Active shooter events have been tracked by the FBI for over two decades. There are interesting results when those statistics are compared to other data. A new study states that civilian responses to these events are less adverse than police responses. The April 2025 study found that “armed citizens do not interfere with police, and in active shooter situations, they reduce deaths and injuries significantly more effectively than the police.”
Which will conquer the White House?
Days before the Democrats left the White House, the president’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, issued a stark warning. “The next few years,” he said, “will determine whether artificial intelligence leads to catastrophe — and whether China or America prevails in the AI arms race.”
In this remark, Sullivan displayed far more lucidity regarding AI than did other members of the Democratic establishment. (Take Kamala Harris’ bewildering characterisation of bias and misinformation as “existential” threats.) Their successors in the White House, though, see AI as central to their plans for American dominance. Last week, the Trump administration slapped strict export controls on Nvidia’s H20 chip. And on Monday, the president’s science and technology policy chief, Michael Kratsios, told an audience of technologists that AI would be central to the new “Golden Age of America”.
An angry American millionaire hippie named Neil Young has endorsed Liberal Leader Mark Carney for prime minister.
It’s no surprise. Young is known for beautiful artistry and appalling political judgment. He became an American citizen (now dual) in 2020 — presumably to validate his vociferous complaints about Donald Trump. Also, some of Young’s family are American. His career thrived in the United States.
Any feasible path to victory in the federal election for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party runs through the Greater Toronto Area, a region dominated by the Liberals since 2015.
There are 31 seats up for grabs in this election in the GTA, often nicknamed the 905 for its area code. These suburban cities stretching in an arc around Toronto from Burlington through Vaughan to Oshawa are home to more than 2.5 million eligible voters.
The Conservatives came into this campaign with just four MPs in this region, so making gains here is essential to their success at the national level.
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Hmmm … During leaders’ debate, Carney praised a nuclear firm he bought while at Brookfield
There are some things that just leave you speechless, and what happened in the White House Press Room today is one of them. And it didn’t just leave me speechless — it left the reporter pool stunned, too.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she’d be holding an impromptu press briefing with a special guest on Wednesday afternoon, and if you missed it, it was a doozy.
In just 60 seconds, Karoline Leavitt SHREDDED the media straight to their faces for defending the so-called "Maryland father," a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, over a real Maryland Mother, Rachel Morin, who was brutally murdered by a different illegal.
Why do THE LEFT… pic.twitter.com/nf6lt6aAlT— favilla4@yahoo.com (@AmericanPride73) April 15, 2025
On Monday, during a campaign stop in Montreal, Pierre Poilievre had the audacity to suggest that his government would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court decision that ruled that consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers was “cruel and unusual punishment” and violated the murderer’s human dignity. For most reasonable Canadians, this is a no-brainer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, however, rushed to condemn the move as “dangerous,” while CBC’s Power and Politics host David Cochrane and his panel guest Rob Russo suggested it was a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. But the problem of light murder sentencing does exist, and not just for mass murderers.
Morbidly obese trans activist on TikTok advocates that men should invade women's bathrooms and tell women to "f*cking cry about it" if they oppose them. pic.twitter.com/13VdElU1Wx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2025
In Ontario, there are 43 seats held by the Liberals federally that, remarkably, are held by Doug Ford’s Conservatives provincially.
The Premier is coming off a third straight majority victory in the province’s February election. His party’s riding organizations are in place. Had he gotten out the pom-poms in support of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he could likely have helped him win some of those ridings.
So it turns out that not everyone is happy with the job President Trump is doing.
In fact, some people are borderline hysterical. I’d like to offer her a cup of chamomile tea and a sprig of lavender to relax. pic.twitter.com/4MMmQaZXMr
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 17, 2025
There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it.
One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news that signs of a gas, which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been found on a planet called K2-18b.
Now, the prospect of really finding alien life – meaning we are not alone in the Universe – is not far away, according to the scientist leading the team that made the detection.
Disruptive technologies like AI are empowering bad actors faster than law enforcement can respond.
On New Year’s morning, American citizens awoke to news of another mass-casualty terror attack. Using a rented a pick-up truck, a man plowed through revellers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street, killing 14 and wounding at least 57 others.
This was no crude act of vehicular terrorism: the attacker employed smart glasses to reconnoiter the area before striking. He had wired his vehicle with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and strategically planted additional bombs across the neighborhood. The materials used were not black-market contraband but commercially available technology, repurposed for destruction.
Firearms have been a big part of my life, even though I didn’t grow up around them.
When I was 12, I got the chance to shoot a small-bore rifle for the first time in the Air Cadet program. Target shooting demands focus, discipline and consistency. That challenge had me hooked from the start.
Over the weekend, CNN aired a special edition of The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, titled “MisinfoNation: Extreme America.” While most of the special unsurprisingly focused on pointing fingers at the Right, they also had a segment on alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione.
The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before being transported to the hospital, according to police. He is believed to be an FSU student. His mother was assigned by the sheriff’s office to protect a local public school.
#BREAKING: Police announce the shooter at Florida State University is the son of a Leon County Sheriff’s Deputy
He’s been identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, and used one of his mother’s weapons to commit the mass shooting at FSU.
HOLY CRAP. pic.twitter.com/mlkrQAQlvg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2025
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