Illegal to use race based statistics?

Unless your thesis is that the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force is actually a racist death squad.

A report commissioned by the African Canadian Legal Clinic that claims a black person is 37 times more likely to be shot and killed by police in Toronto was condemned by the head of the city's police union yesterday.

So what is the stated disparity here?

The report states that one black person per 38,700 was shot and killed by police in Toronto.

For whites, the number was one in 1.4 million people.

The Globe and Mail wants a piece of this.

Black people make up 27 per cent of provincial deaths from police use of force and 34 per cent of fatal police shootings, despite representing just 3.6 per cent of the population.

Let's examine the circumstances under which these people met their maker. Oops, no can do... that information is strangely absent.

Now, I'm no mathematician, but it's possible there may be another explanation here. You could go with the Police Death Squad theory, as per the African Canadian Legal Clinic, or maybe, just maybe... within the black community in Toronto, an individual is statistically 37 times more likely to present a weapon, or attempt to use deadly force on a police officer than his white counterpart.

Shsssssshhhh.

UPDATE: Let's check with Toronto Crimestoppers.

Holy crap... they're part of the racist conspiracy too!

Technorati Tags: Death Squad, politically correct, Toronto

APPARENTLY THE MEDIA'S WORKING THEORY IS THAT...

...THE COPS ARE PICKING OFF SAMMY'S HOMIES... ONE BY ONE...

" -- "'He was my baby. I know this will turn out like Sammy Yatim," the mother told VICE, making note that Alex was a good friend of police shooting victim Sammy Yatim, who was killed on a Toronto streetcar back in 2013." --

Listening to the family... and apparently that's where 99% of the current media narrative originates... it seems that Alex Wetlaufer was a model citizen...

-- "Since graduating high school, Alex had focused on working out, had recently completed the army’s required aptitude tests and was 'just waiting for the call', [brother] Michael said, adding that his brother was in peak physical condition.

Well, that certainly sounds impressive... working out for 3 years to realise a career ambition... inspired by your dead father, no less.

I'm pretty sure that most wannabe soldiers just show up and enlist, but what the heck. According to his brother, Alex was a focused, determined tough-minded individual. We're talking Luke Skywalker material here. Still, it's a little hard to fathom why this young man had been sitting around in Toronto's too often squalid Community Housing, waiting years to "get his soldier on."

When you cut to Alex's mother, she, not surprisingly, paints a somewhat different picture...

-- "'Wendy Wettlaufer, Alex’s mother, told CP24 that someone from the family was on the phone with him moments before he was shot. 'He was crying, saying that he’s being surrounded.'" --

Wait a minute... you're on the run from an 'armed to the teeth' SWAT Team... (why run and make yourself a target if you're an innocent bystander?) and then you stop and make a hysterical phone call to your mom... AND THEN she hears you being murdered? That sounds like the plot of a really bad movie.

RELATED:  Ask yet another family member

She wasn't there, she didn't see, but hells bells, let's go with that anyway...

-- "The sister of the 21-year-old man shot and killed by police officers in North York says she believes he was unarmed at the time of the incident." --

She 'believes' he was unarmed? Sweet Baby Jebus. Is this what they teach in J-School, or is it yet another example of CBC's "just phone it in" activism?

Perhaps, instead of career military, Alex Wetlaufer would have been more suited to social work... you know, play to your experience...

The family (Alex was one of ten children) has lived in the Toronto Community Housing neighbourhood for more than 30 years.

Of course, if Justin has his way, our military will all be turned into unarmed social justice advocates anyway.

LAST WORD: If the shoot was a mistake, it was a big one...

Three separate SWAT trained officers apparently felt Alex Wetlaufer was threatening their lives...

The civilian agency released new information Wednesday, confirming that three officers discharged their firearms during the incident, though it’s not clear how many times Wettlaufer was shot or which of the officers’ bullets hit him.

Unfortunately, unlike Alex's family, the officers are not permitted to speak about the incident...

The civilian watchdog says it cannot reveal whether Wettlaufer was armed because the investigation is ongoing. The vital piece of information may not be provided until the probe is completed, a process that typically takes several months, or up to a year.

UPDATE:  Here's a crazy thought... let's talk to somebody who isn't related to the deceased...

