The lunatic left strikes another blow...

...against free speech...

Comedian Danny Polishchuk worries about the doublethink of opposing free speech under the guise of combatting fascism — especially since he personally has since been targeted and called a neo-Nazi — an assertion he finds especially odious since he’s in fact Jewish.

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UNRELATED: From the comments...

Ezra proves that you can't spell "schadenfreude" without F and U!

I think I'd settle for having...

...a family physician...

Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins says the government is allocating more than $222-million over three years for harm-reduction services and treatment to combat the province's opioid crisis.

As we slouch toward our retirement years, Mrs Neo and I are once again without a family physician. It took six years to get a doctor when we moved here... during that time we were dependent on the local hospital emergency room. Now that doctor has left for greener pastures.

This latest bit of social engineering reminds me of the 70,000,000 taxpayer dollars Kathleen Wynne dropped into the toilet to assist the "socially infertile" to have children... notwithstanding the Liberal policy to provide abortion on demand and the 40,000+ children in the custody of Ontario Childrens Aid.

While there’s no debating...

...the horrific nature of his scalp bounty, or how it conflicts with current Canadian sensibilities, scalping for profit was once common practice throughout this country. And unlike slavery, it was embraced by ALL parties.

Many Indigenous peoples were “lifting the hairs” of their enemies for centuries before that. If scalping is Canada’s original sin, then everyone’s a sinner.

Amen, brother.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Immigration...

The open borders lot, those who value random unknown strangers more than their own families, are genuinely mental. 42m more people for the UK? What the actual red shiny fuck!? 20m over a decade and the UK would be a failed state.

And Winston Churchill wept.

Stand by for another episode of...

...Those Darned Canadians...

Meet Luis Enrique Karim-Altamarano, Mauricio Antonio Medina-Gatica and Iban Orozco-Lomeli.

Dear Toronto Star... make sure you...

...don't dig too deep...

Franc Gabriel Paisley, 29, was found in his home with obvious signs of trauma and was pronounced dead. Police are saying this is an isolated incident.

Note that an "isolated incident" is policespeak for a targeted murder of a person with a history of violence. In other words, nobody in law enforcement fell off their chair when they heard somebody lit ol' Franc up.

Turning to Google one finds...

Franc Gabriel Paisley, 23, of no fixed address, is charged with a dozen firearms-related offences including possessing a firearm contrary to a prohibition order and possessing a firearm obtained by the commission of an offence.

Police were in the area because of a recent spate of shootings in the area, including Friday’s shootout between two groups on San Romanoway.

Note the careful use of "San Romanoway"... the name of the highrise development on the northeast corner of Jane and Finch.

You just have to know, or more to the point, be willing to decipher the code. I anxiously await the Red Star's obligatory follow-up puff piece on how Franc was "turning his life around."

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RELATED: Continuing the tradition...

...of obscuring reality in the name of political correctness...

“At some point A FIREARM WAS PRODUCED and the deceased young man was shot,” said Det. Mike Carbone. Det. Carbone, however, would not comment on whether the boy’s death could have been accidental, saying only that police believe an “unlawful act” played a part in events.

Hmmm... if firearms cause crime... mine must be defective.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Let's carry this free needle thing just a bit further. Let's think outside the box.

What is really needed is a direct injection pump, like those insulin pumps that some diabetics use. A measured dose is delivered automatically so that the user never need to come down. Add a feeding tube and waste plumbing and stack the addicts in bunks in warehouses until they die. Costs could be controlled through automation and from direct contributions BY PEOPLE WHO CARE.

Grade & high schools could have field trips to these warehouses to show consequences of opioid use. Crime would drop. No more drug addicted children. No more spreading of diseases. Drug dealers would go out of business. What's not to like.

Okay, it's all sarcasm .... or is it?

Next logical step... pressure Home Depot to set up "Safe Huffing" sites next to the paint department to fight the scourge of solvent abuse.

