while exiting with the right.

Sunni ways, my friends... sunni ways.

All You Need is Love

Meet the "Social Justice Warriors™" who are building a kinder, gentler world for your children...Typically, the "professional" journalists over at the New York Times are characterising this behaviour as "fierce battle lines" being drawn.

Remember, it's only "hate speech" when a knuckle-draggin' Kathy Shaidle, Ann Coulter or Donald Trump does it.

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UPDATE: Wait a minute...

“You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician,” wrote William O. Ritchie, a former D.C. homicide commander.

“You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that no foul play was observed. You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a heart attack.

What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage?”

Questions that need to be answered.

Will Hussein Obama pull another rabbit, er...

...slippery, misdirecting analogy outta his raggedy race-splainin' sleeve... "If I had an over-excitable, epicurean nephew... he'd look like Mohamed Barry"...

On Thursday a machete-wielding man called Mohamed slashed four diners in an Israeli-owned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. As is traditional, police professed to be utterly baffled.

CBS news identifies the locale as "a Mediterranean restaurant" and local law enforcement are more than happy to, yet again, play another round of... "who's on first?"

"There was no rhyme or reason as to who he was going after," said Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner. "Right now there's nothing that leads us to believe that this is anything but a random attack."

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RELATED: Who's Zoomin' Who

According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, before Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore, he asked the FBI for its opinion of the mosque.

FBI investigators informed Obama of the mosque’s ties to terrorism. They urged him not to confer it with the legitimacy that comes with a presidential visit.

Obama ignored the FBI’s advice.

The next 11 months will be miserable for Israel.

And yet, no one even seems to notice what is happening.

No one breaks this sort of thing down better than the incomparable Mark Steyn...

"Free peoples are losing the habit of free speech," he says. "They're taught, not really just at university but in fact from kindergarten, that there is a correct view of certain subjects and that incorrect views are distressing. The last two generations raised in the Western world, they don't do that thing, the apocryphal Voltaire line, 'I disagree with what you say but I'll fight to the death for you to.'"

"They'll fight to the death for you not to be allowed to say it."

Remember, this is all about shaping the narrative. And there's no better way to do that than to stifle discussion and possible dissent before it happens.

And speaking of magic tricks...

Here’s another weird scenario: a recess appointment. The Senate is going to be on Easter recess from March 21 to April 1. What if Obama put somebody in during those 10 days? There’s precedent — in 1956, another election year, Dwight Eisenhower made a recess appointment out of William Brennan. He stayed on the court until 1990.

OMG.

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LAST WORD: "Hit me baby, one more time..."Uh-huh.

You couldn't see this coming?

Remember, folks... this is the guy who has a crush on "China's basic dictatorship"...

The government’s decision to force its caucus to toe the party line is the same stand Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took in 2014, when he required all of his MPs to support a woman’s right to choose.

Democracy? What's that?

Who steps up...

... to replace Deputy Chief Peter Sloly? • Was Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders hearing hoofbeats over his shoulder? •

Don't worry, "Social Justice Warriors™"... I'm sure there's an appropriately visibly ethnic successor waiting in the wings at Toronto Police HQ to replace the (Jamaican born immigrant) Deputy Chief who ran afoul of his (English born immigrant son of Jamaican parents) Chief.

I am curious as to what sort of "golden handshake" the Deputy received as an inducement to dutifully fall on his own sword.

There is, I admit, a "disturbance in the force" but I'm sure the Jedi Diversity Elders, er... Toronto Police Commission and Chief Saunders has everything well in hand...

Following Sloly's resignation, Chief Saunders expressed his gratitude to the longtime officer for his years of service, making no mention of the recent controversy.

"He has had an impressive career dedicated to diversity in policing and community outreach," Saunders said.

"He leaves a legacy of progressive and forward-thinking projects, including the TPS’s role in social media and the Police and Community Engagement Review."

Shorter Chief Saunders... "So that's why I blew Deputy Slowly's career outta the water."

Thank goodness the Toronto Police Service did not have a male caucasian Police Chief at this particular juncture... otherwise the departure of the (arguably more qualified & articulate than his boss) Peter Slowly would have caused rioting in the streets.

Hells Bells... who needs Judges?

Shorter Michele Mandel at Toronto Sun... If you wanna choke or sexually assault a bunch of women and dance away without being punished... stay away from the really smart, worldly ones who don't take an iota of unnecessary shit from incipient sociopaths.

