-- TORONTO - "A shooting in the area of Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West Saturday afternoon left one man with serious injuries." --
NO GUN NO PROBLEM
-- "A man is in hospital after being stabbed in Etobicoke in the area of Lake Shore Boulevard West west of Kipling Avenue, around 10:45PM Saturday night." --
DIVERSITY, STRENGTH... YOU KNOW THE DRILL
-- Milad Rahimi, 34, who was fatally shot in a North Vancouver parking lot Friday had gang connections according to the North Vancouver RCMP. Police believe it was a targeted incident. --
Ohmigawd... you mean it wasn't a random bullet falling out of the sky?
-- BRITISH COLUMBIA - Allan Schoenborn, 54, who killed his three children 14 years ago and was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder has been granted eligibility for overnight, unescorted leave in the community for periods of up to 28 days." --
NO SHORTAGE OF CRAZIES IN THIS WORLD
-- LAS VEGAS - "Nika Nikoubin, 21, is accused of stabbing a man she met on a dating app on Saturday as revenge for the killing of an Iranian military leader." --
-- "President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that any attack against NATO could spark World War III. 'Granted, if we respond, it is World War III , but we have a sacred obligation.'" --
-- "WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls." --
-- "A Toronto man, Jahrelle Bishop, 24, has been arrested for a triple shooting in Schumacher that killed a Timmins man and seriously injured two others last year. Police reported the shooting was likely linked to the 'drug subculture' within Timmins." --
-- "Alec Baldwin filed legal papers Friday denying any responsibility for shooting dead Halyna Hutchins — even blaming the late cinematographer for giving him the directions that led to the deadly accident. The 63-year-old actor insisted that every single mistake leading to the Oct. 21 shooting on the New Mexico set of 'Rust' was 'performed by someone else.'” --
That's why it's called 'Martial Law' and not 'Ring Around the Rosies'...
-- "The identity and legal fate of nearly all of the arrested Freedom Convoy protesters remain shrouded in secrecy. The police force has refused repeated requests to release a list of names; to release a list of charges, or how many of each of the charges was laid over the course of the protest." --
Can you say 'Secret Police State?'
Remember, you get the government you deserve.
LET'S TALK 'RACIAL EQUITY' IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
The Marine Corps has now separated more than 1,000 Marines due to refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Navy comes in second with a total of 469 separations, which includes 50 this past week. The Air Force has separated 205 active-duty airmen, according to its weekly update. The Army has not yet separated a soldier."
-- "Statistics Canada tells us that death rates in 2020 did not differ dramatically from death rates in 2019, 2018 and prior years." -- "For Canadians not living in nursing homes, COVID is statistically less likely to cause harm or death than driving your car to work." --
-- "Canadian marketer Christian Borys helped develop the image - known as 'Saint Javelin' - which depicts the Virgin Mary cradling a US-made FGM-148 anti-tank weapon." --
WHATEVER WORKS
-- "Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 have become a sort of lumbering canary in the war’s coal mine, a sign of the astonishing resiliency of the Ukrainian defense forces and the larger problems that the Russians have encountered." --
-- "Ten thousand deadly 'bottled napalm' Molotov Cocktails are placed strategically on the rooftops of a key west Ukrainian city as it waits for Putin’s war machine to attack. In the city of Ivano Frankvisk, people know pre-made petrol bombs can quickly pass their 'throw by date'." --
-- "Actor Jussie Smollett loudly declared himself 'innocent' in a Chicago courtroom Thursday after he was sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police in a staged hate crime." --
I'M WITH DAVE CHAPPELLE
-- "Such a fucking outrageous story. He said they put a rope around his neck. Has anyone here ever been to Chicago? Yes! All right. All right, so you’ve been there. Now, tell me, how much rope do you remember seeing? Who the fuck is carrying rope? Like, when did you get mugged, nigga, in 1850? - Who’s got rope? – Who’s got rope? Man, that shit was awful." --
-- "Women around the world started to gloat upon hearing the news until Gabriel revealed they also conducted a study showing that 100% of women can be tricked by a talking snake." --
-- "One of the RCMP’s national security investigators who helped bring down the shocking 'TORONTO 18' terrorist plots in 2006 testified Wednesday in support of one of those convicted being granted a licence to practise law. The chorus of supporters for Saad Gaya at Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal also includes his former parole officer, university professors, several established lawyers, an imam prominent in extremist rehabilitation and Gaya’s wife, who is herself a lawyer." --
Remember, if you oppose this guy becoming a lawyer... you're a Nazi racist!
-- "Two New York State Senate Democrats, Sen. Rachel May of Syracuse and Sen. Robert Jackson of New York City have apologized for comparing climate change to the terrorist attacks of September 11." --
-- "Ontario has quietly revealed that the number of persons in the province whose death was caused by COVID-19 is much lower than the story the previous statistics told." --
"Between 10-20% of Ontario’s deaths (depending on the wave) are classified as 'deaths due to chronic or other pre-existing conditions.' The data also reveals around 10% of COVID deaths are in fact 'cause of death unknown or missing'"
And remember, this is only what they're admitting out loud. What's the real number?
