Ask an RCMP Commissioner

What is this "homeless" nonsense you speak of?

“The investigation is focusing on whether these interactions could have contributed or facilitated, in any way, the terrorist attack subsequently committed by Zehaf-Bibeau.”

Of course, not everyone is in agreement...

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said the latest information about Zehaf Bibeau indicates that he should not be defined as a terrorist.

C'mon Tommy... even Justin Al-Trudeau isn't fighting the RCMP on this one.

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RELATED: So much for Islamophobia...

Student filmaker's gotcha moment goes horribly wrong as Canadians defend 'victim' against faked racism.

While the Canadian media unquestioningly lap up Albach's explanation that this was a "social experiment"... Pam Gellar goes with Occam's Razor...

While thousands of mourners packed a church and lined adjacent streets in industrial Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday for the funeral of the soldier shot dead in last week’s attack on the nation’s seat of government, this Muslim filmmaker tried to make it all about “islamophobia.”

Victimizing the victim, that’s his jihad. No empathy, no humanity, just victimhood and supremacism.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Does this really surprise anybody? They were selling T-Shirts at this guy's FUNERAL."

Meet the Penis Police...

...or as I like to think of them, the Toronto Red Star Chamber...

I understand that the conventional wisdom is that most victims of sex assault don’t report, but surely to God, when they do, it should not be to a newspaper.

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RELATED: Eye of the beholder

Ghomeshi's public Facebook page has tripled its number of fans since his post about the allegations went up; over 100,000 people have liked this post, and nearly 50,000 have shared it.

A petition to “BAND TOGETHER AND SHOW THE CBC HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IMPACTED BY THEIR IRRATIONAL DECISION” (whatever that means) has over 4,000 signatures.

Looks like presumption of innocence still lives on.

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

The note, sent to CBC staff by e-mail on Tuesday afternoon, makes reference to a “continuing investigation” and says it will take into account “any new information that becomes available to us, either directly or indirectly.”

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UPDATE: Anonymous no more

"He did take me by the throat and press me against the wall and choke me," actress Lucy DeCoutere said. "And he did slap me across the face a couple of times."

She doesn't recall telling him to stop but said her facial expression turned very serious and Ghomeshi was no longer violent after that. She left within an hour and saw Ghomeshi two more times that weekend, but they did not discuss the incident, and no further violent incidents occurred.

She said she had no physical marks on her body from the attack and did not seek medical attention or report it to the police, partially because she felt there were too many holes in her story.

So, now the question is... will this matter proceed to the police?

Ask a Professional Journalist

Even as we bury Corporal Nathan Cirillo in Hamilton today, the mainstream media is busy commiserating with THE REAL VICTIMS of this horrendous crime.

I'm speechless.

The way Canadian media covers firearms related incidents in this country is spectacularly bereft of logic or reason. We know, from the constant panic-laden coverage that firearms ownership, taken largely for granted in our once mostly agricultural nation is now, according to our media betters... a cultural mark of Cain.

It extends even to our proud military, reduced, despite a heightened threat level, to carrying unloaded "ceremonial" rifles. Had Corporal Cirillo and his brethren on duty at the National War Memorial been permitted to carry live rounds (a quick pull on the charging handle to chamber a bullet) in the rifles they were holding, this tragic story could have had a very different ending.

Suddenly, surprisingly, after the murders of two Canadian soldiers in the space of two days, the CBC and like organisations have suddenly embraced firearms. Well, only one firearm, really... and only when it is fired by one unlikely person.

Big Mother, as we are all too well aware, resolutely regards firearms as the Devil's playthings. A businessman who defends his store, or a homeowner who repels a home invasion with a gun are considered criminals. If however, you are defending a politician, suddenly the worm turns.

And where is Wendy Cukier... when you really, really need her? Wendy and her ilk are all very quick to condemn private firearms ownership. They get all shrill and sweaty and aflutter every time a gun surfaces in the Canadian media.

Unlike, however... virtually ever other incident where a violent criminal is shot by police, no one in the media, or on the Opposition benches is demanding to know why Kevin Vickers didn't just shoot Michael Zehaf-Bibeau in the arm or leg.

Vickers immediately ran behind the other side of the pillar. That put him an arm's-length away from Bibeau. According to guards, Vickers actually could see the barrel of Bibeau's gun pointing out, a foot away.

Vickers did not hesitate. In one motion, sources told CBC News he dove to the floor around the pillar, at the feet of Bibeau, turning on his back as he landed and simultaneously firing his weapon upwards at Bibeau.

Bibeau was hit multiple times and fell to the ground. Vickers kept firing, emptying his entire magazine.

As soon as Bibeau dropped, the rest of the security team sprinted forward and opened fire.

Normally, there would be a media frenzy as reporters and left-leaning politicians demanded to know why tasers and teams of social workers had not been deployed.

I guess there are good guns and there are bad guns. Good guns save politicians lives... bad guns just save ordinary citizens.

That's just so wrong. I don't believe my wife or son's life is any less valuable than that of Tom Mulcair. Shouldn't the law of the land reflect that belief?

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RELATED: Muslim?!?! Whaddaya mean Muslim?!?!

Cirillo was shot in the back with a rifle by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, A HOMELESS MAN, who minutes later rushed the Centre Block of Parliament, where he wounded a security officer before being shot to death by Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.

Homeless, huh? I guess Justin Al-Trudeau was right about root causes after all. That whole leaving Canada to go to Saudi Arabia thing must've just been a coincidence.

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LAST WORD: The ultimate disrespect

The Ottawa Citizen spits on Nathan Cirillo's grave.

Thing is, Kathleen... I'm pretty sure...

...no one from my rural, largely agricultural community, would ever consider even badmouthing Canadian soldiers, never mind try to murder them.

So what is Premiere Wynne really saying?

"In Ontario we are already engaged with many communities, right from my own riding ... that has one of the largest Muslim populations in the country, and there are many, many people who are engaged with us."

I'm not sure what sort of engagement the Premiere is referring to. It can't be engaged as in marriage... because marrying outside the faith, or converting to another religion is a crime that, in most Muslim countries is punishable by death.

Maybe engagement is some sort of socialist codeword. Or maybe it's what you say when you don't actually have any real ideas about what to do.

I do know that when my parents immigrated here back in the fifties, no one bent over backwards trying to "engage" them. They were expected to be good citizens, lead productive lives and obey the laws of the land.