-- "Sources have told CP24 that the man was armed with a handgun when he was shot. He was rushed to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead." --

UPDATE2:  The other side of the story

-- "Toronto police officers from the force’s tactical unit negotiated with Alex Wettlaufer for at least 15 minutes before firing their weapons, killing the young man who a police source says was armed with either a real or replica gun.

And it appears as though he may not have been eligible to enlist in the military after all...

Court documents show Wettlaufer was facing three criminal charges at the time of his death, dating back to an October 2014 incident. Alongside three other accused, Wettlaufer faced one of robbery for allegedly stealing a cellphone and one count of assault causing bodily harm, for allegedly attacking two people.

Wettlaufer alone was charged with the unauthorized possession of a knife that opens through the use of centrifugal force — a weapon that requires a licence.

All of the charges against Wettlaufer were before the court at the time of his death." --

.Wonder how the family feels about being manipulated by the media now?

UPDATE3:  Hammer Time

Loku said to the officers: “What you gonna do, come on, shoot me.”

Sew... reap... case closed.

UPDATE4:  The Usual Dumbsticks

The cancer runs deep

Like most countries in the Middle East, Iraq just doesn't get democracy. --- Despite ousting Saddam, there seems to be this irresistable urge by anyone in any sort of position of authority, to put a jackbooted foot on somebody's, or maybe just anybody's, neck.

Radical surgery on the body-politic seems to be the only solution.

More than 1,000 UK troops have stormed the headquarters of an Iraqi police unit to rescue 127 prisoners, dozens of whom they had feared would be killed.

The British said the unit was suspected of murder and the rescued prisoners appeared to have been tortured.

Incredibly, the Serious Crimes Unit, set up to investigate major incidents against civilians had instead made itself over as a Death Squad.

The operation showed how closely aligned some police units are with militias and death squads — and the challenges coalition forces face as they transfer authority for security to Iraqis.

It's sad to say, but at this point in time Iraqi society is still so insular, savage and unashamedly tribal that Iraqis can't be trusted to police their own streets.

That's why it's so important to stay the course in Iraq. Without radical surgery, this patient is definitely terminal.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, death squad, religion of peace

Crack CTV reporting...

...reveals not-so-secret police death squad... in Aylmer, Ontario, correction, Quebec...

Robert LeClair told CTV Ottawa that it was his brother David who was shot by police Saturday morning. LeClair said police showed up at his brother's door, allegedly to investigate a complaint filed by David's girlfriend. "He said, 'You're under arrest now.' He took out his pepper spray, sprayed, and then took out his black stick, hitting him with it in the house," said LeClair.

LeClair said the officer then led David outside and told him to lie on the ground. When David refused, the officer took out his gun and threatened to shoot him.

When David still refused, LeClair said the officer shot his brother three times in the side.

Another family member places the shooting back inside the house.

"My brother-in-law was on the floor, shot three times. The cop was still there, he had the gun in his holster but his hand was on it, he didn't want to let it go," said Robert Pombert, the alleged victim's brother-in-law.

Yeah... I bet that's exactly how it happened... both times.

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UPDATE: The story just keeps getting better

Apparently, the cop who murdered sonny... also clubbed 73 year-old mom... who was, strangely enough, looking pretty hearty and unbruised during her subsequent tv interviews.

Mrs. Leclair, 73, said police had searched the home in the past -- although she referred to it as "harassment."

At least two officers "USUALLY SHOWED UP AT THE HOUSE" to calm Mr. Leclair down and defuse the situation if necessary, his family said.

Mr. LeClair was, as they say... "known to police."

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UPDATE2: It just continues to get better & better

Apparently Officer Mad Max wasn't content to just club Mom...

“He put a gun to her head and said you’re going to get it next. He was screaming at the top of his lungs,” said Robert LeClair.

I guess Mommy Dearest was just too traumatized to mention that herself... in the CTV interview last night.

Good thing the media mentioned David LeClair was a roofer... I was beginning to think this guy was a Buddhist monk.

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WELCOME, YET AGAIN, READERS OF CANADIAN CYNIC

So what kind of dumbstick actually falls for an over the top media feeding frenzy like we have here?

Hey, CC... how you doing with those monsters under your bed?

That's what's really hilarious.

BOO!

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UPDATE3: The Ottawa Citizen is now reporting...

Mr. LeClair's sister-in-law apparently snapped pictures of him as he lay there dying.

