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TORONTO -- The interim leader of Ontario's struggling Liberals said Saturday that voters made the “right call” in stripping them of their power - and official party status - in the last provincial election.

Diversity is our streng...

...sweet baby jebus...

“Does it not concern you that your son was murdered in a gang related incident and days later, your other son is in Wasaga beach with drugs and a loaded handgun?”

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UPDATE: And you pay him a salary...

BARRIE – Jerome Pantlitz-Solomon, 20, of Mississauga — an alleged member of the Crips street gang — receives $1,000 a month from the Children’s Aid Society in a so-called extended care program, a court has heard.

Put aside your preconceived...

...never mind.. scratch that...

28-year-old Corey Denton is facing a charge of attempted murder in connection with a shooting in Scarborough’s Agincourt neigbourhood earlier this month that sent one person to a trauma centre.

Eventually everything, no matter how horrible, becomes “old news” if the same stories keep repeating themselves and nothing really changes.

Meanwhile politicians propose banning handguns, as if that will stop the criminals. What it suggests to us is that too many of our civic leaders have essentially thrown in the towel on this crisis.

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ROUNDING OUT THE TRIFECTA:

"A 17-year-old boy who cannot be identified as per the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in Yonge-Dundas Square back in May."

But, wait... there's more.

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LAST WORD: Even out in the burbs

I'm not sure it was at Ford's Theater...

It might have been at Ford's Theater, but it might also have been on the Mall, or in the White House, or on Capitol Hill. I'm a little hazy on the day, too. It might have been April 4, 1865, but it also could have been a few days before or after, maybe even as early as 1864.

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MEET THE THIRD KAVANAUGH ACCUSER:

The suit alleges Swetnick "engaged in unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct" directed at two male employees during a business lunch, with Webtrends customers present.

Swetnick claimed two other employees had sexually harassed her, according to the suit.

Don't like prison? Well, just transfer out...

...if you simply say you're female... or in this particular case, aboriginal... doesn't that magically make it so?

Alvin Francis, chief of the Nekaneet First Nation says his band is 'shocked' that convicted child murderer Terri-Lynne McClintic has transferred to a minimum-security healing lodge on their land. "We have no say in who goes there."

McClintic was convicted eight years ago of the gruesome rape and murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford.

Francis said band members are forced to trust federal prison officials to make the right decision, which makes him feel uneasy. "Elders are concerned about who comes there," said Francis. "Because with no fences there she can walk off, right?"

So, what exactly are the "wages of sin"...

In December, Terri-Lynne McClintic was quietly moved to Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge in Saskatchewan where she has a bedroom, living room, kitchenette and access to teachings, ceremonies and workshops with elders.

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RELATED: Ask a Liberal Cabinet Minister...

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale referred to McClintic's role in Stafford's murder as "bad practices."

Sorry, Ralph... "bad practices" is biting your fingernails. Kidnap, rape and murder is way beyond that.

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LAST WORD: In other "Hug-a-Thug" news...

In a year where gangland shootings, murders and drug overdoses could set records, Toronto Police have decided to trim the very units that fight all three. "Two of the six Integrated Guns and Gangs Task Force teams will be eliminated and the drug squad will go from six to four teams.”

Gangsters feel emboldened to carry firearms because they know police can’t card them and there will be no fast moving TAVIS-style surprise visit.

This is happening just as Toronto Police are about to receive a $6-million boost from Premier Doug Ford’s new government to help combat this year’s out-of-control shootings and murders.

Julie Swetnick´s stunning claims...

...made, serendipitously, on the eve of a Senate committee hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh...

The accuser contends she attended at least ten house parties over a three-year period, that began when Kavanaugh was 15 or 16 years old. She contends “numerous boys” were involved in multiple acts of sexual assault, and literally lined up outside the room to wait their turn to commit sexual assault.

As far as we know, not a single victim or witness ever called the police.

As far as we know, not a single victim or witness ever told their parents, teachers, or any other responsible adult.

Hang on... Ms Swetnick apparently wasn't willing to take this to the police... but decades later gives it to the Democratic Party & porn star "Stormy" Daniels lawyer, Michael Avenatti?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Julie Swetnick says that she was not only at all of these parties, but she stayed even when she was aware of what was going on behind those closed doors with the lines outside.

Did Avenatti build her from a kit? She is inhuman.

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UPDATE: Let's talk about the restraining order...