What is this engagement thing and why is the onus not on newcomers to fit into Canadian society? If immigrants don't believe that Canadians have a society that is superior to their country of origin... then why the heck did they come here?

Time for Ontarians to boycott Ford

The Ford Motor Company has been given almost 300 million dollars in taxpayer monies over the last decade...

TORONTO - The Ford Motor Co. is saying adios to plans for a new Windsor-built global engine, opting to take the investment and jobs to Mexico, the autoworkers’ union says.

The automaker apparently sought an unprecedented amount of government support to build the new global engine in Windsor.

No wonder Ontario is on the road to a Detroit-style bankruptcy. Ford put a pistol to our figurative head and when we stopped paying ransom, they pulled the trigger.

Wake up Ontario... and smell the extortion.

Maybe it's an ESL thing...

Dear Imam Hashmi... I don't think the words freedom and safety mean what you think they mean...

"I hope we are not going to change too much as far as our safety is concerned and as far as our freedom is concerned, but our safety was affected," said imam Sikander Hashmi from the Kanata Muslim Association on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning.

There are two people who have lost their lives to terrorist acts here (as well as many more maimed)... and none of them is Muslim. There are two terrorists who perpetrated these unspeakable acts... and both of them are. Muslim, that is.

Habib Nasrallah, a civilian member of the RCMP in Ottawa, also reached out to CBC News to share his thoughts on radicalized individuals. He wanted to make it clear Islam does not condone terrorist activity. "There are Muslims out there who are not insane, who understand Islam the way it should be understood."

Good to know, Habib. Again, I'm not sure whether there's a language barrier here, but you do understand that, using most local community standards, simply being "not insane" is setting the bar really, really low.

Always nice to get the scoop from fellows like Sikander and Habib. I'm sure the CBC has a list of acceptable go-to Muslims (no screaming beardies) that it uses for soundbites after events like the two recent attacks.

Thing is, you feel obligated to issue a press release stating that you are really not fine with violent, premeditated attacks (up to and including murder of persons you have never even met)... I'd venture you have more than a simple image problem.

More Rainbows and Unicorns...

...from the son of an infamous Canadian draft-dodger...Justin Trudeau, celebrated successor to the Liberal throne, ostensibly speaking for all Canadians, addressed the attack on the House of Commons and the murder of a second Canadian soldier in the space of two days without once using the words "TERRORISM" or "MURDER".

Whatever else you might say about Pierre-lite... that boy is fleet of mouth.

Despite these omissions, the heir transparent offers up his own body and those of his band of merry social workers to solve these "acts of violence".

I’ve extended an offer of full support to the government, along with any assistance members of our party can provide at this time.

Sure thing, kiddo... you and your peeps jock up, grab Glocks and kevlar and synch up with the Mounties at Centre Block.

Oh, wait... "full support" actually means standing up during question period and assembling weaselly words into thinly disguised attacks on Stephen Harper. 

Sort of like your "dick joke" in support of sending Canadian air-assets to combat ISIS.

And that plug for Moderate Islam was one heck of a touch.

"To our friends and fellow citizens in the Muslim community, Canadians know acts such as these committed in the name of Islam are an aberration of your faith."

Thing is, I'm guessing most Canadians would prefer to hear that sort of thing from the horse's, er... Imam's mouth. 

Also,  I don't think aberration means what you think it means.

Thre problem with your premise is that these so-called "aberrations of the faith" are daily front page news in any Islamic country I bring to mind. 

Every day we read about bombings and beheadings, the kidnapping of young girls, the murder and mistreatment of wives and daughters... all in the name of Allah.  These places seem less like civilised nations than really, really big gang fights. 

Gang fights with heavy weapons and high explosives.

Sure, people will hold up Turkey as a shining example of a civilised country, but even the Turks aren't above slaughtering thousands of Armenians or Kurds if the wind is blowing in the right direction.

The point I'm trying to make here is that we need to be doing all that we can to stop the spread of this behaviour and this violent belief system into Canada... preferably before we end up under siege... a North American Israel, if you will.

People like Justin Trudeau are telling Canadians that this sort of thing can NEVER happen here. I say only, in response to Justy's touchy-feely left-wing argle-bargle... wake-up and smell the cordite... it already has.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST:   What would Stephen Harper say?

"The gunman who staged a deadly attack Wednesday on Parliament Hill was a terrorist whose despicable crime will only harden Canada's resolve to crack down on terrorists at home and abroad."

CRIME DU JOUR:   Boko Haram strikes again

LAST WORD:   Remember when being critical...

......wasn't a crime against humanity?

C'mon you nasty right-wing deniers...

...it's not like this guy knows anything about the weath... wait a minute...Hmmm... this could be a bad day to be Michael Mann.

We don' need no steenkin facts

Just something to consider the next time Ferguson, Missouri goes up in flames...

Criminology professor David Klinger told KMOX’s Charlie Brennan that he conducted a thorough, decade-long study that showed there were 1,265 murders over that time, with 90 percent of the victims being black. And 90 percent of those black victims were killed by other blacks.

“While I understand the people are concerned about the use of deadly force by the police, by far – about 50 to 1 – more blacks in St. Louis are killed by other blacks as compared to white police officers,” Klinger says.

Over that same period, Klinger says 31 blacks were killed by police officers – 21 by white police officers.

“The sad fact is, we had well over a thousand black-on-black homicides in the city of St. Louis during that same decade,” he says.

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NYAH, NYAH, NYAH... we can't hear you

Seven or eight African American eyewitnesses have provided testimony consistent with Wilson’s account, but none of them have spoken publicly out of fear for their safety, The Washington Post’s sources said.

You may not support the right...

...to own firearms. That is your choice. You may not believe in God. That is also your prerogative.

Funny, though... the first thing you progressives all do when the shit hits the fan... is call 911 to summon armed guardians. The second is you pray that they get there on time.

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UPDATE: Slain Hamilton Reservist Id'd

"The Ottawa shooting victim is Nathan Cirillo, 24, a reservist serving in Hamilton from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment."

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UPDATE2: Liberal Party of Canada prays...

...don't be Muslim, don't be Muslim... sonuvabitch!!!!

The man alleged to have murdered Cirillo is Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

Zehaf-Bibeau was shot dead by first responders. Some background here.

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LAST WORD: So let me get this straight...

...there are bad guns and there are good guns.

Now that a second Canadian soldier...