Two questions come to mind.

How many people actually live in this house... and what kind of freak... instead of summoning help, or offering first-aid... takes pictures of a family member who is lying on the ground bleeding to death?

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LAST WORD: Family now blaming cops...

...for not having tasers...

David LeClair would be alive today if the Gatineau cop who shot him had a stun gun, the victim's sister-in-law charged yesterday.

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The Leftosphere should be happy

At least he didn't get tasered...

A burglar rummaging through a west end pharmacy was shot dead today after he fought with the police officer who stumbled across the break-in.

The shooting happened just before 4 am at Solarski's Pharmacy on Garden and Roncesvalles Aves.

In another account of the shooting... the "Red Star" stops just shy of using the words "Police Death Squad."

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UPDATE: Looks like I spoke too soon...

The Globe and Mail IS talking about death squads...

Elmo Harris from Niagara, Canada writes: "More murder and mayhem by our police. Police weapons need to be substantially reduced in power to about 32 calibre. There have been far too many deaths caused by the police lately.

Even more disturbing are the curious circumstances surrounding those deaths. This cop is by himself, he hears an alarm going and a window broken and he doesn't radio it in? Come on!"

See, Elmo... I was thinkin' the headline should have actually been... "Violent junkie burglar killed... neighbours breathe sigh of relief."

I guess that doesn't work for you, huh?

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Once again, the Toronto "Red" Star...

...attempts to mythologise a dangerous sociopath...

"Michael Eligon Jr. remains mostly a man of mystery several days after he was fatally shot in a confrontation with police while wearing a hospital gown on an east-end street, blocks from the hospital."

The implication here is that, somehow... this poor guy was taken down by a police death squad... but even the rainbows & unicorns journos at the Star have to include a few facts.

"After leaving the hospital, the 5-foot-11, 160-pound man is believed to have injured someone (the Globe & Mail has a witness saying Eligon stabbed a shopper and injured a police officer) inside a nearby convenience store before trying to hijack a car."

"Shortly after, neighbours on nearby Milverton Blvd. reported that a man in a hospital gown was trying to break into a house at the back door."

I'm not sure what the Star finds so mysterious... we're talkin' straightforward cause & effect here.

If ever there was such a thing as "a good shoot"... this was it...

"Eligon was carrying two pairs of scissors, according to witnesses, and kept walking toward the officers with his hands outstretched despite being ordered to stop as police backed up."

Professional journalists... your moral & intellectual superiors.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY:

Police have charged two Toronto men in connection with a shooting Thursday afternoon in a west-end neighborhood. The shooting happened after a fight broke out between two people near 75 Tandridge Cres.

Police arrested three men leaving the scene, and seized two loaded firearms. Two of the men face 35 charges, while the third has been released.

Abdullah Abdullahi, 24, and Mohamud Duale, 20, face several charges.

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THANK YOU, COMMENT MODERATION:

"More fascist whining here I see."
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 10:39 AM, February 08, 2012

Oh, nonny... you do all the work for me.

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LAST WORD: Ask a Justice Minister

OTTAWA - There's no appetite in Canada for vigilante justice but the occasional warning shot over the head of a thief or trespasser may have its time and place, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson agreed Tuesday.

Never a Long Gun Registry around...

...when you really need one...

The hunt is on for two men, one of whom is believed to be armed and dangerous, after a shooting late Tuesday in the city's west end.

A 28-year-old man was walking in the area of Swansea Mews — a townhouse complex on the southwestern edge of High Park — around 10:45 p.m, Toronto Police said Wednesday.

Two men approached him, police said, and one pulled out a gun and opened fire.

No word yet, from Mayor Miller's office... on which gun club the shooter belonged to.

Hang on a sec... Swansea Mews... that sounds so familiar...

"A townhouse complex called Swansea Mews, in other words Toronto Housing."

Oh right... that's the taxpayer-subsidised gun club.

And, hells bells... if they can run Metropolitan Toronto according to EU dictates... what's up with France?

The ultimatum from Brussels, in a letter to the French government from the European commission, upped the ante in the ferocious row over France's treatment of immigrant Gypsies, a dispute that hijacked a recent EU summit and saw insults traded over the second world war.

"France is not applying European law as it should," said Viviane Reding, the commissioner for justice and fundamental rights who sparked one of the worst rows in the EU for years this month.

