-- "A man in his 30s has been taken to the hospital in serious condition after being stabbed in Scarborough on Monday night, say Toronto paramedics. Investigators are searching for a Black male in his 30s with long dreadlocks. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a red shirt." --
-- "The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan." --Well... we all know which side Justin is on.
-- "Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were confirmed dead on Monday after their helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of the country’s northwest, Iranian state media reported. The Governor of the East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards were also aboard, " --It ain't all tears and wailing...
-- "The Iranian people celebrated the death of the man known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran’ with fireworks and dances. Many of those celebrating were the women whom he had tormented for so long." --
-- "A man has been rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot near Sheppard Avenue just east of Jane Street on Sunday night in North York. Investigators haven’t provided a description of a suspect or suspects. A white sedan was seen fleeing the area." --And...
-- "Peel Regional Police say a woman is dead and a suspect is outstanding after a stabbing at a Mississauga hotel on Monday morning. The woman, whom police say is in her 50s, is Peel Region’s 12th homicide victim this year." --We are all Torontonians now...
-- "No injuries were reported after an Oshawa residence was shot at early Monday morning, as officers canvass the scene for information." --
-- "Keep in mind that this occurred in a country with some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. France's tough gun laws didn't prevent these criminals from getting firearms that citizens in the gun-heavy US can't even own and executing a deadly, well-coordinated attack." --
-- "Durham Regional Police Service said it was called to the area of Lankester and Drake lanes in Ajax on Saturday afternoon in response to the sounds of gunshots. Officers arrived on scene and located numerous shell casings; however, no victims were located. The suspect is described as a Black man with a medium build, wearing black clothing and a black mask." --And...
-- "Naima Rezzek, 55, is dead and her former partner Brahim Naili, 71, is facing a first-degree murder charge in Montreal’s 13th homicide of the year." --
-- "The California State Assembly voted Thursday to issue an apology for the state’s role in slavery — though California entered the Union as a 'free state' in 1850." --Not that Trudeau's 'post-national state' is any less wacky.
-- "Among her many demands were to 'make elevators and hallways more spacious, to allow for easy movement of larger individuals.' --Perhaps humanity doesn't actually deserve to survive.
-- "Amonte Moody, 18, who allegedly shot 26 rounds into a Washington, DC, neighborhood while shooting at a car with four people in it has been released prior to trial by self-confessed 'woke' Judge Lloyd U. Nolan Jr." --
-- "A Chicago mom who called 911 during a terrifying break-in was left on her own for hours — with dispatchers telling her to call her local representative to demand more police funding. The dispatcher also asked me if I would consider defending myself … if I had a weapon or considered getting one." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
A man was shot after a dispute outside of a house near Danforth and Kennedy roads, in Scarborough Saturday morning, Tprpnto Police say.
-- "After seeing his wife shot, the male victim leaped into action and grabbed a garden knife. Lindsey Glenn — a 62-year-old former prisoner previously convicted of a dozen felonies — was 'cut to pieces' and 'very much deceased' when Highlands County Sheriff’s deputies arrived to the scene of the crime." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Peel Regional Police say one man is dead following a shooting Saturday morning on Ivor Crescent in Brampton. There was no immediate word on suspects." --And there's this.
-- "Toronto Police are searching for a man following a stabbing at Yonge and Dundas streets early Saturday morning in the downtown core." --
-- "Toronto Police have released a new photo of Javell Jackson, 30, in connection with a downtown Toronto shooting at near Church Street and Front Street in 2023 as he continues to evade capture." --
BREAKING... Canada announces $65 million for Palestinians
BUT WAIT...
-- "Israel Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza including Shani Louk, who became an international symbol of Hamas’ savagery after images showed her being paraded around half-naked in the back of a pickup truck during the Oct. 7 attacks. More than 360 Israeli revelers were murdered by militants at the Nova festival, which became a key target in the terror group’s unprovoked surprise attack on the Jewish home state." --And...
-- "The arsonist who set fire to a synagogue and stabbed a French police officer in Rouen was of Algerian origin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters on Friday." --And...
Ahmed Alid, 45, told detectives that he had killed Terence Carney, 70, 'because Israel was killing children.'