Miami-Dade County court docket shows a petition for injunction against Swetnick was filed March 1, 2001, by her former boyfriend, Richard Vinneccy. Swetnick threatened him after they broke up and even after he got married to his current wife and had a child. “Right after I broke up with her, she was threatening my family, threatening my wife and threatening to do harm to my baby at that time.”

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LAST WORD: No such thing as "bad publicity."

Ontario disarms Ontario Prov. Police...

...over links to Russian Mafi... wait a minute...

"Authorities in southern Mexico disarmed and placed under investigation the entire police force in the once-glittering resort of Acapulco on Tuesday. Officials in Guerrero state issued arrest warrants for two top Acapulco police commanders, accusing them of homicide."

"The rest of the police officers were stripped of their guns, radios and bullet-proof vests."

It gets better... by which I mean worse...

MEXICO CITY - Feb 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's armored-car makers predict 2007 will be a record year, their business boosted by reports of severed heads and heavily armed drug gangs murdering police.

And...

MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors and soldiers raided a local police force in central Mexico and found a strange thing: 113 of the 185 officers weren't policemen at all.

And again...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The top prosecutor in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz confirmed Tuesday that more than 250 skulls have been found in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.

From the folks who brought you...

...Omar Khadr... multi-millionaire...

Later in the House of Commons, the Conservatives introduced a motion calling on the Liberal government to "revoke the Veterans Affairs Canada benefits that have been extended to convicted cop-killer Chris Garnier." The motion was defeated 151 to 127.

Oh, trust me... it gets better.

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ASK A CONSERVATIVE: Time to crack down...

Deputy Conservative leader Lisa Raitt said when in government the Conservatives stopped convicted rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo from having conjugal visits, and blocked child killer Clifford Olson from getting pension benefits.

Can't Wynne for losing

"The audit’s key finding, explaining why Ontario after 15 years of Liberal rule 'has the highest subnational debt of any jurisdiction in the world'."

Rexdale, Rexdale...

...that sounds so familiar...

Toronto Police are looking for a gunman after two people were shot and a third sustained “other injuries” in Rexdale Tuesday morning. A woman was also located with stab wounds.

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RELATED: Latest drive-by shootee id'd

Homicide #80 has been identified as Paul 'Boulos' Rizk, 27, of Toronto.

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH: Regent park do...

...what Regent Park do...

"Police have identified the teen shot and killed at a Regent Park apartment building on Tuesday afternoon as 15-year-old Mackai Bishop Jackson."

Homicide #81... usual victims... usual suspects.

Justice Shaun Shungi Nakatsuru...

...setting Ontario police officers and prosecutors straight since 1988...

The judge considered the societal backdrop to Morris carrying a gun and fleeing police. “I can understand why a man of your background, a young Black man, suffering from trauma, with such limited opportunities, with feelings of despair, being influenced by others, may think that 'I will have that gun.'”

Well, judge... I guess we just need more basketball cou... sweet baby jebus...

"A man believed to be in his 20s has been pronounced dead at the scene of a North York shooting at 8 p.m. Monday night. The fatal shooting took place outside of a community centre in the area of Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue, at around 8 p.m."

As of Monday, there had been 310 reported shootings so far in 2018, with 137 people injured and 40 killed.

I don't think Judge Nakatsuru's "catch & release" program is gonna blunt those numbers.

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RELATED: A little sweat lodge fixes everything

The enraged father of a murdered Woodstock girl and his supporters are planning a rally on Parliament Hill to protest the transfer of killer Terri-Lynne McClintic from prison to an aboriginal healing lodge. McClintic, convicted of first-degree murder in the 2009 kidnapping, rape and killing of eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, is living at Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge in Saskatchewan, relatives of the girl say.

Stephen Harper’s Conservative government had proposed the Life Means Life Act, which would have amended the Criminal Code to ensure the worst killers receive a mandatory life sentence without parole, rather than parole eligibility after 25 years.

So, Justin... you take my guns...

...and all our problems are solved...

"A Tottenham man has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting in Vaughan on Friday night. Behget Toma Eyup, 49, was shot and killed in the rear of a plaza at 3850 Steeles Ave. W."

Of course you have to leave the CBC website to find the identity of the shooter. So tell me, Sockboy, what are you gonna do about 18 year-old Shaquwan and friends?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

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RELATED: Let's fix drunk-driving forever...

...by banning cars...

"A Toronto town hall that saw repeated angry outbursts and interruptions from an unruly audience offered the Liberal government its first glimpse of the road ahead in its work on a possible ban on handguns."