And we'll be seeing the white flags in three... two... one...

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RELATED: In other "Police Death Squad" news

The CBC spins yet another sad tale...

The victim was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital but died of his injuries. He was later identified by his friend Antonius Clarke as 26-year-old Eric Osawe. Osawe had spent some time in jail after high school, but was trying to clean up his act.

Geez... from the sounds of things... he wasn't trying all that hard...

Court records show Osawe was convicted of assault in 2004, for which he was given a suspended sentence and one-year probation. Last September, he was convicted of possession of a controlled substance and possession of stolen property. He spent a short time in jail and again, was given one-year probation.

Another man was seen being led from the building in handcuffs after the shooting. Police later identified the man as Ebony Osawe, 23 — Eric's younger brother. Ebony Osawe has been charged with possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition.

I gotta say, if that's "cleaning up your act"... I'd sure hate to see these two when they're out on a tear.

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UPDATE: Cop now facing charges

A Toronto cop is now charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a 26-year-old man during a raid in Etobicoke two months ago.

Const. David Cavanagh faces a manslaughter charge and is expected to appear in a College Park courtroom on Jan. 6, 2011.

Speaking of a police state

Three Canadian men of Middle Eastern origin who say they were imprisoned and tortured in Syria are demanding an independent inquiry into their allegations.

The three — Muayyed Nurreddin, Abdullah Almaiki and Ahmed El Maati — told a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday that the federal government must follow the recommendations of Justice Dennis O'Connor, who investigated the case of Maher Arar.

This wouldn't suddenly have anything to do with Maher Arar and his multi-million dollar lawsuit would it?

Even though he is now free and back home in Canada, Almaiki said, his family lives in constant fear that he might be re-arrested or kidnapped.

Of course he's afraid... this is Canada, the land of brutal dictatorship, secret police and roaming death squads.

Technorati Tags: dictatorship, secret police, death squad

So, not a Police Death Squad after all

But, but, but... mummy swore up and down they tossed her baby off the balcony...

The family of a woman who fell to her death following an interaction with police will not speak with SIU investigators.

What changed? Let's ask Charles Darwin...

The newspaper, citing unspecified sources, said that Korchinski-Paquet had barricaded herself on her High Park balcony by using a large appliance to block the door and ultimately fell to her death.

She apparently “fell while trying unsuccessfully to vault to a neighbouring balcony.”

Whatever Canadian values...

...used to be... this isn't it...

Sources say the GTA towing industry has attracted some hard-core established organized groups, including bikers with Hells Angels ties in the east end, and as newly-arrived immigrant groups in the west.

So says the commie-pinko Toronto Star.

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IN OTHER POLICE DEATH SQUAD NEWS:

Obviously all Canadians are racist...

A separate video of a group of people who are apparently family members of the man appeared online Sunday morning.

“They shot him in the back five times.”

Sure they did. Let's hear you say that under oath.

But wait... it gets better...

"Even though his uncle was holding a knife, Hashim said the police's decision to shoot him does not make sense."

Sorry, bruh... "refusing to drop a weapon"...knife, gun, hammer... is literally the gold standard definition of when you can light some crazy fucker up.

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

"In a statement, the Muslim Council of Peel said a disproportionate number of racialized people including Black, Indigenous and Muslim individuals are victims of police shootings in Canada and Peel Region."

Maybe the Muslim Council could weigh in on this one, too?

Ooh, ooh... I know this one!

Don't let mentally ill people with knives prank the local constabulary...

"Family searching for answers after man with mental health issues fatally shot by police in Brampton." Police responded to a call about a domestic disturbance –
a call D’Andre’s family said he placed himself.

Not sure what the confusion is here. Let's ask sis...

"He had a weapon in his hand, a knife in his hand."

Campbell's aunt, who did not want to be identified, called the 26 year-old "a fun-loving guy."

Yeah... a fun-loving guy with a shank.

Call the tune... pay the piper.

UPDATE: Smell the "investigative" journalism

Toronto Star article seems to imply some sort of Police Death Squad...

“He was a bright young kid,” one-time best friend Anthony Powell remembers, "I know he didn’t deserve this.”

What... as opposed to all the other people who do deserve it?