"Ghomeshi left the courthouse with his head held high. For the first time since his trial began Feb. 1, Sun photographer Craig Robertson said the accused man looked directly into his lens."

Just imagine for a moment that Jian Ghomeshi had tried to choke his lawyer, Marie Henein. Seems to me there would have been blood, hair and teeth all over the place... and trust me, it most assuredly would not have been hers.

Would he have been guilty then, Michele? Or would you have wanted assault charges filed against Ms. Henein?

The sentence that says it all...

"These women’s allegations of sexual assault — as true as they may be — "

Apparently, though... Ghomeshi knows how to pick 'em.

Our Father...

...Who art in Redmond...

"The Windows operating system is full of hidden features and tricks. Using these hidden features can save you a lot of time and increase your productivity."

Ghomeshi - Final arguments

Catch the livestream right here.

UPDATE: Did Marie Henein just screw up?If the defense actually admits Ghomeshi "choked" these three women... isn't "consent" now the only issue on the table?

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LAST WORD: Trial is overAnother six weeks, Judge will return with verdict.

Don't look at me...

...I didn't vote for them...

"What I can guarantee to you, absolutely, is that we will not keep Canadians in the dark on what the costs are."

"What I cannot say today is precisely the moment at which we will be able to release those costs."

Bend over and grab your ankles Canada... you did this to yourself.

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RELATED: It's not all that different...

...at the provincial level.

"The Kathleen Wynne government spent almost $600,000 advertising its proposed pension plan during last fall’s federal election campaign."

Your money... their malfeasance.

Barack's BFF implicated in attempted coverup...

...of Laquan McDonald shooting...

CHICAGO — City of Chicago lawyers, after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, demanded the Laquan McDonald family bury the video showing the killing of their son by a police officer.

Emanuel’s lawyers were offering $5 million in hush money to keep this hidden just weeks before the runoff election. And the biggest part of the deal—that McDonald family attorneys agreed to keep the video to themselves until criminal proceedings were concluded—just so happened to be inked the day after Emanuel was re-elected.

Will Barack Obama have anything to say about Rahm and the allegations? I'm hearing crickets.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: The wheel is gaffed

The Dem party system has "superdelegates"....google it. Sanders and Clinton will get the same number of delegates...Hillary maybe MORE if you can believe it...it's the way the corruption flows with the US. DemocRATS

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RELATED: Meanwhile, closer to home...

...the Toronto body count continues to climb...

One man is charged and a second suspect is on the loose after a deadly double stabbing outside a North York bar early Tuesday. Toronto Police say the violence unfolded outside Gucci’s Bar and Grill at 1693 Jane St., just north of Lawrence Ave. W., around 2 a.m.

And over in Toronto "Welfare Hell"...

Toronto Police have identified the men involved in a weekend murder at a troubled Toronto Community Housing building.

TCHC spokesman Lisa Murray confirmed both men were residents of Wakunda Place. She added many at the building have been plagued by issues such as drug addiction, alcoholism and mental illness.

Wakunda, Wakunda... that sounds so familiar.

Meet "The Fixer"

“We represent people who have committed heinous acts — acts of violence, acts of depravity, acts of cruelty,” she quipped. “Or as Jian Ghomeshi likes to call it, foreplay.”

Ms Marie Henein, Jian Ghomeshi's own defense lawyer, speaking at the Ontario Criminal Lawyers’ Association Gala.

So, who exactly is this human buzzsaw?

At 50, she looks a decade younger, a vision in black chic perched on $1,500 leopard-patterned Louis Vuitton pumps. They turn out to be just one pair from a collection so notorious that Ontario’s former chief justice Warren Winkler once ribbed her, “So are you going to buy a car or a new pair of shoes?”

As one might expect, she's no shrinking violet...

“The whole point,” says Henein’s former associate Margaret Bojanowska, “is to annihilate the witness, really.”

And she doesn't trouble herself over what anyone else might think...

“I am not conflicted about being a strong feminist and what I do in court,” Henein bristles. “I just don’t feel a need to justify what I do or explain myself.”

Here's a thought. Officer James Forcillo was convicted of attempted murder because he shot and killed an unstable, drug-fueled man brandishing a knife.

Former Liberal Attorney General Michael Bryant got off scot-free after killing an unarmed bicyclist with a car.

Maybe Forcillo just didn't have the right lawyer.

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UPDATE: Ghomeshi livestream - Wednesday February 10

Maybe she should consider...

...molesting an intern with a cigar...

