TORONTO HOMICIDE #73/2024... AND MORE...

-- "Andrew Joseph, 36, has been charged with first-degree murder after his 82-year-old father was found dead at a home near Glencairn Avenue and Avenue Road in Toronto." --

And...

-- "Toronto Police have identified a man who was stabbed to death by a 13-year-old boy. The victim has been identified as Paulo Jose Pedro, 54, of Toronto." --

And...

-- "A man has been hospitalized following a stabbing at Warden and Lawrence avenues in Scarborough Wednesday evening. A male suspect has been taken into custody." --

THE NEW NORMAL

-- "Four people including a Police Officer were injured in a stabbing attack in Sydney early on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of knife assaults in Australia’s biggest city this year. A man who ran from the scene has been taken into custody." --

And...

French Police have arrested a 33-year-old Algerian suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern France city of La Grande-Motte on Saturday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said.

"ALLEGEDLY"

RIDE THE FRANKENSTEINIAN ROCKET... I DARE YOU!

-- "Toronto Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who ALLEGEDLY stabbed another man in the face with a broken bottle on board a TTC subway train." --

I think I missed the part where Toronto PD was passing out Glock 17s to all the folks they're deputizing.  

NO GUN... NO PROBLEM...

-- "Toronto Police are investigating after a man was reportedly robbed at knifepoint at Runnymede subway station Wednesday night." --

Riding the Rock-em Sock-em

Some days the bear eats you...

TORONTO • A man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was stabbed in the back of the head and abdomen at Spadina Station just before 11 p.m. on Thursday night.

RELATED: Teaching criminals to escape

Why stop there?

I say... "What's with the half measures?"

"A small group of topless women will be taking part in the Toronto Caribbean Carnival's parade this weekend in an effort to send a message about body positivity."

Justin Trudeau's "post national" state...

...it ain't all fairy dust & candied unicorn farts...

"Organizers of peaceful, lawful public events – such as Ribfest, the Walk with Israel, and the Roncesvalles Polish Festival – all pay their own fees. But hatemongers seemingly get a free pass from the city."

Don't want to spoil the suspense, but...

...I'm thinkin' it's not a really smart idea...

"The City of Toronto launched a public consultation this week on the safety of living in clothing donation bins [in January]."

"We always got her calls — 'I am going to jail,' or 'I am in rehab,' or something. She always let us know what was going on."

The CBC ices the fairies & unicorns death-cake...

"That night her generosity killed her."

Or, as it's known in the larger, law-abiding field of folk... "theft."

Riding public transit is like...

...sweet baby jebus...

OTTAWA -- Three people were killed and 23 injured when a double-decker city bus struck a transit shelter in Ottawa on Friday afternoon.

The driver of the bus was arrested at the scene. Police Chief Charles Bordeleau wouldn't say why she was detained.

The last time this happened, the driver didn't walk away...

There were 83 people on the OC Transpo bus when it crashed into passenger train No. 51 the morning of Sept. 18, 2013.

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UPDATE: Ottawa cops climb down from "arrest"

Ottawa police said they have released the driver of the OC Transpo double-decker bus "unconditionally" after arresting her and bringing her in for questioning following the crash Friday.

I'm so old... I remember when...

...sacrificing people to your gawds was something you only saw in Sunday afternoon Tarzan movies... and as usual, the whole thing is a mystery...

"Neil Basu, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner for counter-terrorism said, 'It appears to have been a deliberate act, but what the motive was we can’t answer at the moment.'"

The western media, CBC included, seems to feel this may be some sort of anti-bollard movement...New York Times doubles down... now it's a car crash.

Try as they might, to control the narrative, news keeps slipping out...

A man who drove a car into London pedestrians outside Britain's parliament this morning was a British citizen who originally came from another country, British security minister Ben Wallace has said.

You know... like this guy.

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RELATED: Same old, same old...

"Much of the media, led by the CBC and the Toronto Star, accepted this version of the tragedy, and asserted that the mass shooting had not been a terrorist attack, while blaming a breakdown in the mental-health-care system for Hussain's actions and calling for stricter gun-control regulations."

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LAST WORD: Sweden put to the torch