Staff Reporter Jacob Lorinc seems to have skipped over the fact that D'Andre, (who at 26, was in no way, shape or form "a kid,") was armed with a knife when officers arrived on scene.

I'm a little surprised Mr Lorinc didn't interview D'Andre's kindergarden teacher.

"Live and DON'T learn"

And die...

“Our soldiers are trained to take all appropriate steps to minimize civilian casualties. However, they must take action to protect themselves when they believe they are being threatened.”

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RELATED: He was "gentle", he was "fit"

Well then, we're obviously dealing with an unrepentant police "death squad", huh?

The family of a "gentle" Brampton man who died hours after being Tasered by Peel police are demanding answers.

Sean Reilly, 42, died Tuesday less than 12 hours after being shot with a stun gun during a struggle in a cell at a Peel Regional Police station. He had been arrested earlier "without incident" at a Mississauga home on a charge of assault with a weapon.

Yesterday, Reilly's family released a statement through their lawyer, Ian Smith, describing him as a non-violent man who was well-liked by all who knew him.

Well, you know... "everybody"... except the person who was assaulted and called 911.

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In other "Police Death Squad" news

In the meantime, using the McDougall death as another soapbox for aboriginal leaders to make blanket statements about how cops are running around shooting native people for no reason is not only irresponsible and preposterous, it hurts their own cause.

Because every time they make these false claims, they lose credibility with the public.

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Post-National Broadcaster can't resist...

...a good "Police Death Squad" headline... but what actually happened here?

At a news conference on Saturday, Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth said officers responded to a gun call on Adsum Drive near Pipeline Road around 4 a.m.

A resident putting out his garbage was confronted by two armed males who tried to rob him. The man was assaulted but was able to run away and call 911.

Let's retitle this one... "Good Shoot, Good Riddance."

Of course, it was always thus...

One witness said THE VICTIM HAD A KNIFE on board the bus.

The victim? THE VICTIM!!!?

In other "Just Desserts" news... Rock, Paper, Scissors... Gun... I win!

"According to Le Parisien, the 25-year-old had refugee status in France, but that was due to expire on the 26th of April. He had first attempted to claim asylum in Austria in 2018 but was rejected."

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LAST WORD: Hey CBC... here's something you can investigate...

It seems David Suzuki has expensive tastes for someone who wants to shut down the carbon economy within a generation. His primary residence is valued at around $8,200,000.00.

Silence of the BLMs

Toronto Homicide Squad calls off roundup of local farmers, hunters and sport shooters...

Winston Poyser, 24, and Shakiyl Shaw, 23, both of Toronto, were arrested on Thursday following the execution of search warrants within the City of Toronto. Poyser and Shaw are both charged with first-degree murder in Hagley’s death.

Police say that Lenneil Shaw, 23, and Mohamed Ali Nur, 18, are also being sought for first-degree murder in connection with Hagley’s death.

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UPDATE: The usual suspects

Two suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy at a Weston Road pizza place this past fall have surrendered to police. The suspects turned themselves in sometime on Friday, less than one day after police issued a Canada-wide warrant for their arrests in connection with the murder of Jarryl Hagley.

Black Lives Matters Toronto was apparently unavailable for comment.

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RELATED: The hoodz a'hoppin' this week

Toronto police are investigating after shots were fired into a North York home on George Henry Boulevard, near Sheppard Avenue and Don Mills Road early on Friday morning.

There were people in the home at the time, but no one was hurt. Police found at least eight shell casings outside the home.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"No left of center political party or interest gives a damn about the true root cause of this slaughter : the toxic suicidal gangster/drug/nihilist culture that has been fed into the black community by the culture industry."

No argument here.

Police death squad targets seniors?

Shouldn't the headline actually read... "Professional journalist attends meticulously-scripted homage to knife-wielding mental patient?"So... seriously... what's the deal here?

You're the owner's idiot nephew... and they saved the headline job just for you?
Vex? Vex? Forsooth, I fear a touch.

I don't get it.

As the philosopher Winston C. once said...

Democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the others.[*]

"Agency asks web to name its ship, realizes it may now be the owner of the $377M ‘Boaty McBoatface’."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I prefer Churchills 'The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter'."

"Today the conversation needs less than 140 characters."

Damn... you got me.

Another one bites the dust

Just like all the recent hysteria over Taser related deaths... it turns out the supposed rising tide of hate crimes in North America... is a myth.