...has been murdered on Canadian soil this past week... will Justin Trudeau be stepping up his perpetual Easter Egg hunt for "root causes"?

Liberals and Dippers will no doubt be protesting, "Who could have seen this coming?"

Well, fellas... that'd be the Conservative Party of Canada.

Just last month, Public Safety minister Steven Blaney tabled his report “2014 Public Report On The Terrorist Threat To Canada” and warned “terrorism remains the leading threat to Canada’s national security.”

How prophetic those words now ring in Ottawa.

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ASK A LIBERAL LEADER:Yeah, vote for Justin Trudeau. I dare you.

Ask a "PROFESSIONAL" journalist

CBC reports...

"There's so much we don't know about who may be behind this."

CBC now reporting there may be a myriad of reasons for this latest incident. Despite a billion dollar yearly government subsidy they are actually advising people to keep an eye on Twitter.

Me, I'm thinking it's another Amish uprising.

More nuggets from Canada's national broadcaster...

"I'm hearing all kinds of sounds, but I don't know what they are."

Another CBC professional breathily recounting that she sees police officers...WEARING BULLETPROOF VESTS!!!

Obviously we need a little more outreach.

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CBC Radio reporting: NDP Caucus Superheroes

So a Dipper MP brought her infant to work. Yet another "professional" journalist apparently got the goods from an NDP stalwart inside the locked room where the heroic members were hunkered down.

"The baby, the baby, let's try to protect the baby at all costs."

See... under Tom Mulcair no child will actually be left behind.

Of course, we all know if the baby had been present at the Conservative gathering, Stephen Harper would have used it a a human shield.

Not really such a bold move...

...for a man who'll have an armed detail of bodyguards for the rest of his life...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to seek a vendor to produce as many as 34 million blank work permits and 'green cards' – the paperwork that authorizes illegal immigrants to live in the United States – as the White House prepares to issue an executive order AFTER the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

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THE WHITEHOUSE RESPONDS: Just kidding

"White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest declined to address a Breitbart News report about a 'surge' of immigration ID’s requested by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services."

Surprise, surprise.

Burying the lede

It's what "professional" journalists do best...

"The officials briefed on the case said the forensic evidence gathered in the car lent credence to Officer Wilson’s version of events."

Get ready to watch Ferguson go up in flames.

RELATED: Just the facts, Ma'am

FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOX) – A report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this morning shows the official autopsy supports Ferguson officer Darren Wilson’s claim that Michael Brown struggled with him in his patrol vehicle, and that Brown did not have his hands up when he was shot Aug. 9.

It's past time Canadians dealt with...

...the enduring shame of horse-o-phobia...

The Danish law currently states that humans can have sex with animals as long as the animal doesn’t suffer, which begs the question: how would one know if an animal enjoyed human sex?

Surely, now... if the small-minded Conservative haters are opposed to inter-species love... Justin must immediately launch a new diversity initiative. Yet another Liberal policy... "Yea & Neigh."

Canadian Euthanasia Initiative...

...slowly but surely upping success rate...Yeah, let's blame the inanimate powder... not the people who bought it, prepared it and injected it onto their veins. 'Cos we all know that pencils write poetry.

Like all government programs, this one continues to grow... and grow...

“One time a girl came and told me there were 44 people in front of her,” said Lampkin.

That kind of lineup would represent a considerable wait, because users take an average of 15 to 20 minutes each. Some take considerably longer.

Your tax dollars at work.

"Let them eat aspirin"

More political proctology from Dr O'Blarney...

“The administration’s decision to withhold the costs of this law until after Election Day is just more proof that Obamacare is a bad deal for Americans.”

Uh, honey... where's that shopping list?

...right, I'm gonna be needing gold bars, beans and bullets... and not necessarily in that order...

Regulators from the United States and the United Kingdom will get together in a war room next week to see if they can cope with any possible fall-out WHEN the next big bank topples over, the two countries said on Friday.

Anybody else notice they weren't using the word "IF"?

Justin Trudeau rejiggers Catholicism

And don't get him started about voting your conscience...

Women’s reproductive rights trump the freedom of Liberal members of parliament to "vote their conscience" on abortion, Justin Trudeau said.

Trudeau has said that any Liberal MP, regardless of their personal beliefs, would have to vote against any proposed legislation that could limit a woman’s right to an abortion.

Justin Trudeau claims to be a Catholic... but he not only supports abortion... he's made it a mandatory Liberal Party plank. Stop and think about that for a moment. Your Liberal MP is not allowed to consider your wishes, or even think for himself. He or she must put aside all other considerations and vote the Justin line.

Of course, that kind of thinking makes sense when you consider Justin's stated admiration of the Chinese oligarchy. I guess Justin is convinced he knows better. I'm not sure how he still considers himself Catholic. As far as I know the Catholic Church still considers abortion to be a terrible sin. Perhaps Justin has some sort of pipeline to the Pontiff that none of us mortals have access to.

Justin's unwillingness to support Canada's military action against ISIS and his outright refusal to support revoking Canadian passports of homegrown Jihadis is similarly puzzling. One could cynically chalk it up to pandering for support among the Muslim electorate... or using Occam's Razor, place it firmly at the feet of Justin's naive world view. This isn't the first time the Shiny Pony has been caught with a bagful of magical fairy dust.

Any one of these positions should be enough to set off loud warning bells. Who could possibly take a stand against voting your conscience? Oh right... somebody who thinks the Chinese Politburo is the epitome of political thought.

Carte Blanche or, uh...

...something like that...

The teacher’s union, with 76,000 members, has a posting on its website looking for presenters for a workshop called “Re-thinking White Privilege,” but without any definition for the term.

It asks only that candidates understand “white privilege and systemic issues,” and have a commitment to equity and social justice.

Full speed ahead, Ontario... you can define all those pesky terms later.

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AND VIA SDA, THERE'S THIS:Of course... what have heterosexual caucasians ever accomplished in this world?

Rules are for "little people"

The Secret Service gave information to the White House suggesting that an Obama aide had a prostitute in his hotel room in Colombia. This led to the firing or punishment of nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and U.S. soldiers, but not the aide.

Oh yeah, the aide in question was the son of a lobbyist who had, coincidentally, made a rather significant contribution to Obama's campaign fund.

Hope and change, my arse.

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GREAT MOMENTS IN PROGRESSIA:

"It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass."