"They better worked this shit out fast because who ever the Republicans pick is going to be 29 times tougher than Bernie."

I mean... it's not like it hurt Bill in the long run.

As for Hillary's so-called "socialist" opponent... apparently, he's flexible...

The socialist trumpets his antiwar record. But he doesn’t mind expensive war machines—if they’re based in his home state. Most notably, he’s supported a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter that’s considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history.

Principles, my arse.

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UPDATE: The results are in

Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls. And, though Mrs. Clinton lost nearly every income group, she did carry voters in families earning over $200,000 per year.

So, Hillary supporters are mostly wealthy, elderly white folk. Where are the "social justice warriors" when you really need 'em?

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UPDATE2: Dems now eating their young?

The Nation’s Joan Walsh, a frequent MSNBC contributor and high-profile Hillary supporter is suggesting that white working class Democrats have moved away from Hillary because she served in the cabinet of a black president. This is a bizarre strategy from Team Hillary, especially after the catastrophic results from New Hampshire Tuesday night, where Hillary lost the woman vote to 195 year-old socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

To their face, Hillary asks for their votes and pledges to make their lives better. Behind their back, Team Clinton is smearing working class Democrats as racist.

Yet again... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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LAST WORD: As warm as Hillary herself...

Cameras caught top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin apparently shoving away a woman who tried to hug her after Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate.

The mask slips yet again.

If everyone around you...

...is a complete and utter @sshole... maybe it is you...

Sunny ways, right?

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RELATED: Ghomeshi-quiddick

What I find intriguing is that a lot of women, Mrs Neo included, are much less sympathetic to "Jian's Pawns" than many men... mostly because they can't imagine, in their wildest fantasies, taking that kind of abuse from man, woman or beast.

"As I wrote here a year ago: Jian Ghomeshi was what passes for a superstar up here in the Great White North, and at 49, what passes for 'young' at the CBC."

I'm a little more sympathetic than Kathy, or my wife, but a good read nonetheless.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Slick, sly and dangerous

Scaramouche has an interesting link on Gian's modus operandi. Apparently he encouraged the women to send provocative emails, etc., (while, on the phone, being very reassuring) which he would save so he could discredit them.

Interesting doesn't quite cover it. The more I hear about this sort of sociopathic behaviour, the more I think Ghomeshi should be locked up.

Three other women told me similar stories, supported by evidence, of manipulation and entrapment. Ghomeshi would establish an electronic paper trail before the alleged violence took place and would make efforts to continue a correspondence afterwards. It followed a pattern.

Indeed, it did.

Sunni ways, my friends...

Dear Emperor Narcissus Pompadoris... perhaps, somewhere in between all your photo-ops, er... travels, you should try talking to a few Kurds.And, by the way... don't military bases all have nasty, racist firearms and body-baggin' ordnance?

Aside from possibly offending our newest shake & bake citizens, are Canada's military bases really Pierre-Lite's first choice to settle an Islamic Diaspora from the very countries currently gestating the glorious new worldwide Caliphate?

Just askin'.

Yet another Crown stutterstep

Ghomeshi livestream resumes at 11:00am...Ghomeshi lawyer Marie Henein refers to third witness "disclosure issue" as being like "Twilight Zone."

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UPDATE: Ask a hoary old Liberal pundit...Nope, no mistrial. Third witness now testifying.Lesson learned... Kinsella makes prediction, smart money goes the other way.

Here's today's bombshell. Apparently even after choking event, the witness not only went on another date with Ghomeshi, but had "sexual contact" (which I interpret to mean, in the parlance, she "slept") with him... but did not inform cops or Crown of this fact until last Friday after Marie Henein ripped into Lucy Decoutere.Now, I'm no lawyer like Lowly Warren, but if some guy I knew punched me in the face... and I had a beer with him the next day... does that invalidate the prior assault? I don't think so.

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CORRECTION: To quote BBT actor Jim Parsons
(aka Dr. Sheldon Cooper)...

...FWIW - "Romantic contact" was not "coitus."Witness is right, testifying is embarrassing.

Court adjourned until 2:15 so that Marie Henein can "adjust her cross examination."

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LAST WORD: If you read one thing Ghomeshi...

Anger percolated over the seeming disconnect between the allegations and Ghomeshi’s public persona as an enlightened, sensitive progressive who called Jack Layton his “mentor.”

It's all here... back to the late eighties.

