The Usual, well... you know...

A man is dead after he was shot in the city’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood on Friday afternoon, Toronto police say.

Junior Dani said a person pulled up in a white SUV, shot at a man four times, tossed the gun out of the car and sped off.

Homicide #38... Paolo Caputo, 64 of Richmond Hill.

UPDATE: CTV lets loose the "Dogs of Journalism"...

...and there goes my theory about driving your SUV while casually cleaning a loaded handgun...

“From what we know of the scene so far, it seems to be a targeted shooting, specifically for the gentleman who is now deceased.”

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RELATED: Not afraid of the cops or...

...the so-called justice system... for good reason...

A 19-year-old man charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed during the Beaches Jazz Festival has secured bail after a little more than two weeks behind bars.

I'm so old, I can remember...

...you could speak up in public and the government couldn't come after you...

"As has become standard in such cases, the charter contains no definition of what constitutes 'hate', making it a catchall for whatever the Canadian government deems politically inopportune.

If the government proves sympathetic to the recommendations of the committee, the prospects for free speech in Canada look increasingly bleak."

Let's face facts, Jane...

...there's a reason he's known as the "Kanadian Kardashian"...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has doubled down on his refusal to apologize for his actions in the SNC-Lavalin affair, prompting former Liberal cabinet minister Jane Philpott to question whether he truly grasps the “seriousness” of his ethics violation.

It's also possible he's all out of apology juice.

Or maybe not.

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RELATED: Cocksure Jussie due for a fall...

It is known that the RCMP seized Butts’s government issue laptop and cellphone when he first resigned. It is also known that Butts, Telford and the others ‘lawyered up’ and retained counsel for an anticipated criminal probe. And then … nothing.

Love, Respect & Homicide

"Cultural Relativity" in all of it's majestic jaw-dropping flight...

"She realized that’s where she’s going to get respect and honour and the warm fuzzies that other kids get from playing basketball or playing chess or something in high school. If you are a teenager in a gang in Chicago and you kill somebody, your status rockets.”

According to detectives, they believe it was a 13-year-old Gakirah Barnes who took Odee Perry off the board.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

Kemal Bethune, 35, of Toronto faces nine charges, including attempted murder with a firearm, two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, and possession of proceeds of crime under $5,000.

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RELATED: Brampton... where going out clubbing...

...doesn't necessarily mean music & dancing...

Two people dead after Brampton stabbing, police not looking for suspects.

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LAST WORD: Build a wall, top it with broken glass...

Citing statistics from the Secretariat of Security and Civil Protection, the BBC says there have been 8,464 reported rape cases this year. It is estimated that 94 percent of cases in the country go unreported.

Mexico has a high rate of violence against women, with nine being murdered every day.

"Intelligence led," huh...

...as opposed to that timeworn "throwing darts at random mugshots" strategy you've been using up 'til now?

- TORONTO - A recent influx of cash from all three levels of government will be used to fund an intelligence-led, 11-week policing project aimed at curbing gang activity in Toronto, the force’s chief said Wednesday.

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RELATED: You had one job, my friend...More SJW argle-bargle from the guy who says we can't arrest our way out of this thing.

Perhaps Toronto cops can take inspiration from their British brothers-in-blue...

"We want to promote being knife free by using custom chicken boxes to deliver the message and start conversations amongst all of our customers."

Policing minister Kit Malthouse hoped that the boxes will illustrate the "tragic consequences" of carrying a knife while challenging the "the idea that it makes you safer".

And cries of "racism" rang throughout the land...

"Amid the polarizing debate over the chicken boxes on Thursday, a man was stabbed outside the Home Office headquarters in London and the building was placed on lockdown as armed officers arrived."

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LAST WORD: Like they'll go after the trigger-pullers...

As a Toronto Cop friend of mine said this morning —
"13 people shot this weekend."

"But fortunately no one was carded”.

RULES ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

"The Prime Minister, directly and through his senior officials, used various means to exert influence over Ms. Wilson Raybould. The authority of the Prime Minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions as well as the authority of Ms. Wilson Raybould as the Crown's chief law officer.”

RELATED:  Just more scummy electioneering...

"Justin Trudeau was like the deadbeat dad that wanted praise for finally paying his child support bills."

POSTER BOY FOR GUN VIOLENCE ARRESTED SOUTH OF THE BORDER...

RELATED: The one that got away...

