Lucy Letby this week became only the third woman alive to be handed a whole-life jail term after being sentenced for murdering seven babies and trying to kill another six. But for an outraged British public it seems that sentence is not enough. A new poll for The Spectator by Redfield & Wilton show that 66 per cent of them favour the death penalty as just punishment. Polling of 1,500 people was conducted on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first comments about Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s presumed death in a plane crash.
“I’ve known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s. He was a man with no easy fate. He made some serious mistakes in his life, but he also achieved the needed results—both for himself and, when I asked him, for the common cause,” Putin said during a televised meeting, according to the Kremlin-controlled news agency Tass.
Trump lands in Atlanta to surrender for historic fourth arrest: live updates
Protesters have tried to bypass an RCMP blockade on the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia’s Shuswap region, amid tensions over the refusal of some residents to obey wildfire evacuation orders.
Live social media videos of the incident posted Wednesday evening show about 20 protesters confronting a blockade of police cars near the lakeside community of Sorrento.
They tell officers they do not believe politicians have the right to prevent them using the road, and that it is illegal for the RCMP to block it.
Jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will likely have to survive without access to Adderall while behind bars at the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to federal prison guidelines.
As The Post reported earlier this week, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers whined at a hearing that he hasn’t been given his prescribed Adderall to treat his ADHD in the 11 days since he was tossed in jail to await trial in October.
On August 21, the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder of Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old Jewish mother of three who taught pre-school. The woman was gunned down by two terrorists near the West Bank city of Hebron.
Shortly after the attack, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority President — and Fatah chairman — Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement in which it took credit for the attack. The group said it will continue to “adhere to the option of the rifle as a strategic choice.” The “option of the rifle,” as is evident, refers to terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers.
Toronto, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow to cancel Toronto’s bid to host a handful of 2026 World Cup games after the Toronto Star revealed that former mayor John Tory signed agreements with FIFA that won’t be disclosed to the public.
Building 2.2 million purpose-built rental units in under a decade sounds like an impossible task.
Despite the obvious challenge, a roundtable of housing experts from the private and non-profit sectors is providing the government of Canada with 10 recommendations on how to achieve this goal.
Canada will have to build 5.8 million homes over the next seven years to restore affordability, with 2.2 million of that being dedicated to purpose-built rental, according to an Aug. 15 report by housing experts brought together by the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC) and Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness.
“It’s an enormous mountain to climb, given that we’ve only built 570,000 units of rental housing in the last 30 years. We are talking about tripling – almost quadrupling – in seven years what we’ve built in the last 30 years,” said Michael Brooks, CEO of REALPAC, an association of executives in Canadian commercial real estate.
If these numbers are true we are well and truly fecked.
Now that Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis has turned all eyes toward her courthouse in Atlanta, the House Judiciary Committee has its eyes on her.
WSB Radio reported this morning that Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Willis’ office announcing an investigation into Willis and her grand jury investigation into Donald Trump and his actions surrounding the 2020 election.
It’s no wonder that Canadians are among the most skeptical people in the world when it comes to confidence in their government’s capacity to deal with climate change. That was the finding of a global Ipsos survey earlier this year, and there’s no reason to think that this summer’s record-breaking wildfires across Canada will change things much.
Rock legend Alice Cooper — who pioneered performative gender-bending on stage — believes that generation woke’s obsession with transgenderism is a “fad” that has gotten so out of control that it is now “laughable.”
Since Pierre Poilievre launched his Conservative leadership campaign, polls have shown a shift many previously thought impossible in Canadian politics: younger voters turning rightward.
In a reversal of the 2015 election that carried Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to power, the 18-34 demographic now heavily favours team blue while the over 65 cohort strongly prefers team red. The latest poll out of Abacus Data shows the CPC now has a 10-point lead with millennials — a group Trudeau still held by a solid seven points in Abacus’ post-2021 federal election survey.
Debt among Canadian millennials at record levels, while earnings haven’t kept up: RBC report
Canadian millennials are more likely to face the brunt of a wavering labour market as most face mounting debt with an income that fails to keep up with inflation, according to a report from RBC Economics.
The report released on Wednesday said Canadian millennials are more vulnerable to serious financial burdens if job losses continue to rise in their age bracket. July marked the third consecutive month Canada’s overall unemployment rate has increased; the rate stood at 5.2 per cent in May before it rose to 5.5 per cent in July, according to Statistic Canada.
US President Joe Biden’s 90-day probe into the origins of Covid-19 censored the input of intelligence agency scientists who concluded the virus was most likely genetically engineered.
In May 2021, President Biden tasked the Intelligence Community with providing an assessment into how the pandemic began after reports, first published by Sky News, that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been hospitalised with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019 in the suspected first cluster of the pandemic.
In 2021, the Biden administration said that most intel agencies thought Covid came from nature. But now, sources say that somebody blocked FBI from working with DOD, and then censored DOD analysts who had a “smoking gun” proving Covid originated in a lab.https://t.co/CtXDEDYEk1
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 24, 2023
Biden got his 10%.
A third of guns used in Canadian crimes and then traced by authorities were legally imported from the US. That’s three times the global average.
Some 300 miles north of Canada’s border with Montana, the prairies end, the roads narrow and the rural towns give way to the vast, unbroken forests of northern Saskatchewan, where on clear nights the aurora borealis dance above pristine lakes.
This is the home of Canada’s highest rate of gun crimes.
Drive-by shootings, the latest just a few months ago, have erupted in the quiet lanes of La Ronge, which serves as an entry point to the northern expanse. In May 2022, a 32-year-old man was shot dead at a cottage. A month later, on a sunny Sunday morning, La Ronge went into lockdown as an emergency alert warned of two suspects, armed with handguns, on the loose. In a community of some 7,000 people, police in recent months have seized more than 50 rifles and handguns. The firearms now line one wall of a storage room. A dozen more are stashed, barrels down, in a blue bucket.
Must be an election looming.
A Nordstrom Rack in Riverside has been ransacked by a band of six thieves who made off with thousands of dollars worth of designer handbags.
The incident come as Southern California experiences a wave of ‘flash robberies’, where a group of thieves overwhelm a store’s employees and security before making off with as many items as possible.
The department store on Canyon Springs Parkway was hit first on July 10 and again just weeks later in a separate incident on August 14.
[News] Arcadia, California.— Thieves hit Macy’s located in The Shops at Santa Anita on 400 S Baldwin Ave. | smash-and-grab | #burglary #shoplifting 📸 Aniella Weise pic.twitter.com/9by0TCA6z0
— PPV-TAHOE – News Journalist (@ppv_tahoe) August 22, 2023