My melting pot overfloweth

Oh my gawds... we have to take firearms away from farmers, hunters and target shooters right now... hey, wait a minute...

Come for a smoke... stay for the firefight...

The first shooting took place at around 1 a.m. near a shisha lounge in the area of Airport and Derry Roads in Mississauga. Paramedics found the victim, identified by police as 17-year-old Sharmarke Farah, with life-threatening injuries. He died on the way to hospital.

Const. Bally Saini said officers arrested one person for firearms-related offences, but that person is not a suspect in Farah’s death.

Hmmm... Cops arrest a guy with a gun at the crime scene, but it's not the shooter. Here's a location with more guns than a Tarantino flick, but CTV declines to share where exactly that is.

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UPDATE: Forget about the dead teenager...

...Citypulse News says this is all about "Police Brutality"...

Police remain on scene; however the patrons of the shisha lounge have since been released after being held for upwards of four or five hours. “They took us on the bus, they searched us. We were here all night and weren’t even allowed to use the washroom,” another man told CP24 at the scene.

Allegations of "Islamophobia" in three... two...

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UPDATE2: CP24 got rid of old headline...

Click on the link above and you go to this... complete with picture of the teenager in a sports uniform.

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RELATED: "Near a shisha lounge?"

So the CTV report decides to omit a precise location for the shooting. That's strange, even for a news outlet that refuses to publish physical descriptions of shooters.

I know, let's ask another "professional" journalist... how about Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyGlobalTV)?Apparently, though... we're just getting warmed up...And finally...Welcome to the GTA - the Gun Toting Area.

You know how many gun murders there were out in my rural neighbourhood last night?

That'd be zero.

I'm with Justin

Forget Alberta and that nasty Oil Industry... Prime Minister "Narcissus Pompador" attracts important new business that meshes with his deepest personal beliefs...

The largest permanent, haute couture Barbie exposition in the world is coming to Les Cours Mont-Royal next week. The Barbie museum will feature high-fashion, designer, and even celebrity Barbies.

The dolls will be featured wearing designs from Armani, Dior, Versace, Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta and many more notable names from the fashion industry.

In other Prime Ministerial news...

When asked what Canada's role should be in the fight against ISIS, only 27 per cent told the Angus Reid Institute that they were on the same page as Trudeau.

Man... all those knuckle-draggin' neo-conserv... wait a minute...

Slightly more past Liberal voters were in support of maintaining the current level of Canada's involvement than were in support of withdrawing Canada's fighter jets.

Honeymoon over?

I guess if your husband had taken...

...9 flights on "Lolita One"... you'd feel the need for a hobby too...

A coin flip is how possessions are decided in football games. And football games, despite the amount of money bet on them, are not serious.

Selecting the candidates for president of the United States is, we’re told, important.

And...

"If you’re still spending the Friday after the caucuses trying to convince people you won, you know it was a loss."

She's in a virtual tie with the guy who wants to shut down the banking system. Think about that.

Too many Chiefs...not enough...

...adult supervision...

Now, almost a year after the killing of Teresa Robinson, 11, in a remote northern Manitoba First Nation community and under pressure to solve the case, RCMP investigators are trying to gather DNA samples from about 2,000 local men and boys.

The DNA sweep comes as Ottawa is gathering feedback on the design and scope of a national inquiry into the 1,200 indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or went missing in the past 30 years.

Aboriginal women make up only four per cent of Canada’s female population, but accounted for 16 per cent of all women murdered in 1980-2012.

Yeah, Justin, you call that "missing aboriginal women" enquiry. I'm thinking it just might not give you the very specific answer you're looking for.

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UPDATE: That's a 50 million dollar enquiry, right Justin?

Parallel to the findings of the 2014 Overview in which most homicide victims had a previous relationship with the offender, the 2013 and 2014 RCMP data reveals that the offender was known to the victim in 100% of the solved homicides of Aboriginal women in RCMP jurisdictions, and in 93% of cases of solved homicides of non-Aboriginal women.

Violence within family relationships is a key factor in homicides of women, and has prompted the RCMP to focus intervention and prevention efforts on familial and spousal violence.

Release the Kracken!!!!

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RELATED: In other hunter-gatherer news...

A letter describing “a culture of bullying, misogyny, sexualization of Aboriginal women, inequality and lateral violence” at a First Nations health-care system in British Columbia led to an extraordinary federal government audit — and to troubling conclusions made public this week.

Need an example?