-- "Investigators say a person was assaulted and sexually assaulted by Eddie Warner, 51, of Toronto at a residence in the Brimley Road and Eglinton Avenue East area." --
-- "Ex-diversity program manager for Facebook and Nike, Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, who stole more than $5 million from the mega companies to fund her 'luxury lifestyle' was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars — and ordered to pay back the hefty sum." --
-- "A man has suffered life-threatening injuries after he was shot at Cosburn and Cedarvale avenues in East York, Toronto Police said. There is no suspect information." --But wait... there's more...
-- "Lal Kannampuzha Poulose, 31, wanted in connection with the first-degree murder of 29-year-old Dona Sajan in Oshawa last week may have fled to India, Durham Regional Police say." --And...
-- "Ly, 23, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Tien Ly." --And finally...
-- "Two suspects, one reportedly armed with a gun, are at large after a reported armed robbery at a jewellery store at Fairview Mall Thursday afternoon." --
-- "Please say he spit on her. Please say he spit on her. Please say he spit on her. Nooooooooo!" --News article here.
-- "Wednesday morning, students faculty, and staff arrived at UW to find what was described by UW's Vice President of the Office of External Affairs Randy Hodgins in an email to staff obtained by The Daily as a 'major escalation” of violent and antisemitic graffiti across 'virtually every building' on the school's campus." --It gets better... by which I mean worse.
-- "Peel Regional Police are appealing to members of the public for information in tracking down Nakeem Jamar Johnson, 33, wanted on multiple charges, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder for his involvement in a shooting on Feb. 3, 2022." --
-- "Quebec Superior Court judge Justice Marc St-Pierre has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove pro-Palestinian encampment activists from its front lawn in downtown Montreal." --
-- "Jayveer Singh, 23, of Brampton, sought in an auto theft investigation was found hiding in the back of a stolen vehicle and a loaded handgun fell from his waistband when officers apprehended him, a York Regional Police release reveals." --
The music that soothes mens souls...
-- "A 28-year-old man who was shot and killed in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough outside a music studio on the corner of Parc Avenue and Legendre Street.on Tuesday was a local rapper who is known to police." --
-- "Florida dentist Dr. Fadi Kablawi, who is also a Miami Imam, is facing urgent calls to have his license suspended after going viral with a vile sermon calling Israel’s military 'worse than the Nazis' — and begging Allah to 'annihilate the Jews.' Kablawi then bizarrely accuses Israel of stealing organs and skin off people, including in Haiti." --
-- "The head of a German rail union warns that the country’s train system is turning into a 'battleground' thanks to a wave of violence and intimidation being unleashed by male asylum seekers against female staff." --
-- "Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, falls from sundown on May 13 to sundown on May 14. In recognition of the event, Toronto city councillors gathered to raise the Israeli flag at City Hall on Tuesday morning as is tradition, but Mayor Olivia Chow, who called the event 'divisive,' opted not to participate." --Here's where the divisive comes in.
-- "An OnlyFans model obnoxiously posted a video to her 400,000 followers on Instagram on Sunday that showed her flashing her breasts to the Dublin side. --
-- "The same man who was arrested in a violent altercation on a Toronto streetcar in 2020 has been charged for assaulting patrons at Spadina station while on probation last week." --Oh, c'mon... you remember...
-- "The TTC is also implementing a comprehensive Anti-Racism Strategy — launched after the city’s ombudsman criticized a 2018 incident where a young Black man was forcibly detained on a streetcar platform." --
How about implementing a comprehensive Anti-Violent Criminal Strategy?
And...
-- "A man has suffered life-threatening injuries after he was shot at Cosburn and Cedarvale avenues in East York, Toronto Police said. There is no suspect information." --
-- "Robert Leonard Thomas, 59, a former Hells Angel convicted of beating Kelowna grandfather Dain Phillips to death with a hammer and baseball bat should be discharged from prison despite Correctional Service Canada staff being opposed to Thomas’s re-release." --
-- "A 17-year-old male teenager from from Brighton, Ont. is facing a second-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Eugene Maxwell Erlichman in Toronto earlier this month, police said." --
-- "More than half of the foreign-born immigrant population in the United States under President Joe Biden’s administration is unemployed, according to the Center for Immigration Studies." --
-- "The move has sparked widespread discourse and critique on social media. One user expressed frustration, remarking, 'This is ridiculous! If they’d spend more time worrying about the economy, the starving people, the water shortage, they wouldn’t have to worry about how men urinate.'" --
Meanwhile... back at the ranch.