You mean, like rewriting the law of the land?

The White House is drafting options that would allow President Barack Obama to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by overriding a congressional ban on bringing detainees to the U.S., senior administration officials said.

Such a move would be the latest and potentially most dramatic use of executive power by the president in his second term.

Yeah, Gwyneth... power-wise... I'm thinkin' he's doing just fine.

“Your risk is such that..."

"...you cannot be managed effectively in segregation of a maximum security institution, never mind in the community."

And then they let him go.

Now, c'mon Justin... aren't you gonna feel...

...even the tiniest morsel of regret when Mrs Tiddleywink gets decapitated over by the Shoppers Drug Mart?

BREAKING:

As federal officials touted national agencies’ success in stopping terrorist acts at an Ottawa committee hearing, NBC News published a report saying that U.S. intelligence officials are tracking ISIS imitators in Canada targetting the U.S. embassy in Ottawa and an unspecified shopping mall.

Couldn't happen here, right?

Not to worry... there's always golf

Nasty right-wing naysayers trashing poor Hopey Dreamy... wait a minute...Talk about taking "eating your own young" to a whole new level.

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:

A former spokesman for President Barack Obama, Bill Burton, is upset about some of the things Panetta wrote in his memoir, which hit shelves yesterday, and called the long-time public servant "sad," "dishonorable," "small and petty."

I'm a little surprised he didn't call Panetta a racist. I'm sure someone on Team Dreamy will.

Homicide squad, yet again, rounding up local...

...farmers, hunters & skeet shooters... wait a minute...

Toronto police ... continue to search for at least three other suspects, a day after two male students died during a brazen daytime shooting in Etobicoke.

The double shooting happened outside of the Toronto District School Board's School of Experiential Education... at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

That's gotta be as experiential as it gets. What's so special about this particular school?

Okay, I get it now.

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UPDATE: Two dead students identified

One of the victims, 17-year-old Zaid Yousif, was a student at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary near Islington Ave. and Dixon Rd., not far from where the shooting occurred.

The second victim was identified by friends as 15-year-old Michael Menjivar. He was a student at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic high school, located near Keele St. and Finch Ave.

Remember back in high school, somebody made you angry... you pulled out a gun and shot them?

Yeah... me neither.

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UPDATE2: “Negatives of the community.”

Friends in Regent Park are reeling over the loss of 18-year-old Yusuf Ali, one of three teens shot dead in Toronto in a single afternoon this week.

Ali was shot to death on Sydenham Rd. near Shuter St. and Trefann St. on Monday afternoon. That same day, two teens — 15-year-old Michael Menjivar and 17-year-old Zaid Youssef — were fatally shot near a high school in Etobicoke.

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LAST WORD:

The double murder comes two weeks after Hamid Aminzada, 19, was stabbed to death in a hallway at North Albion C.I. -- a school located only a few hundred metres from where Yousif's family lives.

The Party of "FLIP"...

...NO, NO, NO... I mean, definitely, "FLOP"...

Some people have been saying...

"...that these are not cats. I understand wanting to believe that. It’s like wanting to believe that racism is over. We all want to believe that the world is a better place than it is."

"However, it is clear that what you see here are in fact cats.They are just not very good cats."

Homicide squad rounding up local...

...farmers, hunters & skeet shooters... wait a minute...

TORONTO - A man is dead after being shot multiple times during what appears to be an early morning robbery outside an unlicensed after-hours club in the city’s west end.

Bright lights, big city.

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MORE: Latest murder victim id'd

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EVEN MORE: Oops, spoke too soon

TORONTO - One man has been shot dead in the downtown core and three suspects considered armed and dangerous were being sought by police Monday afternoon.

The shooting happened in an alley just east of Parliament St. south of Shuter St.

What a place.

In lieu of cozying up to dictators...

...taking funeral procession selfies and swappin' spit with newly minted brides... perhaps Justin Trudeau could do a little bit of research on the War Measures Act.

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RELATED: An "unserious" mindActually, I'm more worried about Justins apparently unlimited supply of magic fairy dust.

Olivia... surely it's time to act

How long will you hesitate before declaring Toronto a "knife-free" zone?

Const. Victor Kwong said the man suffered "obvious injuries" and was pronounced dead at the scene. The man, the city's 41st murder victim of the year, has not yet been identified.

FROM THE COMMENTS

"... searching for a word here that doesn't start with F..."

I'm sure it must have been...

...a problem with the tele-prompter...

Weeks before he will reportedly enact a massive executive amnesty for illegal immigrants, President Barack Obama was silent on immigration when he addressed the Congressional Black Caucus' Phoenix Awards Dinner on Saturday evening in Washington, D.C.

I mean... what possible reason would the President have to try pull a fast one on the Congressional Bla... wait a minute...

Critics of amnesty, like U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow, have warned that granting work permits to millions of more illegal immigrants would have a disparate impact on black workers trying to move up the economic ladder. The black unemployment rate is 11.2%, and a record number of blacks are not even in the workforce.

You can almost smell the leadership.

How about we listen to the guy...

...who isn't throwing his intelligence apparatus under the bus...

"Make no mistake, ISIS must be defeated," Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly, referring to the Islamic State group.

"But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state power is to win the battle and lose the war."

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MEANWHILE BACK AT BARACK INC.

President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

The Emperor's new clothes are looking especially shiny of late.

A century later...

The remains of four Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War were identified Saturday.

They are Lt. Clifford Neelands, Lance Sgt. John Lindell, Pvt. Lachlan McKinnon and Pvt. William Simms.

And then there's this...

OTTAWA — For 98 years, Capt. Richard Steacie’s remains have rested in a Belgian gravesite, buried with the vaguest of inscriptions — "Captain of the 14th Battalion Unknown".

You know when they start...

...crapping on Winston Churchill... the end is nigh...

"Britain should serve as a haunting lesson of what happens when a people intellectualizes themselves into a position so far to the left it condones their own self-destruction."

Have the dominoes already started to fall?

So you get to work...

...and the powers-that-be tell you, "It's a little crazy around here, so we're letting the 'Leader of the Free World' and the Attorney General of the United States conduct all our job performance reviews... on national network TV."

You'd be good with that, right? It wouldn't cause you to doubt yourself or slow down your reaction times... would it?Speaking of reaction...