“A senior leader was ‘strongly advised’ to hire female candidates based on looks and body types”

Does the FNHC mission statement include a "Hooters clause" regarding "hiring hot chicks?" I wonder how our feminist PM feels about that.

And lest you think this operation is just another inconsequential affirmative action bone First Nations have been thrown...

"The annual payments from Ottawa and the B.C. government that will total more than $4.7 billion by 2023."

A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon you're talkin' real money. And, of course, without fear of audits, some of the valuta falls off the back of the truck...

Internal Health Canada documents report that the organization has directed amounts as large as $5-million to programs with “no clear rationale,” and for activities “to be determined” later. Meanwhile, more than $4-million received by the FNHA since 2007 could not be accounted for at all.

Remember... these are the folks that Prime Minister Care Bear just exempted from regular financial audits, because... "racism."

File this stuff under...

...party conversation mega ice-beakers...

Given that no one that night reported any macerated cars or demolished buildings and that the huge object had been launched nearly vertically, it likely came down in the desert somewhere in the wide vicinity of the test site in New Mexico.

It would have had some serious hang-time, though.

Justin's World

It's all just "Horton hears a..." what the f@ckin' f@ck...

They'd spent months living in the roofless remains of a bombed house eating rats and whatever else they could find. And it showed. They were youngish people but they war-ravaged: sunked-cheeked, slack-skinned, with rotting teeth and clothes that hung off their emaciated bodies. You didn't need to be told they were refugees from a civil war: They might as well have had a neon sign on their heads. Oh, and they were Muslim, too.

That was the horror of Bosnia.

And now we have a whole new breed of, strangely enough, military age males flooding into the EU...

Oddly enough, their co-religionist "refugees" don't look like that at all. The ones I saw in Denmark and Sweden were well-fed, well-dressed - and fit and muscular, as German women discovered at New Year.

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RELATED: Because, let's face it...

...who wants to live next door to dirty infidels...

"It's a slow process because in some cases, [refugee] families are turning down the housing that's being offered."

Apparently welfare beggars can be choosers...

She understands why some may lack sympathy for those [refugees] who turn down housing, but she said many newcomers "cling" to one another. "They feel empowered by being beside each other."

That bodes well for integrating into Canadian society, right?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Perhaps something can be found for them in the neighbourhood of Mecca?"

Presto... problem solved!

Wheels back on the bus...

Livestreaming the Jian Ghomeshi trial...

nb: livestream is still active as of February 8.

"One cop to another as Ghomeshi exits court: 'Journalists are assholes'"

Court adjourns for day with Ghomeshi lawyer Marie Henein implying that Lucy DeCoutere's old emails may be the equivalent of the first witnesse's "string bikini" pix...Strangely, Henein stops for the day, rather than end on a "bombshell" note. Don't understand why Henein is giving up the current news cycle.

Can only speculate that either Marie Henein has compromising evidence and she's letting the witness stew about it overnight... or this was a bluff and she expected DeCoutere to narc herself out.

The only other possibility that suggests itself, is that Henein feels these emails are so deleterious to prosecution case that Lucy D. would fold completely (hard to imagine, I admit) and refuse to return to court.

I guess I'm stumped. Tune in tomorrow.

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UPDATE: High Noon - 5 February 2016

Henein drops another nuclear bomb...No longer stumped.

Not saying Ghomeshi is a model citizen by any means, but Marie Henein just put another notch on her gun.

UPDATE2: Fool me twice, shame on me

Crown attorney Michael Callaghan called for an early adjournment at Jian Ghomeshi's sexual trial Friday saying that he had to disclose evidence to the defence related to the third complainant.

Callaghan said the woman would be the only other witness he would be calling when court resumes Monday.

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LAST WORD: Wanna see the difference...

...between livestream & dead tree media?

One of the emails, sent just hours after Ghomeshi allegedly choked and slapped her, shows DeCoutere using racy language to express her sexual desire for him and regret that she didn’t spend the night with him.

She has told Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial that she doesn’t remember sending it.

No wonder people are turning to the internet for their news and entertainment.

YOU SAY IT... WE'LL PRINT IT!!!

No tedious fact-checking required... and for what it's worth, "professional journalists", in Toronto anyway, apparently don't cross-contaminate their uber-padded j-school cocoons by looking at each others stories.

So what earthshaking events are transpiring in the T.dot this news cycle? There's a million stories in the naked city, right?Lemme see... lemme see...

Oh my gawds, here's a scorcher... according to the Toronto Sun, yet another "talented [music] producer and artist" was brutally and inexplicably cut down in his artistic prime.