Residential school abuse process...

...has tripled in costs to $3.1B...

The cost, originally estimated at $960 million, is so far more than triple that amount, with an added $700 million in administration fees alone – including payments to lawyers who have been allowed to charge both the government and the victims they represent.

A billion here... a billion there... pretty soon you're talkin' real money.

Don't blame me...

...I didn't vote for him...

The real chuckle though was when he said, earlier on, that the government’s method were “yielding positive results”. If laying cots out in the Montreal Olympic stadium is success, I sure hope we never see what failure looks like.

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RELATED: "Sunny ways"... cloudy days...

"Since the start of the year, more than 11,300 people have crossed into Canada by foot from the US. The pace has picked up in recent weeks, with as many as 250 people a day."

JUST STOP FOR A MINUTE... AND THINK

"You pose a threat to your own damn rights by chipping away at ours. Rights are equal amongst citizens of this country. When you start pretending you can limit ours, you’re really limiting your own as well. Some great compromising you’ve done."

It gets better...

"Concealed-carry permit holders are nearly the most law-abiding demographic of Americans, a new report by the Crime Prevention Research Center says. It is impossible to think of any other group in the U.S. that is anywhere near as law-abiding.”

To paraphrase comedian Chris Rock, "When I go to the ATM at midnight, I ain't lookin' over my shoulder for legal gun owners."

You know nothing, Jon Snow

So... what if... I'm a 16 year old trapped in the body of a senior citizen?

And... sweet baby jebus...

A first grader at a California charter school was sent to the principal’s office this week after she accidentally “misgendered” a classmate in what’s being called a “pronoun mishap.”

You people do know you're insane, right?

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RELATED: All those suspicions about the French...

President Emmanuel Macron’s office has confirmed a report that the French leader spent 26,000 euros ($38,000) on makeup and a makeup artist during his first three months in power.

What's the deal...

...with state-subsidised "grooming?"

••• FROM THE COMMENTS •••

"My nine year old granddaughter who lives with me said she was 'transgender' I asked her what she thought it meant and she said it's when some girls like to do things boys like to do. Thank you America!"

Those violent, gun-totin' "Canadians"

WINNIPEG — A man whose brother was beaten and killed earlier this month has been charged with trying to bring a semi-automatic handgun onboard a flight from Winnipeg to Toronto.

Mohammad Peyawary, a 35-year-old from Toronto, faces several charges including unlawful transport of an unsecured restricted firearm and carrying a concealed weapon.

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RELATED: "Canadians" for ISIS

A Toronto man is named on an Interpol list of individuals suspected to belong to an ISIS suicide brigade, according to a Canadian expert on radicalization and foreign fighters.

Tabirul Hasib first disappeared five years ago when he booked a flight to the Middle East along with three other Toronto men.

Erasing history is not "Social Justice"

"I’m categorically against destroying any piece of art, any statue.

We’re not the Taliban. We’re not Stalin. We don’t go around just destroying statues we disagree with.

Some of the people who are trying to destroy statues are trying to destroy America."

RELATED: Airbrushing the Politburo

Ryerson University has canceled a panel discussion called “The Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses.”

Apparently, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" has been struck off Ryerson's required reading list.

RELATED2: The lunacy continues to pile up...

"So some Asian guy just got turned into a human dildo for ESPN's wild orgy of virtue signalling."

LAST WORD: Sweet baby jebus...

How far can this nonsense go?

It's time to end the madness

Sorry might not cut it for the Missouri lawmaker who called for President Trump’s assassination. Missouri Senate leaders announced Tuesday that Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has been stripped of her committee assignments, just two days after she tried to calm the controversy with a public apology.

Meanwhile, the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, Mike Parson, on Tuesday called for the Senate to go into special session to expel Chappelle-Nadal from the body.

Let me count the ways...

...again...