Less than 10,000 total hate crimes of any kind in an entire year, in a country of over 300 million people? Only 7,330 known hate crime offenders?

That means that hate crimes are a drop in the bucket. They are the least of our problems.

The two-thousandths of one percent (.002%) of Americans who committed hate crimes against anyone in 2006, including Protestants (35 complete losers) clearly need help.

While we're playing around with numbers I have one final factoid for the Taser Death Squad Hysterical Society.

There have been 16 taser related deaths in Canada over the last four years.

That works out to 4 instances per year... which, my paranoid friends, is statistically insignificant.

In 2002 alone, twenty-nine Canadians were killed in avalanches.

I'm betting more than 4 Canadians per year, manage to run over and kill themselves with their own cars... and nobody's setting up a public enquiry into that totally predictable and avoidable stupidity.

You're being taken for a ride, folks... which sells a shitload of newspapers and commercial airtime.

Think about it.

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UPDATE: The RCMP speaks up

Many comments we have received seem to suggest that the use of a TASER is never justified based on the likelihood of inflicting serious injury or death.

In fact, our experience and that of other police services over the course of many years and thousands of incidents, as well as existing research, have shown that deploying a TASER is often the fastest and safest way to gain control of an individual.

We and other police services teach our officers that it is less likely to cause serious injury than other tactics.

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LAST WORD: A very special welcome...

To readers of noted humanitarian and progressive brown-noser "Canadian Cynic"

Little CC is the piece of dreck who told Wanda Watkins... the mother of a slain Canadian soldier... to "fuck off." Now he tries to wipe some of that shit off on yours truly.

Just another disgusting performance.

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Note to Canadian Cesspool... back to tasers yet again, huh?.

Are you sure you're feeling okay?

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Because he's all about the women...

Neo, since there is obviously no hope of reasoned discussion with a fuckwad like you, congratulations for demonstrating what a fucking wanker you are. Now you and your posse go out there and beat up some teenage girls so that you can feel like real men.

Hey... I recognise that lilting prose.

Technorati Tags: hate crimes, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski

"Live by the sword..."

"...don't be too surprised... somebody skewers your brisket..."

-- TORONTO -- A shooting investigation has turned into a homicide probe after a man shot while waiting at a bus stop in the city's west end died, police announced this afternoon.

Omar Waite, 29, was shot at a TTC bus stop on the southwest corner of Jane St. and Eglinton Ave. W. around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Seems's Toronto's celebrated street thugs are pretty well versed in the concept of "bad karma"...

His shooting came almost exactly 24 hours after the shooting death of Daniel Lewis, 19, who was killed in a laneway near Keele St. and Rogers Rd.

Lewis was a member of the Five Point Generals, while Waite was a member of a rival gang, the Gators, a police officer told the Sun.

And stand by, folks... this is where CC and company usually jump in to celebrate the lost potential of young Daniel & Omar et al.

P.S. -- No word yet from Mayor Miller's office... on which gun club these two fine young men belonged to.

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RELATED: Starting justice for Jane Creba...

-- TORONTO -- A 21-year-old Toronto man convicted of murder in the shooting death of teenager Jane Creba on Boxing Day more than three years ago will be sentenced as an adult, a judge ruled today.

Until now known only as JSR, a publication ban on the name has been lifted and he has now been identified as Jorrell Simpson-Rowe.

Mr. Simpson-Rowe was 17 at the time of the notorious gun battle that killed Ms. Creba and wounded six others.

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LAST WORD: In other "just desserts" news...

A second arrest has been made in the afternoon drive-by shooting of a young man near his Rexdale home, police announced today.

Jose Hierro-Saez, 19, was a passenger in a car that was riddled with bullets from another vehicle as it travelled along John Garland Blvd., near Albion Rd. and Kipling Ave., in June 2007.

Anthony Grant, 21, and Devon Vivian, 20, thought to have fled to Jamaica, were identified as suspects.

Grant, suspected of driving the car used in the shooting, was picked up by the Royal Jamaican Constabulary Fugitive Squad nearly three months after the fact. He was charged with first-degree murder and brought back to Toronto.

Last Friday, Vivian was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica on a charge of first-degree murder and four counts of attempt murder while armed with a firearm, Toronto Police announced today.

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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.