"It's our job to rebuild that trust, to give people reasons to have faith in our institutions, to get involved in civic life. We can't let fear, anxiety, and envy overcome the hope the earnest optimism that is necessary for democracies to thrive."
-- "Reports have been coming in about a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in the south-eastern city of Mariupol - which has already suffered days of shelling." --
-- LONDON — "The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 10,000 feet (3,000 m) to the ocean floor more than a century ago has been found." --
-- "The documents show that cooperation would include efforts in the coming years, such as U.S. government scientists providing training for Wuhan lab scientists in 2018. A key selling point was such a partnership would mean 'pandemic preparedness' and 'enable rapid detection' of viruses to prevent outbreaks." --
-- "Prince Charles was accused of 'bailing out' Prince Andrew over reports he is giving his brother most of a $9 million (£7 million) loan for his Jeffrey Epstein settlement." --
-- "California state regulators conducted an investigation at a San Diego preschool and privately interviewed children as young as 2 without their parents’ consent about their masking practices." --
-- "He’s also curious as to why the incident has been kept quiet, with no news release from police, no media attention — indeed, he said some of his neighbours don’t even know what happened." --
-- "The White House had initially resisted, saying it wasn't in the U.S. 'strategic interest' to limit the world's energy supply and drive up gasoline prices." --
"Russia is the third-largest producer of oil in the world."
We left Toronto the week the Twin Towers fell... and we've never looked back...
-- "A man was rushed to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed multiple times in an apparently unprovoked attack near Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue, at around 8:10 pm Monday evening." --
THIS SHIT HAPPENS EVERY DAY
-- "Toronto police are searching for 38-year-old Jamol Patrick Wilson, who is wanted in connection with a string of alleged assaults on women over the past year." --
WE ARE ALL TORONTONIANS NOW
On Sunday just before 6 p.m., Hamilton Police were called to the area of Tisdale St. S. and Erie Ave. where they found a 39-year-old man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.
-- "The intelligence arm of the Ukrainian defence ministry said Russian Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, chief of staff of the 41st Army, had been killed outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, along with other senior officers. If confirmed, Gerasimov would be the second Russian General from the 41st Army to die within the week." --
-- "The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi announced the Ukrainian military shot down two Russian planes over Kyiv on Monday, March 7, at 8:30pm and 9:10pm." --
BUT WAIT... THERE'S MORE
-- "Russia has suffered 'heavy losses', including the deaths of two high ranking commanders, as Ukrainian forces recaptured a key city." --
-- "Canadians first became aware of the Library and Archives historical purge after a biography of Canada’s first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald disappeared from the federal government’s website. Soon after, the biographies of five other prime ministers were also scrubbed." --
-- "Toronto Police took 24-year-old Toronto resident Delan Lewis into custody at Finch Subway Station on Saturday at 6:48 p.m. following a string of alleged assaults that occurred between Oct. 16, 2021 and March 5. Lewis was in possession of a baton, bear spray and an airsoft pistol." --
And...
-- A 20-year-old man, Bassirou Niang, is charged with robbery, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and flight from a peace officer, after a taxi driver was assaulted and carjacked outside a motel in Vaughan on Sunday morning." --
IN OTHER 'BOYZ IN THE HOOD' NEWZ
-- UPDATE HOMICIDE #4/2022 -- "It appears as if gun-toting triggermen from Mississauga and Brampton brought their beef to a Long Branch business when gunfire broke out killing two men and injuring a woman." --
-- "Stop reacting and start leading. We need to stop taking any Russian oil. The idea that we would give our money to an enemy is unthinkable, and it's absolute lunacy." --
-- In 2008, Russian newspaper the Moskovsky Korrespondent ran a story reporting that Putin had divorced his wife and was set to marry Kabaeva. The story was denied by the Kremlin and the newspaper was shut down." --
OVD-Info reported Wednesday that Russian authorities arrested 8,100 people at anti-war protests since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The number shot up to more than 13,000 people detained as of Sunday afternoon."
-- "A study featured in the New York Times once again reprises the assertion that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a Wuhan market, not a lab. Case closed then, right?" --
-- "'We've talked about it in in the news, not just about Ukraine, but about democracies around the world that we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies,' Trudeau continued while speaking to the Ukrainian community at an Etobicoke church." --
-- TORONTO - "As of Feb. 27, shootings were up 47.7% compared to this time last year, the number of people injured is up 70.6%, the number of people fatally shot is up by 33.3% and the total number of people injured and killed by gunfire is up 57.7%." --
-- "A young Ukrainian woman, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, was shot and killed while she was on her way back from delivering food to a dog shelter just outside Kyiv. The shelter she had been delivering to had gone three days without food." --
"She was one of three volunteers delivering the food to Bucha. All three were killed." --
-- "Russian pilots were filmed pleading they were 'following orders' as they were captured after nine aircraft were shot down in one day over Ukraine." --
-- "A group of Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters were convicted on federal charges after attempting to frame the Proud Boys for a series of vandalism and arson attacks." --
-- "There were no winners, but there may have been one overarching loser: democracy. 'The lack of trust in police and government at all levels is concerning,' says Daniel Stockemer, professor at uOttawa’s school of political studies." --
-- "Russia blocked access to Facebook on Friday and threatened to punish anyone spreading 'false information' about its armed forces with as much as 15 years in prison, clamping down on free speech more aggressively than at any other point in President Vladimir V. Putin’s 22 years in power." --
-- BRUSSELS — NATO foreign ministers rejected any possibility of intervening against Russian forces in Ukraine, whether on the ground or in the air, the alliance’s secretary general said Friday." --
GOTTA HAVE PRIORITIES
"AMERICA: Inflation is screwing us, our border is lawless, and there’s a ground war in Europe.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier.