Hmm... that's weird... I've never actually heard of Quinn Taylor... even on those those fawning CBC radio programmes that shove multiculturalism up your white-privileged patootie a nickel at a time. I wonder what will happen to Quinn's budding rap music empire... oh, wait... here's an update from the Toronto Star...

"He was transitioning from living with his mother to living with a girlfriend..."

Transitioning, huh? That sounds way more impressive than filling a garbage bag with clothes and grabbing a bus to Rexdale.

All that said, I've actually learned something here... apparently posting homebrew rap music videos to Youtube from your Mom's livingroom qualifies anyone and their homies to be the next "Suge Lite." Word, bro.

Back at the Sun, the father-in-law of David Eminess, the other man killed, says that David had "gone out for a drink" and “some Chinese food." He was going to "bring some home for us to eat.”

The timing of the murder, which happened way after the witching hour on a cold winters morning seems to suggest otherwise. Most of the pre-shoot reporting so far has the two dead men and a now wounded third party standing around socialising on Spadina Avenue... seemingly unconcerned about any sort of food run.

David Eminess, 26, and Quinn Taylor, 29, were out front of the New Ho King restaurant on Spadina Ave., south of College St., along with a third man when the gunfire erupted around 3:15 a.m.

It's actually way closer to breakfast than dinner time here. How long, exactly, are you gonna just sit around waiting for your hypothetical take out?

Well, if that spring roll story doesn't work for you, (according to the CBC) the family has another one...

Christian Promesse, Eminess's brother-in-law said Eminess had gone to the area to watch a game and get a drink. He said the police told him that there was a crowd of people and a fight broke out, and that Eminess got caught in the crossfire.

Well, wait a minute, Christian... that's not what CTV & insideToronto news is saying...

"Speaking to media on Tuesday, Feb. 2, Toronto police Staff Insp. Greg McLane said it appeared the two murdered men, 26-year-old David Eminess and 29-year-old Quinn Taylor were targeted by their attacker."

Additionally, Mr Eminess is described variously by different media outlets as a student and also as someone supporting his young family with odd jobs.

Yes, it's a tragedy when anyone is cut down before their time, but instead of tugging at people's heartstrings with references to fatherless toddlers, non-existent careers and 3am tipples... perhaps we could see a little journalism? How about a description of the shooter for starters? Oh right, this is Canada... that's definitely off-limits.

Just colour me sceptical... Chinatown at three in the morning is not the place where anybody's dreams come true. Unless you're a junkie or a ten dollar whore you'd be way better off at home with Netflix and a cold beer. Even the cops travel in pairs in that neighbourhood. No wonder the mainstream media is going the way of the dinosaurs.

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RELATED: Toronto the not-so-good

Toronto police say a 19-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he was shot in the eastern part of downtown Toronto on Tuesday afternoon. The man was walking somewhere in the area of Queen and Victoria streets after 3 p.m. when a vehicle drove past him at a high rate of speed and someone in the vehicle shot at him.

And there's this...

A male is dead following a violent assault in Etobicoke, a representative with Toronto Paramedic Services says. It happened in The West Mall and Rathburn Road area at around 7 p.m.

The victim is believed to be in his 20s, paramedics said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Deputy Police Chief Peter Sloly says he wants to trim the fat to the tune of a couple hundred less line officers. Lemme know how that works out.

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RELATED2: Another body dropped

On Tuesday, Behruzi was arrested alongside Mohamed Hamad Mohamed, 26, and Abad Abdi Shire, 21 — friends of Marwan.

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UPDATE: Murder victim ID'd

Saed Kaylie, 17, died of stab wounds outside an apartment building located near the West Mall and Rathburn Road.

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LAST WORD: J-School 101

“I misunderstood the question and therefore provided you with an incorrect answer”.

No, you just thought I was stupid.

Yup.

Anna Pacquin, Hugh Jackman...

...and just a tiny dash of wolf... what's the big deal?

Isn't "gun control" all about...

...asking violent thugs to obey... "pretty please with sugar on top"... the existing "law of the land?"It's funny, not because it's factual, but essentially because it's so true.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada." — Quote by Senator Sharon Carstairs 1996 January 26 – on stage at 11th Annual Community Legal Education Associations Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Exactly.

Meanwhile in other social engineering news...

Yeah, I saw this earlier. I am empty of outrage at this point, but get back to me later. I may have refueled.

Sigh.