KTVI reported that dozens of protesters initially showed up at the scene in the mistaken belief that the officer had shot someone. By midnight, approximately two dozen officers stood near a group of about 100 protesters who mingled on a street corner across from the police department, occasionally shouting, "No justice; no peace."

Ferguson, Missouri... where entrenched bias trumps facts.

It's a little like Washington, DC.

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BILLION DOLLAR BABY: Your CBC has...

...another angle reporting on the shooting of a police officer...

"An apology would be when [Officer] Darren Wilson has handcuffs, processed and charged with murder," Michael Brown Sr. said.

No gentle giant, er... child... left behind.

Homicide squad rounding up local...

...farmers, hunters & skeet shooters... wait a minute...

A man was stabbed to death out front of a pool hall in East York early Saturday, Toronto Police said.

Officers responded to a 911 call on Danforth Ave., just east of Greenwood Ave., around 1:10 a.m. and found the “lifeless” body of a man in his 20s on the sidewalk in front of Danny Greens Billiards Bar, police said.

The man was pronounced dead in hospital becoming the city’s 39th murder victim of the year, he said.

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DESTINED TO HAPPEN HERE:

TORONTO - A man was injured when gunfire erupted at a plaza in Scarborough early Saturday.

Toronto Police say the shooting occurred around 4:50 am out front of the 2 Jerks Bar on Warden Ave., south of Eglinton Ave. E.

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UPDATE: Metro Housing, 3:00 am...
...an obvious mugshot...

Toronto police have identified a 22-year-old man fatally shot at a Toronto Community Housing complex at Eglinton Avenue and Markham Road at around 3:20 a.m Monday morning.

In a release issued Monday evening, Toronto police identified the victim as Dillon Phillips, of Toronto.

A parade of dead and broken bodies. Not the Toronto I remember.

There's a very good reason why...

...some folks are damned to the buttcrack of political obscurity...

Preach Peace...

Wage War...

Eight of the 22 airstrikes that began Monday night Washington time were aimed at targets associated with an alleged al-Qaeda cell in Aleppo called the Khorasan group, an organization so obscure that U.S. officials had never even mentioned it by name until a week ago.

By Tuesday, officials across the Obama administration and U.S. military were describing the group as an “imminent threat” to this country.

Rules are for little people. Thank goodness President Obama (unlike his bloodthirsty predecessor) has access to those special cruise missiles that don't cause collateral damage (aka non-combatants, women & children).

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WEASEL WORDS: Dear Mr PresidentAir strikes and cruise missiles don't 'dismantle'... THEY DISEMBOWEL.

This isn't like breaking up a rowdy frat party... it's premeditated homicide. That's part of the job.

Maybe Obama should get a Nobel prize for fiction.

Remember back in high school...

...somebody pissed you off... you'd shank 'em and step over their bleeding body?

Yeah... me neither.

A 19-year-old male student is dead after being stabbed at a high school in Rexdale over the noon-hour Tuesday.

“Emergency responders arrived and found the victim suffering from stab wounds to his face and stomach.”

Rexdale, Rexdale... that sounds so familiar.

The suspect is described as a black male about age 17 with medium height and build and wearing a blue T-shirt.

Just another day in the hood.

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REXDALE NEWSFLASH: Cops nab other school killer

In January, police issued a Canada-wide warrant for a 23-year-old Reshane Hayles-Wilson, of Mississauga.
Hayles-Woilson was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder.

Oh, c'mon... what's all the fuss about?

It's not like she was caught butt-naked in a house of ill-repute...Hmmm...

For $25, a donor received a handwritten thank-you note from Ms. Borg. For $50, she would say a donor’s name in Parliament. A $500 donation bought dinner with the MP. And for $1,000, she would utter the Star Trek line “Resistance is futile” in Parliament, a nod to the Star Trek alien race that shares her name.

I'm beginning to understand why the NDP is so enthusiastic about legal prostitution.

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FROM THE NATPO COMMENTS:

"And getting paid to say the Star Trek line, she's basically acting like a clown. It's like she's dancing on a table for money. What would she do for $1500 or $2000?"

Indeed.

They look in your face and they lie

All that hopey-changey stuff Obama & Biden were peddling...

Romney said it was a mistake to end the war in Iraq and bring all of our warriors home,” Biden told an audience in York, Penn., on September 2, 2012. He [Romney] implies by the speech that he’s ready to go to war in Syria and Iran.”

I guess this is the changey part...

The United States and several Middle East partners pounded Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday with waves of warplanes and Tomahawk cruise missiles in an aggressive and risky operation marking a new phase in the conflict.

Sure, when the Dems do it... it's a good thing, right?

They're just hopey that nobody remembers what they said previously.

A line they will not cross

Who says the Democrats don't have standards?

"Lois Lerner says she is no Jeffrey Dahmer."

When a DNR...

...just isn't enough.

Here's the real difference

Justin Trudeau has busloads of post-menopausal Facebook cheerleaders... Stephen Harper has principles.Remember when treason wasn't a stepping stone to a six figure book deal? Finally, someone is willing to act.

The government has begun invalidating the passports of Canadians who have left to join extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander revealed in an interview on Friday.

That's my Prime Minister.

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EQUAL TIME: Ask a Liberal leader

Where does the "abortions and dope on demand" party stand on terrorism?

No Wendy...

...the sky is not falling...

TORONTO -- A former American military sniper who fired his gun to scare off a stray dog in a rural area of Ontario deserves another trial on charges of careless use of a firearm, the province's top court ruled Friday. In its decision, the Court of Appeal said two lower courts were wrong to convict John Batty on the basis that the simple act of firing his gun was dangerous, and noted their rulings could have serious implications for those who live outside urban areas.

You really wanna save lives... start up an alcohol and tobacco registry.

It makes at least as much sense...

...as an alleged Roman Catholic whipping the pro-abortion vote...

Trudeau was criticized last year when he was asked which country he admires the most and replied China because having a dictatorship can allow it to turn the Chinese economy around “on a dime.”

You may not have as much freedom under a Liberal oligarchy... but I betcha Dear Leader Justin makes sure all the trains run on time.

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LEADERSHIP IN ACTION:

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau refused to answer when asked if convicted terrorist Hiva Alizadeh - a Canadian-Iranian dual citizen sentenced to 24 years in prison this week - is the type of Canadian whose citizenship his party wouldn't revoke.

Nice hair... shame about the brain

Aye, pet... ah reckon it...

...wisnae mint tae be...