Meanwhile... back in jolly old England...
-- "Walid Saadaoui, 36, and Amar Hussein, 50, accused of plotting to gun down Jews in an Islamic State-inspired attack in northwest England were held without bail Tuesday after appearing in a London court." --
-- "Local media reports named the fugitive inmate as 30-year-old Mohamed Amra who was suspected of ordering a murder in Marseille, and had ties to the city’s powerful 'Blacks' gang." --Let's face it... France is lost...
Just yesterday Nicolas Bessone, the Prosecutor for the Marseille region, admitted on the main French television news programme France 2 that drug gangs had become so powerful and wealthy they were managing to infiltrate and corrupt civil servants within the court system in the city of Marseille." --
-- "A 27-year-old man, Matthew Jeremy Ham has been arrested as part of an alleged human trafficking investigation in Toronto, police said." --THOSE DARNED UNSPECIFIED MALES...
-- "A 35-year-old man from Oshawa has been arrested after he allegedly assaulted his spouse and stabbed another family member during an altercation at a residence on Monday." --Yup... just your typical 'Oshawa man.'
-- "Toronto Police have charged 28-year-old David Hunte-Green in connection with a string of incidents including sexual assault; two counts of indecent acts; robbery; six counts of breach of probation; theft under $5,000; and two counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000." --But wait... there's more...
-- "Ali Arif, 38, is wanted on a charge of assault and a charge of assault – choking." --And...
-- "A man was taken to hospital with serious injuries early Tuesday morning after he was found at Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue in North York suffering from a stab wound." --
-- "The hypocrisy and irony are outstanding as this tactic is being used by a trust fund baby who likely never bought his own groceries, much less had to worry about buying a home or saving for retirement." --
-- "On Saturday, officers from Durham Regional Police Service arrested Toronto resident Conrod Warren Webley, 35, who is facing a number of charges, including one count each of assault, forcible confinement, trafficking in persons, and financially benefitting from sexual services." --
Seems it's not ol' Conrod's first rodeo.
Or even his second... time travel with me to 2008...
-- "Toronto teen Conrad Webley is facing several charges after police arrested him with a loaded Glock 27 handgun Saturday night in the Jane Street and Falstaff Ave. area." --Oshawa... not as dull & quiet as it used to be.
-- "'This sounds insane if accurate!' Musk wrote on X, citing a post highlighting the aforementioned threat of retroactive punishment. He went on to deem Bill C-63 'a terrible attack on the rights of Canadians to speak freely!' Peterson declared, 'We have no such rights, sir. They were bargained away in the 1980's, with the 'notwithstanding' clause in our constitution , which basically gives the government unlimited power to suspend what should be basic freedoms.'" --
-- "Events attended by members of a certain demographic require that a high level of respect for each other be maintained by participants. Disrespect, or 'diss', is often the catalyst for the eruption of violence. It's a fascinating cultural phenomenon, which will probably be studied by anthropologists 1,000 years from now." --
-- "‘Did you have access to their viral database?’, he was asked, to which he responded, ‘Well, I never asked. I never looked at it. I never needed to. I never wanted to. I never asked.’" --And it's turning into a tsunami of denial and excuses.
-- "Harold Santana Simon, 27, of Vaughan has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Makayla Zanae Roxburgh- Carpino at a residence in the city’s Oakwood Village neighbourhood over the weekend." --Torontology subReddit adds a little context...
-- "Idk if this is true or not but it's interesting how much a photo can change context. In the article she looks like a civilian but then in msav pic she's half naked with a gang members chain... rip nonetheless" --I'm so old, I remember Toronto the Good.
-- "Two people were critically injured in an overnight shooting at the Inxx Lounge near Finch Avenue and Keele Street in North York. There is no suspect information at this time." --UPDATE3: TORONTO HOMICIDE #30/2024
-- "On Monday, authorities said 50-year-old Joseph Anthony Emery of Toronto was arrested. He’s been charged with second-degree murder." --And there's this obscenity.