Well, I can't imagine why...

"The 'presenters' agreed on many issues, including the need to approach gun crime not simply as a criminal matter."

Yeah... "He's bleeding out... get me a social worker... STAT!!!"

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LAST WORD: Remember Toronto's Eaton Centre shooter?

Husbands was also supervising children at a City of Toronto-run facility from November 2011 to May 2012 while on a $4,000 house arrest bail for the sexual assault.

Why wouldn't taking guns away from farmers, hunters and sport shooters solve Canada's inner city urban homicide problems?

Be careful what you wish for...

...Black Lives Matter Edition...

"Evergreen State College enrollment plummeted after fallout from the controversial “Day of Absence” in May 2017 when all white people were asked to leave the campus.

In May, to prepare for the drop in enrollment, Evergreen cut $6 million out of its budget – a little over 10 percent of the total – and laid off 20 faculty and staff, as well as not filling 19 vacant staff positions, the Seattle Times reported."

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RELATED: What has happened to America?

Every civil libertarian in the country, liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, led by the Civil Libertarian Union should be outraged by this demand. It is so un-American.

Affirmative Action...

...the logical conclusion...

"The Ontario Police College is scrapping their physical fitness testing for new recruits, according to a memo obtained by CTV News Toronto."

Diversity is our streng...

...sweet baby jebus...

"Rich foreigners seeking to gain Canadian residency through a controversial Quebec program are being advised to hide questionable assets, lie about their intention to settle in the province and even adopt a new identity, according to a hidden-camera investigation by Radio-Canada."

Slicing & Dicing

Twitter promoted a post advocating for female genital mutilation this week, after building a history of blacklisting ads from pro-lifers, before claiming it was an “error.”

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RELATED: Airbrushing the Politburo

Why is the media pretending Faith Goldy doesn't exist?
(h/t reader Malcolm)

What it boils down to is...

...who's zoomin' who...

If you kill someone with a gun in Toronto — you have a three in five chance of getting away with murder.

That's a startling statistic for Canada's so-called "civil society." What's the deal here?

Shauna Brown said her son’s case “could be solved at any time,” if certain people broke free from “the pull of the street mentality” and gave information to police.

"Certain people," Shauna? There's an expression that Doug Ford... or myself... wouldn't get away with using.

I'm guessing you don't mean the University of Toronto lacrosse team.

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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Ages 18, 16 & 15

"Three teens have been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a 49-year-old man outside a bar at Steeles Avenue and Weston Road."

Only one shooter is old enough to be named... wait for it...

Shaquwan Reid, 18, of Toronto has been charged with second-degree murder.

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LAST WORD: The usual suspects, usual victims

"Hamilton police are investigating after a 19-year-old man was reportedly shot to death in the city’s east end early this morning. He has since been identified as Natshon Defreitas of Toronto."

Justin Trudeau straps on those...

..."post national state" kneepads...

But, wait... here's more from the guy who made Omar Khadr a multi-millionaire...

Tensions ran high in the House of Commons on Thursday over Veterans Affairs Canada's decision to pay for the PTSD treatment of a Halifax man who murdered an off-duty police officer.

The Conservatives made Christopher Garnier's case a focus of question period, pressing the Trudeau government to halt payments.

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

There's a reason they call it...

...the lunatic left...

She really doesn’t want to testify because when she does she’s going to look like the loon that she is.

She’s not sure when it happened, where it happened, who else was present.

She never reported it to anybody.

And I think we now know why.

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RELATED: One for the good guys

Scarborough, Scarborough...

...that sounds so familiar...

"A man was shot and killed in Toronto’s east end on Tuesday night in the area of Sheppard Avenue East and Brimley Road just after 9:50 p.m. He has been identified by Toronto police as Toronto-resident Jago Anderson, 19. This is the city's 78th homicide of 2018."

You wanna take my guns, Justin? How about going after the actual homicidal thugs?

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

"A man believed to be in his 20s has been transported to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition following a shooting outside of a public library in the city’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood at around 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday."

And...

A 41-year-old man, Nader Fadaei was fatally attacked with a machete late Wednesday in North York. Fadaei is the city’s 79th homicide of the year.

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LAST WORD: Get me a social worker, STAT!!!

"A new unit is being set up bringing together staff from health, police, local government agencies, and youth clubs in an attempt to keep potential killers away from crime, with initial funding of £500,000."