An Inconvenient Lawsuit

Somewhere out there... there's a mountain of...... dead polar bears.

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ASK MARK STEYN:

"Instead of arguing that it's a violation of the First Amendment to laugh at Dr Mann, wouldn't it be easier to get some non-laughingstock figure who can debate his way out of a paper bag?"

Oooh... that's gonna leave a mark.

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UPDATE: Another Mann down

The climate alarmism edifice is slowly crumbling as study after study comes out showing that they've badly overstated their claims of catastrophe.

That the LA Times would actually report this study is amazing, though of course they had to get Trenberth to provide the obligatory "the earth is burning" quote.

The media is starting to hedge their bets.

All Ferguson, all the time

Yet another story you will not see at the CBC.

Rumour has it...

Olivia Chow will announce mandatory "plastic cutlery within GTA" campaign plank...

TORONTO - A man is dead and another is in police custody after a stabbing at a North York home Sunday night.

Maybe it's something in the water.

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UPDATE: More arrests made

TORONTO - Two men wanted for last week’s killing of a 60-year-old man in the city’s west end have been arrested.

Jamal Hassan, 22, and Gonffa Krow, 20, both of Toronto, each face charges of second-degree murder and assault causing bodily harm.

PLAN B

While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home.

The nightmare scenario is that the outbreak may be mutating into an aerially transmissable variant.

Looks like the State Department has decided to protect their own. Might not be a bad time for us common folk to grab some N-95 filter masks and Tyvek suits from the local hardware store...

The huge bulk order of hazmat suits for Ebola has stoked concerns that the U.S. government expects the virus to continue to ravage countries in west Africa and may also be concerned about an outbreak inside the United States.

Be afraid.

Fundamentalist Tea Party Christians...

...butcher yet another helpless Musl... wait a minute...

Obama to resign Presidency?

There's an offer on the table.

Oops there goes another...

TORONTO - A 22-year-old man found dead behind a York Mills apartment building Thursday morning is now the city’s latest murder victim, Toronto Police said.

Homicide detectives took over the investigation Thursday afternoon after determining the slain man is the city’s 33rd homicide victim of the year.

That's what... three separate murders this week?

I thought Olivia Chow was gonna declare Toronto a "homicide-free" zone.

No Gentle Giants here

TORONTO - A man is dead following a shooting Monday in the city's west end.

But that's not all... apparently the knives are out as well.

Toronto Police responded to the bar near Danforth Ave. and Dawes Rd. shortly after 5 p.m. and found the two victims suffering from apparent stab wounds.

It’s believed the pair were attacked by as many as six assailants.

The killing is one of two murders that occurred in Toronto — the city’s 31st and 32nd homicides of the year.

Attacked by a knife-wielding gang... that's some city you've got there.

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UPDATE: Murdered man id'd

TORONTO - A man who was gunned down in North York earlier this week has now been officially identified.

He said the dead man has been identified as Joseph Okoro, 21, of Toronto.

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UPDATE2: Another murdered man id'd

Abdul Monir, 31, was gunned down after midnight as he finished his shift at Halal Pizza Time near Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue, where he had begun working a few weeks ago. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Rahim Dorani, the shop’s owner, was also shot and underwent surgery Sunday. “He’s doing better right now,” said his son, Hekmat Dorani.

The hits just keep on coming.

Uh, Mr Holder sir... I know you're...

...really, really busy...

FROM THE REDDIT COMMENTS:

[–]3Dartwork 102 points 21 hours ago

"Please don't be black...please don't be black...."

"son of a bitch."

Wonder how much coverage this story will be getting over at the CBC.

Well, no... I actually don't.

Numeracy, fate and...

...sometimes the sky really is falling...

Always remember, "statistical anomaly" just means you probably won't see it coming.

Did Barack and Hillary really believe...

...they could peddle that ridiculous Benghazi fairytale?

A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News’ Bret Baier.

Their account gives a dramatic new turn to what the Obama administration and its allies would like to dismiss as an “old story” – the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

It didn't make sense then... and it sure doesn't now as more critical info surfaces.

Coming soon... to an IRB center near you

A video has emerged that an Ebola-infected patient has escaped a quarantine zone in Liberian hospital and went to a local crowded market in search of food. He was then pursued by medical staff and returned to hospital.

A local resident told the media that it is the fifth case in which a patient has escaped the quarantine zone.

On August 18, at least 17 suspected Ebola carriers fled the same hospital in Monrovia after a quarantine center was attacked by a rock-throwing crowd. They were then successfully returned to the facility.

This is not an "if" people... it's a "when".

How many N95 filter masks do you own?

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LAST WORD: Magical medical moment

(Reuters) - A Nigerian doctor with Ebola carried on treating patients and met scores of friends, relatives and medics before his death, leaving about 60 of them at high risk of infection, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Don't worry though, it's being handled...

Members of his church visited him in hospital in the oil hub Port Harcourt and performed a healing ceremony "said to involve the laying on of hands", said the U.N. agency.

Relax, folks... it's not like anybody ever travels to North America from Nigeria... right?

No wonder California is going...

...down the shitter...

The Berkeley City Council in California has unanimously approved, ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2 percent of their stash to patients making less than $32,000 a year.

The new welfare program in the liberal-leaning city is set to launch in August 2015.

Wonder how long it'll take the Wynne Liberals to start handing out bongs and free dope?

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IN OTHER MEDICAL MARIJUANA NEWS:

MONTREAL — Liberal Party of Canada CFO Chuck Rifici has become a multimillionaire in just a few months thanks to his stock-traded medical marijuana company, QMI Agency has learned.

Documents show Rifici's initial investment in Tweed Marijuana Inc. has so far sprouted into an $18-million bumper crop.

Amazing.

It's no big deal... really...

...we can just change that to a Nobel Prize for fiction...

The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’

Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change.

But seven years after his warning, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.

At least you don't have to stay up nights worrying about those poor polar bears anymore.

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RELATED: It's hard to be green

Gore’s 20-room, eight-bathroom mansion located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

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LAST WORD:

"They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold."

Just your average eco-hero.

In the Kivila language...

...of the Trobriand Islands there is a lovely word, “mokita”, which means “truth we all know but agree not to talk about”. I am about to speak some mokitas.

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UPDATE: Oh, c'mon you crybabies...

...it's not like it was first degree...I wish I could say I was surprised.

