Canada isn’t the United States. Because of how the laws work up that way, they can enact gun bans, something that really isn’t likely to hold up down this way.
Yet there are those who will continue to try and do just that.
Link to Star Article – ‘A bloody record:’ The dark history of the gun model used in the Innisfil shooting
This is fun! – ‘A bloody record:’ The dark history of Kumquats
OTTAWA – Internal documents show the RCMP refused to release the badge numbers of officers who cleared “Freedom Convoy” protesters from the Ambassador Bridge last winter, citing a risk of violence from their supporters.
The situation was detailed in a briefing note and threat assessment prepared for RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, who was asked to approve the decision because the force recognized it raised questions around transparency.
RCMP sent Freedom Convoy blacklist to lobbyists
Records show an RCMP blacklist of bank account holders identified as part of the Freedom Convoy movement was sent by email to lobbyists, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
… The records show the RCMP distributed names, birth dates, phone numbers and more by unencrypted email and neither police nor Cabinet ensured the blacklist was accurate or confidential.
Kamahl Santamaria, a veteran television journalist, was just 32 days into his job at New Zealand’s top broadcaster TVNZ when he resigned.
Surprise gave way to shock as allegations about his inappropriate behaviour in the newsroom surfaced. Soon Mr Santamaria’s former colleagues at Al Jazeera, where he had worked for 16 years, began speaking out.
A BBC investigation – drawing on interviews with several current and former employees at Al Jazeera, and documentary evidence of inappropriate messages and staff complaints – has found several allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Santamaria in the broadcaster’s Doha newsroom. Some say he wasn’t the only one.
I fear for Avi Lewis!
Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the Canadian federal government’s legalization and regulation of cannabis for adults of legal age.
It was back on Oct. 17, 2018, when the production, distribution, sale, import and export, and possession of cannabis became legal in this country, a first for a G7 nation. A year later, cannabis edible products and concentrates became legal for sale as well.
I wonder if their estimates of the size of the illicit market are optimistic.
An aide to Vladimir Putin has said freeing WNBA star Brittney Griner from prison ‘is not a priority’ for the Kremlin.
The 31-year-old, a two-time Olympic basketball gold medalist, was arrested in February after she was allegedly caught carrying two vape cartridges containing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport by a police dog.
She was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on August 4 after pleading guilty.
The whole world treats Biden like an ass.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has named the 71 critics and associate critics he’s tasked with holding the Liberal government to account, and his choices say a lot about the Conservatives’ strategy for the House of Commons, experts say.
It’s a long list. Poilievre has 51 critics, plus another 20 associate critics, squaring off against just 38 cabinet ministers.
Governments sometimes get accused of appointing bloated cabinets — and Poilievre could be inviting the same sort of criticism, said Conservative strategist Tim Powers.
Sounds like he’s giving a wide selection of his people a chance to rise to the occasion. Makes sense to see who makes the A-team.
As the cost of living rises in Canada, many are struggling to afford housing, transportation, gas and even food. But data shows that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the costs of everyday products and services in Canada have been some of the most expensive in the world.
Here’s where Canadians end up paying more than other countries, and why…
Russian soldiers have shot dead a Ukrainian musician in his home after he refused to take part in a concert in occupied Kherson, according to the culture ministry in Kyiv.
Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko declined to take part in a concert “intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson”, the ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page.
The concert on 1 October was intended to feature the Gileya chamber orchestra, of which Kerpatenko was the principal conductor, but he “categorically refused to cooperate with the occupants”, the statement said.
In a seeming attempt by mainstream media to contextualize the bombshell admission, the so-called ‘fact-checkers’ have confirmed that Pfizer never provided evidence that the jabs would stop transmission, but claim that the framing of this revelation is ‘missing context.’
It’s all about far-right ‘fascists’ while actual communists escape pejorative
Italy is about to have its first female leader and the American left is furious. Giorgia Meloni grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rome and was raised by a single mother, after her father, a communist, fled to the Canary Islands and was later convicted of drug trafficking in Mallorca. She wrote in her autobiography that her mother planned to have an abortion when she was pregnant with her but changed her mind at the last minute. Meloni worked as a nanny, a waitress, and a bartender before getting into politics, but she’s no AOC.
U.S. President Joe Biden is known for making confusing and sometimes wild pronouncements that his administration is known for frequently walking back. This might have been the case when he randomly decided to tell an audience of well-heeled Democrats at a fundraiser that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “not joking” about using nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon,” he added, “since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Biden has since refused to clarify his remarks or explain on what he was basing them. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby took to the Sunday shows to clarify that the president was not saying an attack was imminent and this his “comments were not based on new or fresh intelligence or new indications that Mr. Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons.”
Julio Loace was 24 when, in the summer of 1962, soldiers from Havana turned up at his sleepy rural village to say he and his family had to leave the plot of land where they reared cows and planted black beans. A house would be built for them, he was told, beyond a new perimeter.
Soon after, lorries hauling ominous objects as long as trees drove through his village under cover of darkness. The ground trembled under their weight.
“They were huge,” Loace, now 86, said from a rocking chair while chickens pecked outside his house. “Nobody had ever seen equipment so big.”
It’s time for the West to match the bravery of the protesters, and stop accommodating their executioners
The Iranian regime and its henchmen will stop at nothing to crush the Hair Revolt.
These doddering mullahs capable of beating to death a woman who wears the veil askew, these turbaned police whose souls are as naked as the terror that a woman’s face inspires in them, these serial killers who never let a day pass without lengthening the list of their femicides—this time, they’ll go all the way.
Iran is on the edge of a cliff.
On October 2, Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, hosted a drag queen during its Sunday service, allowing him/her to deliver a sermon on “acceptance” and join the ministers at the altar to assist during the service.
While special counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko appears to be headed toward acquittal, Durham has used the trial to make public a number of revelations that cast the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative in a fresh light.
Most prominently, Durham revealed that on Oct. 3, 2016, the FBI had offered dossier author Christopher Steele up to $1 million to provide any information, physical evidence, or documentary evidence that could back up the claims in his dossier. But despite the huge reward on offer, Steele did not provide any such information.
