Gen Z police recruits don’t want to work weekends, bosses told

Senior police officers have been told to adapt rotas for Gen Z recruits with an aversion to weekend working, and to ask their bosses for an afternoon nap.

Chief Superintendent Rob Hay, the president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS), told the group’s centenary conference that working demands must be altered if the service is to attract younger people.

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Suspect charged in shooting on Jewish school in Montreal

Montreal police arrested a suspect Wednesday in connection with shots fired against a Jewish school in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce last fall.

Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed, 20, of Les Cèdres, appeared before a Quebec Court judge at the Montreal courthouse where he was charged with intentionally discharging a firearm, on Nov. 12, at a location knowing that a person might be inside. He is also charged with theft and receiving stolen vehicles, and committing mischief on Nov. 9.

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CATCH 22: McDonald’s Trapped Between Prices That Are Too High… and Too Low?

McDonald’s has a big sale coming up in June to woo back customers driven away by high prices but there’s one little catch. Or 22 of them, if we used Joseph Heller’s math. With the price of the popular Quarter Pounder meal pushing $10 in some locations — and hitting it easily if you’d like it with two sad, thin little strips of bacon — the new $5 value meal would be a welcome relief for consumers.

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GUNTER: Commission staff applauded Christmas-is-racist report as job ‘well done’

The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) was apparently caught entirely off-guard last fall by public and parliamentary reaction to a paper it released claiming the Christmas holiday was inherently racist and the result of Canada’s colonial past.


I am all for deporting these garbage humans to Mauritania or Sudan or some other suitable nation.

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Fact check: Was Raisi’s helicopter hit by a space laser?

Laser technology is advancing rapidly within the military industry. Armed forces in countries including the US, China, the UK and Israel have reported significant developments in laser weapons that can heat, disrupt, or burn aerial targets such as drones and cruise missiles from tens of kilometers away. Meanwhile, the internet is inundated with dubious claims about the latest advanced laser weapons stationed in space, including claims related to the helicopter accident involving the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi.

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