In 2020, police rolled up to a truck in small-town Saskatchewan as paramedics helped a woman inside. She had overdosed, but survived thanks to her companions’ call for emergency help. The officers, suspecting drugs, detained her companions and searched their truck, finding modified handguns, gun parts, ammunition, baggies, scales and needles. The findings screamed “drug dealer.” One companion, a man, was charged with carrying prohibited weapons and a fake ID.
Disturbing surveillance footage out of the Bay Area in California shows a serial shoplifter setting a store clerk’s hair on fire with stolen lighter fluid after he tried to stop the alleged thief from stealing.
Suraj — the store clerk who declined to reveal his last name out of fear of being targeted again — is seen on video tussling with Kendall Burton before Burton doused Suraj’s head in lighter fluid on Sept. 22 at the Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante, according to a video obtained by CBS News.
Jewish groups say the federal government must disclose more information from investigations into alleged war criminals who entered Canada after the Second World War, in a push that was re-energized after Parliament honoured a man who was revealed to have fought for a Nazi unit.
“When it comes to remembering the victims, we’ve done a lot. But when it comes to remembering the murderers, we’ve done very little,” David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday.
When FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire teetered on the brink of collapse, top lieutenant Caroline Ellison addressed a group of employees. One part of the empire, trading firm
Alameda Research, had made risky bets using customer deposits from its sister crypto-exchange FTX and now the money was gone.
When an employee asked who decided to take customer funds, Ellison hesitated, then said, “Sam, I guess.”
What’s inside the Las Vegas Sphere? pic.twitter.com/LhkXOaKQaW
— WHAT'S INSIDE? (@whatsinside) September 30, 2023
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VANCOUVER – Nearly two-thirds of the overdose deaths in British Columbia this year came after smoking illicit drugs, yet only 40 per cent of the supervised consumption sites in the province offer a safe place to smoke, and the chief coroner says that needs to change.
Lisa Lapointe said the latest data show 65 per cent of overdose deaths in 2023 came after smoking drugs, compared to 15 per cent involving injection, 14 per cent snorting and five per cent from oral consumption. The coroners’ office notes that people can consume using multiple methods.
Also in the data, the updated overdose death toll since the province declared a public health emergency in April 2016. Almost 13,000 have died since then, more than 1,600 this year.
If visitors to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are impressed by the lack of homelessness on the city’s streets, this will not be because the issue has been resolved. It is instead being brushed under the carpet—or, rather, shifted temporarily to nearby towns.
According to CNN, between 50 and 150 people have been carted out of the city every week during the summer, and removed to one of ten locations across France. Officials in these areas were asked earlier in the year to establish “temporary regional accommodation facilities.”
This past weekend, I was a guest on the CBC’s weekly call-in show, Cross Country Checkup, to discuss and debate the question: do we still need the CBC?
I was there in particular to make the case that the news media market has evolved over the past decades such that a public broadcaster of the size and scope of the CBC is no longer justified. Others argued in favour of preserving the CBC. And then there was a combination of callers and experts who found themselves somewhere in the middle.
An idea whose time has come.
Kyiv has a battle plan to recapture the peninsula but behind the scenes there are serious fears about what would happen next
Last week Mykhailo Podolyak, one of President Zelensky’s main advisers, made it clear that Ukrainian attacks on Crimea would only intensify, because he saw it as crucial to winning the war. When Crimea falls, he predicted, “Russian troops at the front will panic and Moscow’s political rhetoric will change completely.” The fighting talk apart, it is less clear how the peninsula could be liberated, and even whether this would be wise.
If you needed more proof that Canada is no longer a serious country, look no further than the announcement that the feds are looking to cut $1 billion from our pathetic defence budget. It reveals our government’s frivolously toxic mix of fiscal incompetence, obsession with symbols over substance, and hostility to our country and our culture.
Given the state of Canadian politics, it’s rare to find myself bothered by a politician’s resignation. In fact, it’s usually the opposite — the list of elected officials I think should resign for a variety of screw ups grows ever longer.
However, I was upset at the news of now-former Ontario minister of labour, immigration, training and skills development Monte McNaughton’s departure for a private sector job.
President Biden is a family man, in more ways than one.
Joe Biden the Big Guy is, in anthropological terms, the Big Man of the Biden clan, lending to his family a sense of protection and plenty of patronage.
The family, rather than any one individual, is the best prism through which to look at the whole tawdry enterprise. The Biden “brand” was the business, and the Bidens, as such, were beneficiaries.
This infiltration includes academic and scientific centers, commercial and financial institutions, religious and Islamic organizations, think tanks, and even media outlets associated with the U.S. government.
In the intricate world of global politics and security, the yearning for insights, foresight, and preparedness stands as an imperative pillar. The U.S. Intelligence Community, during the Biden Presidency in 2021, 2022, and 2023, undeniably predicted the looming influence and intelligence threat posed by Iran. The professionals meticulously and continually warned the White House and the esteemed intelligence committees of the House and Senate, reflecting a proactive approach toward national security.
Several embalmers and a pathologist in North America and the United Kingdom have reported a rise in irregular, hardened blood clots.
“They’re just not normal blood clots. It’s like a tissue, not a clot,” Alabama-based embalmer Richard Hirschman told The Epoch Times. “Sometimes when people look at the pictures, they think I just cut the blood vessels out of the body, but that’s not the case. The clot is growing and forming within the vein.”
Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement provided only temporary relief from the agony
When Neville Chamberlain landed at Heston, the crowds so thronged the streets that the 14-mile journey back to London took him 90 minutes. The prime minister had brought them peace for their time, and they were joyous. Or were they simply delirious with relief?
New research covering letters, diaries, mass observation records and more has revealed the extent of national anxiety 85 years ago in the autumn of 1938. There was an epidemic of suicide and other mental health crises over the threat of another war, though they were likely to refer to it with the term “nerves”.