-- "At least 23 people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday, May 3, into Sunday morning, May 5, in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s heavily gun-controlled Chicago." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Danial Jamil, 34, and Christian Collins, 29, are in custody after police say $5 million worth of watches were stolen in an armed robbery last fall in downtown Toronto." --And...
-- "One person was taken to the hospital following a shooting near near Kennedy and Ellesmere roads in Scarborough late Sunday afternoon." --
-- "Jamie Richardson, 50, is dead following a violent assault in downtown Toronto on Sunday morning. The suspect slashed Richardson in the neck with what investigators say was a 'make-shift' edged weapon and fled the area westbound on Shuter street." --
BONUS ROUND: Hey, Toronto... tow truck wars are back with a vengeance.
And you might wanna skip movie night.
Diversity, strength... you know the drill...
-- "A manhunt is underway in Ohio for Deshawn Anthony Vaughn, 24, who killed a military veteran who was part of the Euclid Police Department for less than a year, during an ambush on Saturday night." --
-- "Transgender Karon Fisher, 20, seen on video running over 64-year-old Steven Anderson twice with a car before straddling, kissing and fatally stabbing him multiple times in broad daylight has been charged with murder." --
-- "In a tearful press conference following the Grand Finale of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, Ireland’s self-described 'queer witch' Bambie Thug declared that the 'queers are coming' after the victory of fellow 'non-binary' performer Nemo from Switzerland. 'The world has spoken. The queers are coming. Non-binaries for the fucking win!'" --
-- "Toronto Police’s homicide unit is investigating after a man has died after first being located with life-threatening injuries downtown on Sunday morning. Investigators later described the assault as a slashing." --Note that, in the update above, 'professional journalist Hayley McGoldrick has excised the actual physical description of the suspect from the TPS release.
Global News also edited out the physical description.Meanwhile...-- "'Because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down,' Dr. Gina S. Brown, dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, said to a roaring response of boos." --And then... theres this little nugget.
-- "Shaquan Cummings, 30, who has a lengthy (more than 20 convictions) rap sheet — knifed 11-year-old Maxi Park in the back of the head and cut her ear as she walked down the street holding her mom’s hand. Cummings has been convicted twice for violent felony crimes – including in 2019 for first-degree attempted assault." --But wait... there's more...
-- "Shocking video captured the moment serial offender Cyril Destin, 62, who a homeless shelter pulled out a massive knife and stabbed a passing tourist near Times Square in a horrifying unprovoked attack." --And...
-- "Miguel Urena, 30, is facing an attempted murder charge after he opened fire in a Harlem subway station Saturday evening." --
-- "A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in last year's killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside of a temple in British Columbia. The province's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a release Saturday that 22-year-old Amandeep Singh was already in the custody of Peel Regional Police in Ontario for unrelated firearms charges." --And...
-- "Mississauga man Ghazanfar Ali, 43, is facing eight charges, including three counts of attempted murder, following a domestic dispute and triple stabbing early Friday morning." --
-- "One way Canada plans to shrink the number of temporary residents is to offer them the opportunity to remain permanently, Liberal Immigration Minister Marc Miller, said Friday." --And...
-- "The Liberal government says its foreign aid is directed by its Feminist International Assistance Policy, stressing that it has a focus on 'gender equality.'" --
-- "A man who was accused of sexually and physically assaulting a woman had his charges dropped by Ontario Superior Court Judge Catherine Rhinelander in April, just weeks before he was set to stand trial in Toronto, due to a lack of judges in the region. At Toronto’s newest Ontario Court of Justice facility, multiple cases have been thrown out in recent months due to staffing issues." --And it's only gonna get worse...
-- "Funding for the justice sector is set to decrease from $6.1 billion to 5.9 billion as per the 2024 Ontario budget." --Case in point...
-- "Police in Durham Region are warning the public that a high-risk violent offender, 45-year-old Keith Theodore Constantin has been released back into the community." --Bring back the 'cooking chair'...
-- "Colorado teen Zachary Kwak has pleaded guilty for his role in a deadly rock-throwing spree with his pals that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell in Denver last year. He was initially charged with murder in the first-degree with extreme indifference but pleaded guilty to first-degree assault." --
-- "The City of San Francisco is providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics at taxpayer expense under a little-known 'Managed Alcohol Program.'" --Oh... it gets better...