“We do know that black Canadians have been disproportionately charged with and are imprisoned for possession of small amounts of cannabis,” Greg Fergus, a Quebec MP who chairs the Liberal black caucus, said Tuesday.

“I don’t think that’s because there is a greater propensity in the black community to consume marijuana,” he said.

“We have to look at the questions of systemic racism.”

The Liberal Party has a "black caucus?" Is there a "Chinese caucus" too? How about Muslims or Aboriginals, or, for that matter, left-handed lesbian albino pipefitters?

I'm just lovin' Justin's "post-national" state.

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RELATED: Confused about how "racial equality" works?

Just ask a Black Lives Matter leader...

1. White people, if you don’t have any descendants, will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably one that lives in generational poverty.

2. White people, if you’re inheriting property you intend to sell upon acceptance, give it to a black or brown family. You’re bound to make that money in some other white privileged way.

3. If you are a developer or realty owner of multi-family housing, build a sustainable complex in a black or brown blighted neighborhood and let black and brown people live in it for free.

I'm beginning to discern a theme here. Make sure you read all ten directives... suggestions... whatever they are.

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LAST WORD: What do you actually know about slavery?

"The slavery debate, however, which lasted from the 1820s through 1860, was between the anti-slavery Republican Party and the pro-slavery Democratic Party."

Yeah... the party of Barack Obama.

No doubt heads will roll...

...Toronto Sun writer forgets to use perennial codewords "northwest end of the city"...

A 41-year-old man is in custody after a fatal stabbing, (or, as it is commonly referred to outside journalism circles... "murder") in the Jane St. and Finch Ave. area Tuesday morning.

The age and identity of the victim have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.

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BONUS GEOGRAPHY ROUND: Jane, Finch... Jane Finch...

...that sounds so familiar...

Meanwhile, police are still trying to determine who killed Virgil Jack, 31, of Toronto, who was found dead in Derrydowns Park, near Jane St. and Finch Ave.

“She was stabbed multiple times; I’m not talking once, I’m not talking twice, I’m not even talking three or four times,” Const. David Hopkinson said.

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RELATED: Toronto... come for the shopping...

...stay for the assassinations...

The Toronto Police Service is requesting assistance identifying six people involved in an investigation into an Attempt Murder at Yorkdale Shopping Centre.

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LAST WORD: The war zone

Officers responded to the area of Gerrard Street and Logan Avenue at around 8 p.m. Monday night for reports of a shooting nearby.

After the firearm was seized, the male suspect allegedly smashed police cruisers before escaping the area on foot.

The suspect has been described as a black man wearing blue jeans and no shoes. Police say anyone who spots him should treat him as though he is armed.

Get out while you still can.

The rocky road to...

...Allen's Snackbar...

The last known member of the Barcelona terror cell has been shot dead after he was cornered by armed police. Police said Younes Abouyaaqoub shouted “Allahu Akbar” just before he was gunned down outside Subirats.

Abouyaaqoub, 22, had fled Las Ramblas on foot and is thought to have killed a 14th person to take his car and escape from the city.

Five other members of the cell – including Abouyaaqoub’s brother Houssaine - were shot dead by police in the coastal town of Cambrils early last Friday.

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RELATED: Where will they strike next?

With Finland in shock over deadly stabbings being treated as a terror attack, the main suspect has been identified.

Abderrahman Mechkah, aged 18, is being investigated for two cases of murder and eight attempted murders, all with terrorist intent.

Police say he is a Moroccan asylum seeker.

Remember, back in the day...

...when you were a kid, your friends & siblings were being cut down left and right..?

Yeah, me neither.

It's not the first time the Zero Gun Violence Movement has taken to the streets to call for stronger action on the problem. And many of the family members present on Saturday say they know the demonstration likely won't be their last.

Kudos to the patient CBC photographer who probably had to wait hours for this carefully framed photograph. The 4th estate has become the 5th column.

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RELATED: Dear CBC, have you actually examined...