IF THEY'LL DO IT TO EACH OTHER
-- "A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 56 people, police and hospital officials said." --
-- "Two independent Russian news outlets that refused to spout the Kremlin's talking points following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were forced off the air this week, forcing citizens to rely on state-run media that won’t even use the term 'war' to describe the ongoing attack." --
SPINNING IS SPINNING
-- “As long as we’re buying Russian oil, though, aren’t we financing the war?” Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked Psaki." --
"Three floors of a five-story building located on the property continue to burn, officials said, as Russian military prohibits firefighters from responding."
-- "As Canada’s finance intelligence expert admits that Freedom Convoy donors posed no threat, we ask, what’s the real reason they were cut off from financial services?" --
-- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that by using the Emergencies Act to suppress protests, he was actually doing what is 'necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free.'" --
-- "No one was expecting to have kids beaten at 4 o'clock in the morning, no one was expecting people to be kidnapped or killed. It was just unfolding," explains Evgeny Afineevsky, director of the film Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom which documents the 93 day uprising that led to the downfall of president Viktor Yanukovych." --
RUSSIA TO ADOPT CANADIAN STRATEGY?
-- "A European Union official told Reuters Thursday that it is seeing signs on social media that Russia could impose martial law within its borders as the invasion of Ukraine continues." --
TORONTO -- "Mohamed Ahmed, 22, pleaded guilty to charges including aggravated assault, reckless discharge of a firearm and possession of a loaded firearm. Two charges of attempted murder were dropped by the Crown." --
But, wait... there's more...
Toronto police say dozens of charges have been laid against three suspects after pills, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition were allegedly found inside a vehicle downtown over the weekend.
-- LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - "Over 7,000 Russian servicemen have been killed since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while hundreds have been taken prisoner including senior officers." --
AND HERE'S WHAT MAD VLAD GETS FOR ALL THAT
-- "Russian troops seized the strategically important city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said, in a significant moment in the battle for the country’s south." --
Russia's first and only victory in this war so far.
-- "Take a look at what's going on in Canada. They froze the assets of all those people who contributed to the truckers who were trying to protest. What are doing? They froze the assets. They froze people's assets." --
JUSTIN SAVES CANADA
-- "Tamara Lich, who was denied bail last week, appeared in court wearing shackles around her feet, which made it difficult for her to move." --
-- Incredible photos show smouldering Russian convoy blitzed to ashes by Ukrainian resistance as Putin’s Kyiv siege stalls. Eerie pictures from the town of Bucha - just 20 miles from the capital - revealed the mangled wreckage of Russian tanks and military equipment after one of the most brutal firefights of the war so far." --
MAYBE NATO SHOULD PACK ITS BAGS & GO HOME
-- "Ex-soldier claims he was told to 'man the fuck up' after complaining he was cold." --
-- "Ottawa Police are asking the public to help them identify two suspects after a victim was allegedly sprayed with a 'chemical irritant' then stabbed in the back on St. Laurent Boulevard." --
-- "The group of suspects accused of shooting radical Black Lives Matter leader Sasha Johnson in the head last year at a party in London have had their charges dropped after witnesses have refused to cooperate with the police investigation." --
-- "This is the first major war in which commercially available satellite imagery has played a significant role in providing open source information about troop movements, military buildups in neighboring countries, flows of refugees, and more." --
-- "'Ukraine has become the front line in a struggle, not just between democracies and autocracies but in a struggle for maintaining a rules-based system in which the things that countries want are not taken by force,' Hill said. 'Every country in the world should be paying close attention to this.'" --
-- "A 22-year-old man has died after being shot multiple times at Morningside Avenue near Kingston Road in Scarborough Monday evening around 5:10pm. The shooting took place near a busy intersection in broad daylight." --
UPDATE: THE USUAL, WELL... YOU KNOW
-- "Police say Jasiah Mekhie Steve Edwards, 18, of Toronto, and 31-year-old Toronto resident Jalesha Edwards, have each been charged with second-degree murder." --
-- "On Sunday, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was photographed with a red and black scarf that appears to represent the Bandera movement, a far-right Ukrainian Nationalist movement linked to Neo-Nazis. After deleting, Freeland reposted the same message on Twitter, but with a new picture where the scarf was removed." --