Peel Regional Police are looking for a male suspect who allegedly shot a woman, stole a police cruiser and stole a second vehicle in Mississauga on Tuesday afternoon.

And the ones that didn't...

Four suspects, identified as 19-year-old Merrick Beddaoui, 24-year-old Shaquille Johnson, 19-year-old Symphani Barclay, and 18-year-old Amin Guled, have been charged in connection with the case.

LAST WORD: Killed over spare change...

Thanks to a composite sketch, we now have an idea of what Glensbert “Sam” Oliver’s killer looks like.

The usual, well... you know.

Peak Freak

Campus Correspondent Ethan Cai asked George Washington students if they supported changing “offensive” crosswalk lights because the “walk” sign only portrays an image of a white man. How far will this movement of diversity and inclusion go?

Diversity is our streng...

...wait... say what?

While the Muslim population in the United States stands at about 1.1 percent of the 330 million residents living in the country, followers of Islam represent about nine percent of the state prison population in Washington, DC, and 34 other states, according to data obtained by the Muslim Advocates organization.

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

In Maryland, more than every one-in-four state prison inmates follow Islam, and in Washington, DC, almost one-in-four prison inmates follow Islam.

In other "reap as ye sow" news...

"A September 2015 report of the House Homeland Security Committee task force on combating terrorist and foreign-fighter travel revealed that Minnesota led all states in contributing foreign fighters to ISIS."

The capricious & unknowable "Will of..."

...well, you know...

TORONTO - Malieck Mohamed, 19, of Toronto has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, discharge with intent, unauthorized possession in a motor vehicle and unauthorized possession of a firearm.

And it doesn't end there...

Toronto police have an arrest in connection with a shooting that injured four people inside a North York nightclub. Kenniel Lloyd McLennon, 30, of Toronto was arrested and is facing several weapons-related charges.

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MEANWHILE JUST DOWN THE ROAD:

Police say the altercation escalated and the male suspect pulled out a firearm and fired multiple shots at a male and female. The suspect has been identified as 26 year old Toronto resident Thutop Phuntsok.

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I MAY BE SEEING A PATTERN HERE:

Shakiem Anderson, Maya Ahmed and Javell Jackson all have criminal records for gun offences. The trio also have something else in common — they were all released on bail in Toronto courthouses.

Despite being charged with 22 offences — including gun, dangerous driving and assault police charges — and facing an apparently “overwhelming case,” Anderson was freed on bail with his mentally-ill brother as his surety by Justice Joseph Bovard 17 days later.

Of course, not everybody agrees.

Social Justice Warrior Math

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RELATED: The usual, well... you know...

Of course CBC doesn't want to burden you with pesky details.

Two more members of...

...the Vagina/Cigar party...

A woman who has long claimed disgraced money man Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men named two prominent Democratic politicians - former Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico governor and Clinton cabinet official Bill Richardson - in documents unsealed Friday by federal prosecutors in New York.

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UPDATE: He's with Vince Foster now

If you were surprised to hear that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide... imagine how he felt.

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LAST WORD: A cough, cough, momentary lapse...

The prison in Lower Manhattan where 66-year-old Epstein was found dead is known around the world as MCC, short for Manhattan Correctional Center. The notorious lockup is regarded for having some of the tightest security measures in the world.

BIG BRASS BALLS

"I don't know how I did it. I used both hands to pull underneath the bear to get to that knife, and I grabbed the knife out and opened it and put it in my hand and stabbed the bear in his neck. It let go of me immediately."

"It was bleeding quite badly," he added. "I wasn't really sure if it was dying faster than I was."

The Usual, well... you know....

Taking guns away from lawful citizens won't slow these knuckleheads down even a tiny bit. Why is that so hard to understand?

One man is dead and another man is wounded after gunshots rang out in Toronto’s Parma Court neighbourhood on Friday afternoon. Police say they were called to Wakunda Place, east of O’Connor Drive, before 2:30 p.m. for numerous calls from residents about the sound of gunshots.

And of course, there's also this...

Police responded to a call for unknown trouble at a building on Wakunda Place, near Victoria Park Avenue and O’Connor Drive, around 9 p.m on Saturday. They found a man with serious injuries and no pulse. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The victim has been identified as Henryk Dabrowski, 60, of Toronto.

Wakunda, Wakunda... that sounds so familiar...