...a list of Toronto's murder victims from 2017?Don't settle for just January... you can check out the year to date.

Yup, you can almost smell the journalism.

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UPDATE: And the list just got bigger...

Toronto police have identified a man who was found shot dead in downtown Toronto on Sunday morning.

He was been identified as Khadr Mohamed, 22, of Toronto.

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LAST WORD: Those dastardly Canadian traffickers...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Canadian man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for his role in a smuggling operation that sent more than $130 million worth of drugs between the United States and Canada.

Harinder Dhaliwal, of Brampton, Ontario, was sentenced on conspiracy charges Wednesday in federal court in Buffalo.

Problem solved... no more Nazis

Went to Kingston, Ontario yesterday to do some shopping... they have a Lee Valley Tools... and ran smack into an... wait for it... anti-nazi demonstration. They were taking up half the street and the imbeciles at the front with the banner kept pushing over into the other lane to totally stop traffic.

The usual mix of smelly old hippies and obvious welfare types. One East Indian woman and a half dozen Chinese (clearly university students), but otherwise hastily recruited po' white trailer trash.

Asked the female bicycle cop leading the raggedy ensemble whether they actually had a significant nazi problem in Kingston... she smiled, shrugged and looked away. Half a dozen cops who wouldn't be fighting crime just babysitting these fools for hours. Easy money on a hot summer day, I guess.

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RELATED: And forget about wearing brown shirts

Joshua Witt, 26, says he’d just pulled in to the parking lot of the Steak ’n Shake in Sheridan, Colo., and was opening his car door. “All I hear is, ‘Are you one of them neo-Nazis?’ as this dude is swinging a knife up over my car door at me. Apparently, my haircut is considered a neo-Nazi statement.”

Hmmm... are there any actual real world problems we could be thinking about?

The released report comes after France has experienced nine terror or attempted Islamist terror attacks since January 2017, including two this month.

When Glenn is right, he’s right...

...And MAN, is he ever RIGHT about this one.

Snowflake U

I had to explain the news to a young gal at work today. Selling emotional "news" to get people talking is a desperately-competitive big business. It's not about keeping you "informed."

She confessed that she had never thought about it that way, that the media makes the news so people will watch it instead of CSI re-runs. She is young and innocent, but capable of learning.

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RELATED: What's not to trust?

If I only had a brain

"The terrorist cell which killed 14 people in Catalonia on Thursday was planning to mount a bombing attack in Barcelona that was only abandoned when they accidentally blew up the house where they were stockpiling explosives."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"They gotta stop with that whole marryin' people they meet at family reunions thing."

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UPDATE: Another casualty of the R.O.P.

Ian Moore Wilson has been identified as the Canadian killed in the Barcelona van attack.

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RELATED: In other Religion of Peace news...

An 18-year-old Moroccan male asylum seeker was arrested Friday after having been shot in the leg by a police officer. He is being held on suspicion of murder and a possible terrorist intent.

The two deceased victims are female Finnish citizens aged 15 and 67. Among the eight injured victims are one British, two Swedish, and one Italian citizen./

Muhammed take the wheel...

A terror attack in Barcelona has left 13 people dead and 32 injured, 10 seriously, after a van ploughed into pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas street.

The van used in the attack was rented by Driss Oukabir.

Live and don't learn Euroweenies.

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RELATED: Ask a Canadian media outlet...

...this one is on General Motors, er... Fiat & friends...

BARCELONA, Spain -- A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district Thursday, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents.

It's the scrapyard crusher for you, villain!

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UPDATE: Kill 'em all...

...let Allah sort 'em out...

Hours after the incident, three police officers were run over on the Barcelona Avinguda Diagonal, another major thoroughfare in the city roughly a mile away, as a car attempted to overrun a checkpoint.

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UPDATE2: Payback is a bitch

Five alleged terrorists were killed in a shootout with police in Spain's Catalonia region early Friday following deadly attacks there that killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100 others, according to Spanish authorities.

