The man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis cops Thursday had been wanted in connection with a felony arms conviction and been involved in at least 20 previous run-ins with authorities, according to records and a report.
Winston Boogie Smith, 32, was gunned down in the Midwest city around 2 p.m. when he “produced a handgun” as members of a US Marshals task force tried to take him into custody on the state warrant, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department said.
If there’s one thing that’s booming in Canada, it’s government revenues. According to the latest IMF statistics, our federal, provincial, and local governments will raise close to $1 trillion in taxes, user fees and other revenues this year. This tidy sum accounts for 41.8 per cent of Canada’s economic output. Just six years ago, in 2015, governments collected a fifth less – about $800 billion – or 40 per cent of GDP.
Anti-Trump sentiment has been one of the factors that contaminated the debate on the origin of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, has said.
Efforts seeking a full inquiry into the origins of the CCP virus have been growing recently, including a letter signed by 18 international researchers pushing for a “proper investigation.”
A Chinese virologist who was among the first to suggest COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab has said that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails prove she was right all along.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan was one of the first to research the emerging coronavirus and previously revealed she was forced into hiding after accusing Beijing of a cover-up.
This year’s valedictorian at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas, has gone viral for her commencement speech, in which she celebrated abortion and attacked her home state for passing a bill to protect unborn children.
Paxton Smith ditched remarks that had been pre-approved by the school and replaced them with a speech criticizing the recently passed heartbeat bill, which allows citizens to sue doctors who knowingly perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
After having his asylum application in Sweden rejected, a Moroccan man has released a film where he burns a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in protest.
The man came to Sweden from Morocco two years ago on a tourist visa and sought asylum, citing persecution in his home country due to his “religious doubts”.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency for the German state of Lower Saxony, revealed on Thursday in its new report a dramatic increase of the number of members and supporters of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.
According to the German language intelligence report reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, the number of supporters and members rose from 1,050 in 2019 to 1,250 in 2020.
Did you know that online pornography isn’t bad for our children? Heck no, according to a report released by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) exposure to pornography even makes some children feel happy feelings.
The latest advertisement from Subway features none other than U.S. Women’s soccer star, Megan Rapinoe. During the commercial, the World Cup winner encourages a man to ditch his original plan to order burritos for lunch, and instead get a “freshly made Footlong from Subway.”
The federal Liberals sparked an uproar over a bid Friday morning to shut down committee study on its controversial Bill C-10, as experts continue to express concern about the impact the legislation could have on free speech online.
The Liberals moved a time allocation motion for the bill on Friday morning, a procedural move that crunches the time allotted to discussing a bill and is normally used to limit hours of debate in the House of Commons — not at committees.
Diversity Is Good, But No Jews, Please
Move over Woka-Cola, It’s Google’s turn to show their bigotry. Kamau Bobb, the leader of Google’s diversity strategy and research team, was reassigned after he wrote: “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” He explained in 2007, in a now-deleted blog, that “If I were a Jew today, my sensibilities would be tormented. I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Jewish people have endured and the insatiable appetite for vengeful violence that Israel, my homeland, has now acquired.”
For many Canadians, the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at a former B.C. residential school was a shocking reminder of a system designed to forcibly assimilate First Nations children.
For China’s English-language media, it appears to have also been a prime propaganda opportunity.
The Justin Trudeau-led Government of Canada has announced that one month is not sufficient for the celebration of LGBT pride, and that the festivities will be extended to cover the whole season.
“1 month isn’t enough to celebrate Pride in Canada!” declared his Twitter-verified ‘Free to be me’ account, an official account of the Government of Canada, alongside an emoji rainbow, gay pride flag emoji, and transgender flag emoji.
For the first time in history, one country has attacked — at the same time and in one audacious move — all the other ones.
China committed that horrific crime by taking steps, in December 2019 and January of last year, to deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond its borders.
The international community must now impose the most severe costs on the Chinese regime to, among other things, establish deterrence. Why? China’s regime committed the crime of this century and may well be planning another horrific act.
The Liberal Party’s national campaign co-chairs have declared a “state of electoral urgency,” a procedural move that will allow the party to speed up the nomination processes for local candidates ahead of the next federal election.
It’s the latest sign that the federal parties are preparing for a possible fall election. The Conservative Party is prepared to invoke a similar measure if an election is called to get many more would-be MPs nominated on a faster timeline.