Welcome to Wakunda Place, a small rundown complex of 199 TCHC apartments and 46 maisonettes in the O’Connor and Victoria Park area.

Tenants say it’s overrun with crack dealers, plagued by loud noise, fighting, gun and other physical violence.

And not a farmer, hunter or skeet shooter in the bunch...

On Wednesday, Aug. 7, police arrested Mohammed Mahdi, a 29-year-old from Brampton, along with 27-year-old Yasin Bassey and 40-year-old Khumane Agil, both from Toronto. Each of the accused is facing three counts of attempted murder and other firearm-related charges.

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RELATED: Gangs, gangs... that sounds so familiar...

The majority of Black inmates (51%) were incarcerated for Schedule I23 (violent) offences in 2011/12. As of April 14, 2013, Black inmates were nearly two times more likely than the general inmate population to have a gang affiliation.

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LAST WORD: Hmmm... smells like a clue to me...

Three-hundred and twenty six people charged with firearms offences are free on bail in Toronto today, Chief Mark Saunders revealed Friday as he seeks to redistribute blame for the sudden increase in gun violence in the city over the last seven days.

To paraphrase Jeff Cooper...

...a complicated and expensive solution to a problem that doesn't even exist... homicidal farmers, deer hunters and skeet shooters...

"If we pursue our policy of regulating crime by strictly regulating gun availability to the general public we can reasonably expect that .0023% of our efforts will affect guns used in homicide and 99.997% of our effort will be wasted."

Hey Justin... here's a thought... if this is a magical solution, how about you enact a ban on murder, or even fentanyl?

Oh... wait...

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RELATED: Everyday feminine protection

“My question is do you believe a woman has a right to choose whether or not to defend her own body? And in the manner she chooses? And the government should not interfere with that decision?”

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LAST WORD: Ask someone with skin in the game...

"I think that it is nonsense. I think that it doesn't matter if there's a handgun ban, like street level wise, because they'll get access to the handguns anyways."

"The ban is an overreaction, especially when we know that they'll still be accessing the firearms and it will not deter them from using them."

Way past building a wall...

...it's time to call in airstrikes...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.

The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war,

In 2011, the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. In 2012, the Zetas drug cartel dumped 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico, and that same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall.

The thing is... nobody really seems to care.

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Praise the Lord and pass the...

...well, clotting agent...

A man was stabbed to death during a fight at a church in Hillcrest Village Wednesday afternoon. Toronto Police say the deadly encounter unfolded near St. Clair Ave. W. and Rushton Rd. — west of Bathurst St. — just after 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, in other Hogtown stabby news.

Proposed new judicial reform...

...let's drop Paul Bernardo, Russell Williams and their murderous ilk somewhere along the Nelson River with a six hour head start. Then we hand out pitchforks and torches...

Mounties announced Wednesday afternoon that two bodies, believed to be that of fugitives Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, were found Wednesday morning not far from the shoreline of the Nelson River.

McLeod, 19, and Schmegelsky, 18, from Port Alberni, B.C., were facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of a Vancouver man and the shooting deaths of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend.

Jar-Jar Binks...

..."The Lost Methamphetamine Years"...You ever wonder if people are gonna wake up one sunny day in 2025, shake their heads and wonder... "What the f*ck was that whole hysterical tranny business really about?"

And that's not a rhetorical question.

Smell the "professional" journalism

Yeah, Russia, that's who I'm worried about... wait...

MSNBC used a chyron on Tuesday evening that read “TRUMP-INSPIRED TERRORISM,” in quotation marks, during The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

"At no point did O’Donnell or his guest note that the El Paso shooter allegedly claimed that he had arrived at his racist ideas many years before Trump’s presidential campaign."

Well, Lawrence... as long as we're comfortable using a crazy person's political views to smear folks we don't agree with...

Betts was known to talk about politics and would frequently trash Republicans. His Twitter account, created in 2013, was suspended late Sunday night. Before it was suspended, the account's Twitter bio said: "he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i'm going to hell and i'm not coming back."

Betts once showed video of a mass shooting to a woman on their first date.

Funny... not seeing too many screaming headlines about "Bernie Inspired Terrorism."

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RELATED: Joking? At this point, who knows?

Times editors will hold a copy of the paper up in front of the review team, which consists of 300 angry, unemployed liberal arts college grads. If the review team screams and begins throwing feces around, the headlines will be deemed problematic and will be sent back to Times writers for another pass.