Canadians have been falling victim to unprovoked stranger attacks with increasing frequency—in the middle of the day, in stores, or walking down the street. A man in London, Ontario, was even stabbed while sitting in his car waiting for a train to pass.
Some say Canada’s growing drug problem is to blame, with drug-induced psychosis sending addicts on violent rampages. Others say the problem is a lax criminal justice system that allows the most violent to repeatedly offend.
A blanket ban on edged weapons on German trains and buses may shortly become reality, despite the obvious challenges of compliance and enforcement.
The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, the mass stabbing that occurred on a train in Brokstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, claiming two lives.
JPMorgan Chase reached a tentative settlement with sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier, after weeks of embarrassing disclosures about the bank’s longstanding relationship with him, the bank and lawyers for the victims said in a statement on Monday.
David Boies, one of the lead lawyers for the victims, said the bank was prepared to pay $290 million to resolve the lawsuit. The parties initially had agreed not to disclose the settlement amount in their joint statement, as it was set to be included in a court filing within the next week.
h/t Mauser
While yelling religious slogans, a Syrian migrant in France just went on a wild stabbing free in a playground — repeatedly stabbing one toddler and knifing a total of four children.
Raymond Ibrahim has a good handle on ME and its culture.
Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway last month, spoke out about the encounter for the first time this week and said he doesn’t regret stepping in to restrain Neely.
Poverty doesn’t create crime. Crime creates poverty by destroying morals and economics. Only consequences can stop crime.
“I will not stand by and let criminals undermine our economy and the livelihood of New Yorkers. We are going to act,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed.
After announcing a 44% increase in retail theft in one year, Adams promised a bold new effort called “Second Chance” and “Re-Engaging Store Theft Offenders and Retail Establishments (RESTORE)” that will allow shoplifters “to avoid prosecution or incarceration by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting.”
Canadian auto insurers lost more than $1-billion last year from stolen vehicles as organized crime rings helped push up car thefts by nearly 50 per cent in Ontario and Quebec.
In a report released Tuesday, Équité Association estimates the insurance industry nationally lost more than $1-billion in vehicle-theft claims in 2022, up from $700-million in 2021. And Équité, a not-for-profit organization that assists in insurance fraud and crime investigations, expects the losses to continue to climb.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly operating an illegal exchange in the US and mishandling billions of dollars in money.
The lawsuit – which is the latest action taken by regulators to get crypto firms to comply with US law – was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday, and named Changpeng Zhao as a defendant.
Zhao is the founder and controlling shareholder of the cryptocurrency. Wall Street regulator SEC filed 13 charges against Binance for allegedly mishandling billions in customer funds, as well as lying to regulators and investors about its operations.
Interesting as Zhao is blamed/credited with bringing down Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX.
Inventive, I’ll give em that.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court said Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who participated in two killings at the direction of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969, should be released from prison on parole.
The appellate court’s ruling reverses an earlier decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who rejected parole for Van Houten in 2020. She has been recommended for parole five times since 2016. All of those recommendations were rejected by either Newsom or former Gov. Jerry Brown.
Elizabeth Holmes will find herself behind the walls of a Texas prison on Tuesday, in a remarkable fall for a startup founder who had become an icon known far outside Silicon Valley.
Holmes, 39, had once promised to revolutionize the medical world, but was convicted in January 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company, Theranos.
It was a stunning turn for an entrepreneur who had once riveted the tech world. Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 at the age of 19, set on developing a company that would turn upside down the field of medical diagnostics.
Yannick Bandaogo, the man accused of a March 2021 stabbing spree in North Vancouver that killed one and injured six, has pleaded guilty to all the charges he faced.
Bandaogo was charged with one count of second-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault.
“Oui, Mssr. judge,” he said Monday as the judge asked, in French, if he pleaded guilty to each offence.
Mass stabbing suspect taken down in Vancouver. pic.twitter.com/U12QrVBReO
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Private information belonging to over 150,000 Canadians in possession of federal departments and agencies was breached over a one-year-plus period, with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) being the worst offender, new records analyzed by The Epoch Times show.
The analysis is based on figures provided by the federal government in response to an Inquiry of Ministry. Conservative MP Luc Berthold, who submitted the inquiry on March 29, wanted to know the details of all privacy breaches that occurred since Jan. 1, 2022, including the number of people being affected, and whether or not the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was notified.
On May 18, police in the southwestern Alberta city of Lethbridge arrested 59-year-old Bernard Alonzo Gibson on suspicion of having kidnapped a 30-year-old woman, held her in his basement for four days and committed multiple sexual assaults on her.
Hamilton police say an engaged couple embroiled in a landlord-tenant dispute were shot dead as they fled their attacker on Saturday and “are truly innocent victims.”
Sgt. Steve Bereziuk says a 27-year-old female educational assistant and a 28-year-old male electrician were shot dead just outside the home they shared in the neighbourhood of Stoney Creek. Their names have not been released.
No one should die over something like this and while it is cold of me to mention it I am interested in knowing the details of the rent dispute. Small landlords suffer at the hands of bad tenants in this province just as tenants suffer at the hands of bad landlords, our politicians are to blame.