Get out your decoder rings...

Meanwhile... out in the west end.

The capricious and unknowable...

..."Will of Buddha, er... Shiva, wait... Odin, no... uh, Jesus... oh, yeah... that guy, AGAIN..."

Communication Minister Remi Dandjinou told journalists that at least 17 people were dead and eight others wounded, according to a provisional toll. The victims came from several different nationalities, he said.

Security forces arrived at the scene with armoured vehicles after reports of shots fired near Aziz Istanbul, an upscale restaurant in Ouagadougou.

The attack brought back painful memories of the January 2016 attack at another café that left 30 people dead.

Okay... there's another country off the vacation list.

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UPDATE: If Allah wants you......

Two Canadians were among 18 people killed in a suspected extremist attack on a popular restaurant in Burkina Faso.

In 2011, Tammy Jane Mackay Chen co-founded a Canadian charity, Bright Futures of Burkina Faso, that worked toward supporting education for at-risk students in the country. Her doctorate thesis at the University of Cambridge, which she was set to complete her studies in December, was looking at the intergenerational effects of poverty on women in Burkina Faso.

Bilel Diffalah had been a veterinarian in his native Algeria. He had been in Canada for five years, had obtained a certificate in food science systems from the University of Guelph and had worked in the agri-food industry in Canada.

What will it take for PM Selfie to use the words "Islamic Terrorism?"

Erasing history...

...is never the answer...

For the next week or two • assuming we're not at war with North Korea • we will hear non-stop geschreiing from our media about what a racist nation we are, how we have to come together, rend our shirts, investigate this and that and endlessly discuss how bad we are until we're finally forgiven at some undetermined point in an ever vanishing future that seems never to arrive.

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RELATED: I feel obliged to point out...

..Ted Kennedy's car has still killed more people than my guns...

"One person was killed and 19 injured in a car attack in Charlottesville. Guns were not used. But Everytown is using the violence to push gun control."

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LAST WORD: Their political masters...

"When push came to shove • literally • on Saturday, police and National Guardsmen were to be found only on the periphery of the brawling. Indeed, the Virginia ACLU reported that police were refusing to intervene unless specifically ordered to do so."

Darwin was right

An Iowa man was arrested after police allegedly found him carrying meth as he tried to deposit a million-dollar bill into his bank account.

Dennis Strickland, 33, attempted to deposit the bill, which he said was worth $1 million, into his bank account in Sioux City on Thursday.

In other "room temperature IQ" news...

ATHENS, Ala. — Authorities say an Alabama man whacked his twin brother with an aluminum baseball bat because he didn’t want to share tacos. Dukes later told a deputy that his twin is “always disrespecting me.”

Names will not be published...

...to protect the narrative AND the guilty...

A man has been rushed to a trauma centre with serious injuries after he was shot during a street robbery in the city's downtown core. Police say three suspects, armed with handguns, fled the area in a white Chevy Cruz and headed westbound on King Street.

All three suspects were arrested and three handguns were seized.

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UPDATE: CTV glosses over "cultural relativity angle"...

On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, at approximately 3:18 a.m., a man was in the King Street West and Brant Street area and was approached by a group of men he did not know. One of the men from the group pointed a firearm at the man and made a demand for a chain the man was wearing.

A struggle ensued between the man and the group, at which point the man was shot in the leg, and the group of men fled.

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LAST WORD: Don't hip-hop, er...

...jump to conclusions...

Toronto police Staff Sgt. Al Love said police are looking for an armed suspect who is described as male, five foot eight, wearing all black clothing. The suspect reportedly fled the scene in a grey vehicle.

“Right now we are also waiting to talk to the victim to see if we can get a more accurate description of the outstanding suspect.”

See, just because Flemingdon Park is a notorious welfare hell hub of gang violence, you can't assume... wait a minute...