Last Canadian Comedian Standing

Surely somebody has to be pitching this explosive new reality TV show for CBC's fall lineup..."So... a man walks into a bar with a knife, a severed head and a block of plastic explosive..."

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RELATED: A Killer Routine

I remember when businesses had to...

...make it on their own...

The Windsor Star reports that the Ontario government has pledged $385-million in assistance to Ford Motor Co. and the feds are considering matching the investment. The project, an expanded engine plant in Windsor, is expected to result in between 400 to 1,000 new jobs, which makes the taxpayer bill roughly $1-million per new job.

ASK A LAWYER

From our voluminous "just watch me" file...

Gosling’s defence lawyer, Chuck Syme, insisted that his client should not go to jail because the Crown decided to drop charges on the same crimes against Bentley.

“You can’t let the guy walk because he’s Jamaican and send my client, a mother of four, to jail,” Syme said outside of court.

His client, by-the-by is the aforementioned Bentley's wife. Check out the con they were working.

RELATED: Who is Beth-Ann Gosling?

"This is a very complex situation,” Crawford said at the time. “This woman has been convicted of a very serious offence, but she is a breastfeeding mom and there is no doubt the child needs her.”

Wait a minute...

But during her sentencing hearing, the judge learned from medical reports it was all a lie. Gosling then explained to her probation officer that she couldn’t breastfeed because she has breast cancer — but that was a lie too.

“She lied to the court about breastfeeding to avoid going to jail,” Crown attorney Sarah Renaud told court.

And the justice system is making deals with these two criminals? Unbelievable.

Why Dalton McGuinty fled Ontario

Reason #14: He didn't want to be around when the lights went out.

The report by former Ontario Teacher Pension Plan guru Jim Leech said the pension plans for Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Hydro One (H1), Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) and the Electricity Safety Authority (ESA) are unsustainable.

For every $1 contributed to the plan by the employee, taxpayers and hydro ratepayers contributed more than $5, the report says.

“In 2012, total contributions from all sources to the four plans were approximately $585 million,” it says.

“Of the $585 million, just over $100 million was contributed from employees.”

All of which is pushing up the cost of electricity.

Here's the real zinger...

Ontario’s net debt has soared by 89% since 2007-08 — a rate faster than that of the federal government or any other province, even Quebec, which also has staggering levels of debt.

Don't blame me, I didn't vote Liberal.

"We don' need no steenkin' evidence"

Remember all those old movies where John Wayne or Gary Cooper stands up to the lynch mob who wants to hang the prisoner in the town lockup? Then there's Eric "Third Autopsy is the charm" Holder...

"This officer has to be indicted. I'd hate to see what happens if he isn't. The rioting, the looting, man ...," said resident Larry Loveless.

The narrative about Michael Brown being shot in the back has been refuted by three autopsies, the officer was grievously injured by the suspect... but the mob must be appeased.*****

COMPARE & CONTRAST: Your hear about Elmendorf, Texas?

Of course you didn't... the dead guy was a cop.

Joshua Manuel Lopez, 24, was taken into custody on charges of capital murder of a police officer, Pamerleau said. When Lopez was stopped, he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant for graffiti.

Crickets.

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UPDATE: CNN runs for cover

CNN's timing of the release made perfect sense. The leftwing network dropped the audio the day after treating the funeral of Michael Brown as though he was a head of state. With the death porn concluded and the Ferguson streets quiet, CNN needed to fill the race-baiting vacuum with something.

Who needs facts? Nothing must interrupt the fairy tale.

Another story you're not gonna see...

...on the CBC...

Wednesday in Ferguson, the buzz was about a Facebook posting by local radio station 100.7 FM claiming the officer in the Aug. 9 shooting, Darren Wilson, would not be indicted because key witnesses said 18-year-old Michael Brown attacked the officer and attempted to take away his gun. Fox News reported Wilson suffered severe facial injuries, including an eye-socket fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun.

It's Trayvon all over again... right down to interference from the Whitehouse... and suddenly the media is packing their bags?

Where's the justice for Officer Darren Wilson?

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RELATED: He lied before...

...the autopsy report shows he's lying again...

He has already done multiple media appearances where he falsely claimed Brown was shot by Wilson in the back. He also has claimed that Brown never reached for Wilson’s gun, was “shot like an animal” and that Brown had his hands up and told Wilson he was unarmed.

What exactly does it take before the MSM stops peddling their flawed narrative?

LAST WORD: You can do the right thing

Support Officer Darren Wilson

Somebody refresh my memory...

...which medical school did Dr. Justin Trudeau attend?

Oh yeah... that'd be the Keith Richards School of Pharmacology.

They already opposed tobacco. Now the nation’s doctors say Canadians shouldn’t smoke “any plant material” whatsoever, including marijuana. Delegates at the Canadian Medical Association’s general council meeting voted Wednesday to formally oppose the smoking of any plant substance.

Outgoing CMA president Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti said smoking harms the lungs’ “natural cleaning and repair system and traps cancer-causing chemicals” in the airways.

He cited a 2008 study by the American Chemical Society that found marijuana smoke contains many of the same chemicals as tobacco smoke but in substantially higher levels.

Ever seen a picture of a cancerous lung? I guess Justin hasn't.

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RELATED: Yes, I did inhale

"What I remember about smoking dope was that it made you loll around on that dusty old couch in somebody's partially finished basement... listening endlessly to the same Steppenwolf 8-track tape, on a stereo cranked up so high it would've sterilised a labrador retriever."

And then I grew up and had a family.

With apologies to George Orwell

Some stories are more equal than others.

Well, the appetizer was an...

...orbital blowout fracture...Whaddaya suppose this "gentle giant" would've served up as a main course?

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UPDATE: Brown buddy admits lyingThe question now is... will this stop the looting & burning... or will the looters double down?

If President Obama had another son...

Attorney General Eric Holder steps in and Trayvonates investigation...

The "extraordinary circumstances" surrounding Brown's death and a request by his family prompted the Justice Department's decision to conduct a THIRD autopsy, agency spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.

You know... 'circumstances' like forensic evidence running totally contrary to eyewitness accounts of what happened.

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UPDATE: New eyewitness suddenly surfaces...

...just after autopsy results that refute previous eyewitness testimony that Michael Brown was shot in the back.

According to Piaget Crenshaw, Wilson looked like he was trying to pull Brown into the police car. She said it “upset the officer” that Brown got away, and he began firing at him.

