President Joe Biden has been accused of hypocrisy after his administration pushed for the death penalty in the case of a terrorist convicted on Thursday in New York.
Sayfullo Saipov, who used a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, was found guilty of murder and terrorism charges by a jury in the first federal death penalty trial of Biden’s administration.
Joe don’t know.
Canada’s military is not ready for the challenges the future holds as the global security situation continues “deteriorating,” warned Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre.
In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson airing Sunday, Eyre spoke about the efforts the military is making to support Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion, but also about the difficulties the Canadian Forces are facing in preparing for the demands of a more unstable world.
And it’s all because of you right wing racists.
Memphis cops on Friday night released footage showing the events leading up to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Horrific footage showed the moments he was stopped by police, him fleeing, then the vicious beating when they caught up and the lack of medical care.
Five officers involved in the January 7 incident have been charged with second-degree murder, and fired from the force.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the boost in police officers on Toronto transit in the wake of recent violence is a “Band-Aid solution” and is calling for the city to hire more police officers.
The premier’s comments come a day after police announced more than 80 officers would, in a paid overtime capacity, be at Toronto Transit Commission locations to reduce victimization, prevent crimes of opportunity and enhance public safety. The move follows a series of violent cases on the TTC, including stabbings, BB gun shootings and an alleged swarming.
Urban decay is our strength.
The three men plotted to kill outspoken human rights campaigner Masih Alinejad in exchange for cash after a failed previous attempt by Iran to kidnap her.
The United States charged three suspected members of an Eastern Europe-based mafia organization with planning to assassinate Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad at the behest of Iran, according to federal indictments unsealed Friday.
The U.S. Justice Department said the three men — Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev, all of whom have been arrested — plotted to kill the outspoken human rights campaigner in July in exchange for cash after the failure of a previous attempt by Iran to kidnap Alinejad.
Racial segregation is not a sign of progress.
I can’t believe this needs to be said in 2023. But, apparently, it does.
For years now, Canadian institutions have surrendered to the demands of critical race theorists and other so-called progressives who argue Canada is a “systemically racist” country.
A 13-year-old Palestinian gunman opened fire in east Jerusalem on Saturday, wounding a father and son, Israeli police said, following one of the deadliest attacks on Israeli civilians in years the night before.
The shooting near the historic Old City of Jerusalem badly wounded a father, 47, and his 23-year-old, son in their upper bodies, Israel’s ambulance service said.
A police spokesman described it as a “terrorist attack” and said the assailant “was neutralised”.
… She is against the big boost to the police budget just announced by Toronto’s mayor, John Tory. She’d like to see the money spent on shelter beds, mental-health supports and help for troubled young people instead.
But she is convinced things are going wrong in her city.
Heading to Blackpool to attend an awards ceremony, businesswoman Sophie Preston-Hall not only arrived late, but barely had time to get dressed.
‘I’ve made the journey lots of times. From my home in Essex, it should have taken about four-and-a-half hours,’ says the 49-year-old.
‘Instead it took almost 12. I was an hour and a half late to the dinner and ended up having to change in a Tesco toilet — where I had to ask a woman to zip up my dress for me.’
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sketched a vision Friday of a country rife with problems caused solely by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and said if he’s refusing to fix them, it’s time to just get out of the way.
Poilievre’s comments kicked off his party’s two-day planning meetings for the coming resumption of Parliament after the winter break.
Canada’s government is under pressure to launch an independent judicial inquiry into abuse in sport during a series of parliamentary committees in the country’s House of Commons following harrowing testimonies by abuse survivors in December.
Appeals for a widespread inquiry into abuse from athletes, politicians, and academics have so far been resisted by Justin Trudeau’s government and his Minister for Sport, Pascale St-Onge, sparking one senior member of the government to split from her party to demand “real leaders step up”.
The parents and brother of alleged crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried should be forced to answer questions and provide financial documents about their personal wealth and any money they may have gotten from FTX, the bankrupt firm he founded, lawyers said in a court filing.
FTX asked a judge for permission to question, under oath, Bankman-Fried’s family and a handful of the company’s former top executives as part of a hunt for hidden assets that could be used to repay creditors owed billions of dollars.
New CDC data show that the rise in murders isn’t a “red state” or “blue state” problem.
“… To take one of the more dramatic examples, between the 2018–2019 and 2020–2021 periods, the black homicide rate went up by about 40 percent and the white one by 15 percent—already a glaring disparity. But since the black homicide rate started out so much higher than the white one, this translated to an increase of just 0.4 per 100,000 for whites and 9.7 per 100,000 for blacks—nearly 25 times as large. The increase in the black homicide rate was greater than the total homicide rate for the nation as a whole.”
Only George Soros could look at the state of American higher education and conclude that it’s not liberal enough.
In 2020 alone, Soros’ Open Society Foundations budgeted more than $63 million, or just over 5% of its budget, toward influencing higher education here and abroad. Over the years Soros has funded more than 20,000 scholarships, invested hundreds of millions into liberal American colleges, and created a University of his own.
As more motorists own electric vehicles (EVs) and experience problems operating them, evidence shows that the movement to abandon gas-powered vehicles is ideologically motivated and unsupported by rational economic calculation.
In January 2023, four Wyoming state senators and two representatives introduced Senate Joint Resolution No. SJ004 to ban the sale of EVs in Wyoming by 2035. The proposed legislation stressed that “Wyoming’s vast stretches of highway, coupled with a lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, make the widespread use of electric vehicles impracticable for the state.” The proposed legislation also noted that “the batteries used in electric vehicles contain critical minerals whose domestic supply is limited and at risk of disruption.”