The suspect, 22 year old Di’on Jahil Wong is described as black, 5’8” and 146 pounds with short curly black hair.

Oh well.

Canada ties for eighth overall...

...while PM Selfie's refugee flavours of the week are Syria in 24th and Haiti in 39th place...

"These numbers came from a work carried out from 2002 to 2006 by Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science, who conducted IQ studies in more than 80 countries."

It isn't Donald Trump they should...

...be scared of...

"While our State Department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on Earth. The DPRK regime's actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates."

It sounds worse in writing...

...than it did in my head...

EDIT 2: To clarify a couple big points. The drugs and sex didn't fix me. They were like CPR for a man with a stopped heart. Dangerous, risky, and unlikely to work, but if you can keep the guy alive long enough to get the defibrillator to him, even if it means breaking some ribs, it's worth the risk.

I was going to die that night. I don't suggest if you're feeling depressed that you get a mountain of cocaine and a gaggle of chicas. But if you're holding the fucking gun to your head as you read this, yes, please do. Get some coke, get some women, get whatever you need! Don't. Do. It. Please?

If only there was a law

Activist Erricka Bridgeford promoted the campaign as a "Baltimore ceasefire" and "Nobody kill anybody" weekend that began on Friday and ends Sunday night, garnering the support of thousands on social media since May.

The city made it through Friday with no shootings reported, drawing hope from participants the campaign might see some success. But by Saturday, two men were shot and killed in separate incidents just hours apart.

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RELATED: It's just a jump to the left...

The group Solidarity Across Borders said Montreal police routinely arrest undocumented migrants and hand them over to the Canada Border Services Agency. It wants that practice stopped.

In a statement, the group also called on Montreal to bar border agents from all city premises.

You just fire all the cops... think of the money you'd save.

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LAST WORD: Muhammed take the wheel...

Le Parisien newspaper named the driver in the suspected terror incident as Hamou B., a 37-year-old from Sartrouville in the north western suburbs of Paris.

A rose by any other name...

...still isn't a vagina...

When Jeffrey Tambor puts on a dress and a wig, I don’t go, “Who cares?” I laugh and say, “That guy looks ridiculous.”

I do this because I have eyeballs and they’re still connected to my brain.

Killing Ontario...

...one Liberal budget at a a time...

The Liberals accumulated debt for this year is projected at $311.9 billion, almost 125% higher than the $138.8 billion debt the Liberals inherited from the Progressive Conservatives when they came to power in 2003.

Interest still has to be paid on that $311.9 billion by taxpayers, at a rate of almost $1 billion a month, or $11.6 billion annually.

If interest on debt — which doesn’t reduce the principal — was a government department, it would be the fourth largest after health, education and community services.

Those darned hosers...

...Toronto's beer-swillin', toque-wearin', Maple Leaf lovin' goofballs strike again...

Two Toronto men face two dozen charges in a shooting investigation that left a car riddled with bullet holes in the city’s Alexandra Park area last week. Kevin Pacheco, 18, faces 15 firearms-related charges, including discharging a firearm with intent to wound, reckless discharge of firearm and carrying a concealed weapon. A second suspect, Dravid Collis, 18, was also arrested and faces nine firearms-related charges.

Photos have not been released.

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RELATED: Welcome to the GTA...

Marley Dorphelus, 21, is facing a charge of attempted murder in connection with the shooting, police said.

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LAST WORD: Lipstick on a Pug...

"Driver and muscle for mob boss Frank Cotroni, one time inmate for 90 days after a bar fight, once ordered deported from Canada and eventual murder victim of a hired hitman in 2001."

Lemme see, the only real job this hang-around thug ever had in his life was beating the piss out of people... but he was a swell dad.

I'm looking forward to more of the Sun's ongoing series of "redemptive" articles. In fact, I say "go big, or go home."

How about... "Hitler... he loved his dog?"