-- "'Our goal at MAP is not to decrease the amount of alcohol that is consumed, or to taper someone towards abstinence It is to mitigate the interpersonal harms associated with unsafe alcohol use.'" --How exactly does 'more booze' translate into fewer 'interpersonal harms?'
-- "At its worst in September and October, barely a day went by without a shooting, bombing or hand grenade attack — sometimes several. In a televised addressed at the end of September, Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister of Sweden, offered his diagnosis for the unprecedented violence, directly blaming 'irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration.'" -- .
-- "A woman in her 20s has died following a shooting near Eglington Avenue and Northcliffe Boulevard in Toronto early Saturday morning. There is no suspect description and little information has been provided by police." --But wait... there's more...
-- "A man has been transported to hospital after police say he was stabbed in a random attack on Van Dusen Boulevard, west of Royal York Road, carried out by a group of teens in Toronto on Friday night." --Smell the professional journalism...
-- "Peel Regional Police say a man has died of 'apparent gunshot injuries' following a suspected shooting in Brampton." --
-- "Peel Regional Police say three people were injured, one critically, in an overnight stabbing in Mississauga. One man is in custody and there is no threat to public safety and no outstanding suspects." --And...
-- "A 15-year-old boy has been charged after stabbing another teenager at Pickering GO station on Thursday." --
-- "Police are present at a blockade of an oil lease road in northern Alberta but say they aren’t enforcing an injunction for members of a local First Nation to clear the site,' said RCMP Cpl. Mathew Howell." --We have to give them more prizes to counteract our racism.
-- "We're not eating the bugs. The journalists at CBS and every other outlet are free to chomp on some deep fried cicadas, but we'll stick with chicken and steak, thanks." --
-- "Lee Byer, 45, who killed 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran five days after being released from prison has been locked up indefinitely for the 'senseless' killing." --
-- "The irate customer who allegedly killed a Houston attorney after he became upset over his McDonald’s order was identified as 57-year-old Anthony Martin Landry, who has a lengthy criminal record. At the time of the shooting, Landry was on a $10,000 bond for felony aggravated assault after striking a family member with a cane" --
It's past time to start getting serious about criminals.
Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Officers from the STEP team conducted a traffic stop in Brampton resulting in police locating a loaded Taurus G2 9mm firearm. The driver, 21-year-old Dy’Quan YOUNG was arrested and charged with several firearms offences." --
-- "Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez, a 26-year-old illegal alien, is accused of causing severe injuries to a three-month-old baby and strangling the baby’s mother in Montgomery County, Texas. The baby has since died. Police are still unsure what Enriquez’s relationship is to the baby and the baby’s mother." --In other diversity news...
-- "Piran Ditta Khan, 75, will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced Friday for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England nearly two decades ago." --
-- "Durham Regional Police are looking for 28-year-old Sam Nyombi of Oshawa in connection with a collision and subsequent stabbing in Oshawa earlier this week." --
-- "London’s Metropolitan Police say they’ve arrested a 22-year-old handbag snatcher after he stabbed and killed a woman in her 60s, as she resisted the theft." --
-- "'We're in completely new territory here for a President of the United States because we’ve always had a rule, which is don’t negotiate with terrorists, but Joe Biden has gone beyond that — he's actually negotiating for the terrorists,' Burgum said. 'How about Joe Biden saying we’ll keep providing weapons until you release the hostages, Hamas? He should be negotiating alongside of Israel. He is on the opposite side of the table.'" --
-- "A Toronto man, Robert Robin Cropearedwolf, 45, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of former CBC producer Douglas Michael Finlay, 73, who was shoved to the ground while walking in Toronto’s east end last year. Finlay and Cropearedwolf were not known to one another." --And trust me... it's not his first rodeo.
-- "Toronto Police have charged a ride share driver Rajwinder Bhangu, 27, of Brampton, after a customer was allegedly sexually assaulted at Jane Street and Trethewey Drive on Wednesday afternoon." --And...
-- "Archit Grover, 36, of Brampton, is now in custody in connection with the gold heist at Toronto Pearson International Airport last year." --