By her account, when one of the bullets grazed Brown's arm, he turned around and “then he was shot multiple times.”

Yup... only now he was shot in the front of his body. Whew, that was a close call.

How good is this new witness? Heck she's even able to tell you what the police officer was thinking...

She described how after Brown was lying dead on the street, “Wilson looks baffled, like 'What have I just done?'”

Front, back... those are just tiny details, right?

I guess my question is... just how many times do witnesses get to change the narrative?

Friend of Ferguson Officer...

...gives an account of the shooting from a non-looter perspective.

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UPDATE: No, I get it. I really do.

There is this mountain of rage that has risen up from the mainstream media reporting that this "gentle giant" was assassinated as he ran away from a police officer.

What changes here if that is simply not true?

I mean, we can trust the MSM to do the right thing... right?

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UPPERDATE: And then, there's this...

A previously unnoticed detail in a background conversion of a video taken minutes after the Ferguson shooting could change the course of the investigation into Mike Brown’s death.

This video appears to corroborate the account given at the start of this post... AND confirm the preliminary autopsy diagram which refutes the narrative that Mike Brown was shot in the back as he was fleeing the scene of the confrontation.

I'm from the government, I'm here...

...to save, er... uhmmm... Dave's not home, man...

Whistler Medical Marijuana Corp. issued a voluntary recall for its White Widow strain (Lot L0004) on Friday after two customers complained about the product’s appearance, leading to testing that found the presence of mould, said Health Canada.

It’s not immediately known how many of Canada’s roughly 40,000 medical marijuana users are affected by the latest recall — the third of its kind this year.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Geoff says:

if you wanna know who loves you the most lock your woman and your dog in the boot of your car for an hour then see who’s happy to see you when you open it

October 22, 2013 at 6:26 am

Those racist, redneck Albertans...

...wait a minute...

"Farah Mohamed Shirdon, who had been enrolled in the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology until at least 2012, came from a prominent and well-educated Somali family."

Of course, he's sympathetic...

...Justin Trudeau gets the big bucks because he's got the right DNA too...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation reported that chief Darren Whitford of the O’Chiese First nation earned more than $265,000 in pay and expenses last year for a band numbering 896 members. Ronald Kreutzer of the Fort McMurray First Nation was paid a similar amount as head of a reserve population of 272. One band paid more than $130,000 to each of 18 council members to oversee an on-reserve population of 6,187.

Bear in mind that these are tax free salaries... that $800,000 payout to Chief Ron Giesbrecht would be the net takeaway on a 1.4 million dollar cheque to a non-aboriginal taxpaying citizen.

All that misery you hear about on aboriginal territories... it sure doesn't seem to affect everyone equally. How is financial transparency & accountability a bad thing, Justin? Incidentally, how much of this money ends up in Liberal Party war chests? I'm guessing the Conservatives don't get a single penny.

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RELATED: Pander? Who me?

Preacher • 43 minutes ago

That's one way to look at it.

Another is that he's willing to represent all Canadians. Something that would be a refreshing change.

LewisDodgson • 25 minutes ago

Not sure how anyone could represent both the LGBT community AND those that would have them stoned if they could, but ok....

Journalism 101 - Exploiting Grief

Talk about burying the lede...

During a subsequent safety lap, Ward got out of his car and stood on the track, seemingly to confront Stewart about the collision — a move that’s not uncommon in local races.

What's newsworthy here is that running out onto an active racetrack in New York state is apparently a humdrum everyday occurance. Sort of like bullfighting... with speeding cars.

Oh yeah... every other article I've read says the deceased was 20 years old, but I guess making him a teenager somehow makes this more tragic. That and the fact that he "slept with a smile on his face."

Sorry, folks... despite the media furor labelling Tony Stewart a killer, this was a totally avoidable incident. Wake up and smell the manipulation.

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UPDATE: Finally... a voice of reason

“Is there a recorded radio interaction where he’s saying, ‘I’m gonna scare this kid’ or ‘I’m gonna do something’? That’s what you need,” lawyer Joe Tacopina told WFAN’s Marc Malusis and Sid Rosenberg on Monday. “Short of that, there’s no scenario where you’re going to be able to prove that he tried to scare this kid or hurt this kid or do anything.

“He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing: he’s driving a car in circles on a track, going fast.”

Over and out.

The Anti-Transparency Candidate

“Justin Trudeau announced that he will repeal the First Nations Financial Transparency Act and in doing so has chosen the side of those First Nation chiefs, like his star candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould, who would keep this basic financial information hidden from their communities and from Canadian taxpayers.”

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RELATED: They're with Justin

In a statement to the National Post Tuesday, Kwikwetlem authorities refused to make any comment related to the $8-million deal, maintaining that “the transaction remains subject to a non-disclosure agreement.”

Yup... no one needs to know about this... nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Especially the other 80 members of the band.

Guess the Feds ran out of...

...jackbooted thugs and black helicopters...

Erica Meekes, a spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, said the government will send reminder letters to bands that are not in compliance.

Will the victimisation never end?

RELATED: Bury My Wallet...

...on Parliament Hill.

The Humpty Chronicles

I have not been a big fan of the Canadian healthcare system, but there are daunting alternatives.

"My name is Steve. I'll be taking care of you tonight," he said menacingly. I just nodded and said, "OK," and sat up on the edge of the bed and put both feet on the floor in case I had to make a break for it. I wasn't sure if he was going to be "taking care of me" in the traditional "Russian mob" sense, or in the traditional "new fish in the cell-block" sense, but either way I didn't like the sound of it.

I have recently had occasion to experience, in-depth so to speak, the homegrown healthcare experience.

Let's just say I have come to appreciate some of the complexity involved in putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

Move along folks...

...nothing to see here...

"The total amount is more than the combined salaries of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama."

Of course, CTV has no problem with this guy consulting all 81 of his loyal subjects before taking any sort of a position here.

I'm sure they'd extend the same courtesy to Stephen Harper if he decided to pay himself a tax free $800,000 bonus.

RELATED: CBC piles on

Transparency Is Bad

Sorry, Mzzzsss... no truth to speculation...

...of an automatic grade bump for any pix of fathers/ brothers/ boyfriends... wearing your panties.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"It was announced today that President Roosevelt convinced the British government to return Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer, to the Third Reich in exchange for a US army private who previously deserted to the Wehrmacht by leaving his post."