No biggie, say Justin's Liberal minions

In an interview with CBC Radio's The House, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the flow of migrants crossing illegally into Canada has not reached a crisis level that would demand significant policy change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau echoed Hussen's reassurances during a scrum with reporters at an event near Ottawa on Friday

In the month of January, the RCMP intercepted 245 asylum claimants illegally crossing into Canada from the United States near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que.

This week, the number had grown to hundreds of migrants a day, a flow that is anticipated to increase. The flow of asylum seekers crossing into Quebec has been largely driven by the approximately 50,000 Haitian migrants living in the United States who believe they could be deported by January.

Man, millions of people choose to vacation in the Caribbean... why would anyone want to... sweet baby jebus...

"Haiti has the highest prevalence of HIV infection in Latin America and the Caribbean. It faces the worst AIDS epidemic outside Africa and bears the greatest burden of HIV in the Western Hemisphere. The epidemic began in the late 1970s and has spread widely throughout the country."

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RELATED: It gets better...

"Billions of dollars in international aid to Haiti has been lost due to corruption, and this corruption epidemic has hindered many of the good-faith efforts to provide assistance in the wake of disasters."

Sounds like living in some dank welfare shithole in a bad part of Montreal is way better than trying to make any sort of a life in Haiti.

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LAST WORD: What's actually going on?

That terrible, awful Donald Tru...

...wait a minute...

Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit’s primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.

Meanwhile, down in Lotusland...

In 2014 the voters of California went to the polls and approved a proposition that would ease the overpopulation in jails and prisons by loosening law enforcement standards on crime. They were told this would have little effect on crime itself. That’s not what happened.

According to KTTV-TV, arrests are down 30 percent since the new law, but violent crime is up an incredible 40 percent in Los Angeles.

My guns have still killed...

...fewer people than Michael Bryant's car...

Toronto Police say Adrian Milligan, 23, is the city's 30th murder victim of the year. After the shooting, two men described as black, between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9, one wearing a blue hoodie and shorts and the other sporting a grey sweater and shorts were seen running northbound on Raglan Ave. with a handgun.

No word yet on which gun club these young rascals belonged to.

Homicide Squad rounding up local...

...farmers, hunters and Olympic target shooters...

A “very callous” and brazen shooting at a Moss Park bar killed a 32-year-old man and injured four others late Monday, one of two fatal shootings in the city overnight, Toronto Police say.

In the second shooting, at 12:45 a.m. on Bathurst St. north of St. Clair Ave., a man reported to be in his 20s stumbled into a Shell gas station after being shot. He later died in hospital.

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RELATED: There's a special place in hell...

...for child murderers...

Toronto police say a six-year-old boy was killed by his father Monday night in what is believed to be a murder suicide in East York. The two deceased have been identified as 58-year-old Zlatan Cico and Simon Cico, 6, of Toronto.

The struggle to modernise...

...a medieval theocracy...

'Historic day' as Jordanian parliament repeals rape law. Provision that allows rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims has been abolished by the (lower house only) parliament.

Such rape-marriage provisions continue to exist in Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine and Syria.

Don't pull out the party burkas just yet... it still has to get past the upper house of parliament.

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RELATED: A little closer to home...

Police in the southern Swedish province of Småland say at least four teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 were raped at the Emmaboda Festival over the weekend. Organisers announced the cancellation of the 2018 festival saying that despite their best efforts they were unable to stop the continued sex attacks.

According to reports, the number of sex attacks at Swedish music festivals has increased by as much as 1,000 per cent in 2016 and the trend has shown little sign of change.

With apologies to Elmer Fudd...

...those wascally, wascal "Canadians"...

"A virtual kidnapping scam targeting female Chinese students has hit Vancouver. According to the RCMP, the cyber extortion scheme tricks victims into believing their loved ones have been kidnapped."

"There have been six incidents reported in the Lower Mainland."

Well, that's pretty much everything I need to know about China.

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