Here’s what we know about Yannick Bandaogo the man charged in the fatal North Vancouver stabbing rampage

…The RCMP said police were investigating Bandaogo’s “background, history in B.C. and relationship to the victims”.

Court record searches in B.C. turned up no one of that name.

However, according to a Postmedia News search of court records in Quebec there was an arrest warrant issued in Sept. 2020 for a 28-year-old man called Yannick Bandaogo.

Assault charges, all from Quebec, this suggests the possibility he is a “migrant” of some type.

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Massive ship Ever Given that was stuck in Suez Canal finally freed

SUEZ, Egypt — Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week clogged one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries.

Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday.

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Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

The reaction to the mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado, and Atlanta, Georgia, over the last week has revealed how invested the Democratic establishment is in one all-powerful narrative. Both shootings produced an immediate response from the media, Democratic politicians, and activists—that the slaughters were the result of white supremacy and that white Americans are the biggest threat facing the US. That interpretation was reached, in the case of the Boulder shooting, on the slimmest of evidence, and in the case of the Atlanta shooting, in the face of contradictory facts.

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It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

We live in a free country — of course teachers should be allowed to show contentious cartoons

The first thing I did when I noticed the protests erupting outside Batley Grammar School was to check the calendar. It told me that it was 2021 — more than 500 years after the scientific revolution and 400 since the Enlightenment. And yet here was a teacher going into hiding for sharing a religious cartoon with his class, protesters demanding that he be sacked on the basis of theology. I couldn’t help thinking of Galileo in front of the Inquisition.

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Writing music down like Mozart did is ‘white hegemony’, proposed reform of Oxford’s curriculum reportedly claims

Teaching music at Oxford may soon be less about writing notation and conducting orchestras, and more about which artists hated Donald Trump’s use of their works without permission, proposed reform reportedly suggests.

One of the most prestigious universities in the UK plans to overhaul its music courses for undergraduates to steer them away from elements of ‘colonialism’ and ‘white supremacy’, the Telegraph reported, citing internal documents. The supposedly problematic parts of the curriculum include the study of musical notation, described as a “colonialist representational system.”

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Hazy Forecast for Biden’s Goal of a Green Electrical Grid

What’s my name?

…President Joe Biden wants the United States, by the year 2035, to have carbon-free electricity or what is termed “net zero,” meaning an overall balance between greenhouse gas emissions produced and so-called carbon offsets, such as planting of trees.

“There’s no way that it is feasible without technologies that aren’t currently in the marketplace today,” Mike Sommers, president and chief executive officer of the American Petroleum Institute, replied to a VOA question on a conference call with reporters.

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The dark Prince – A short history of a very modern mercenary

‘No modern US war would be complete without the involvement of Blackwater founder Erik Prince,’ wrote journalist Jeremy Scahill in his seminal book Dirty Wars. That was back in 2013. Since its founding in 1997, Blackwater, Prince’s private military outfit, has been reincarnated several times under different names. But Prince has stayed the same.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia — Prince, a very 21st-century mercenary, has wreaked havoc in all these places. He comes, he spoils, he leaves a mess that is impossible to clear up.

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Derek Chauvin trial: Why role of TV cameras could come into focus

Derek Chauvin trial: Why role of TV cameras could come into focus

From Monday, three discreet TV cameras will offer anyone with an internet connection a front-row seat to a criminal trial of global interest.

One of those cameras will be trained on Derek Chauvin, the former policeman accused of killing George Floyd in custody.

Mr Chauvin could be jailed for decades over the 25 May, 2020 death of Mr Floyd, an unarmed black man.

The knee Mr Chauvin placed on Mr Floyd’s neck was filmed for all to see.

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BLM groups demand The Masters and MLB All-Star Game are MOVED from Georgia after Gov. Kemp signed new voting law

Major sporting events could be moved out of the state of Georgia if calls from Civil Rights groups are to be listened to.

Calls to move The Masters golf tournament and for the MLB All-Star game to be moved come after the state passed a controversial voting law Thursday.

Republican supporters say the new law is needed to restore confidence in Georgia’s elections. Democrats say it will restrict voting access, especially for voters of color.

But… 75% Support Voter ID Laws

h/t Mauser

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LSU Event Explores the ‘Religion of White Rage,’ Says ‘Conservatism’ May Be a ‘Euphemism for White Supremacy’

Education’s in a state of transition.

Whereas before — it seems to me — the core purpose of tax-funded instruction was to teach very basic, objective facts in the form of reading, general history, writing, science, and math, these days, potent perspective and subjective theory are ultimately on offer.

A component of the government’s new service: a righting of wrongs by way of racial justice.

And at the university level, they’re really trying to fix our flaws.

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Murder charge laid against Yannick Bandaogo in North Vancouver fatal stabbing spree

Yannick Bandaogo, 28, has been charged in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in North Vancouver, B.C.

On March 27, 2021 at around 1:40 p.m., the North Vancouver RCMP and other emergency responders were called to the Lynn Valley library for reports of a stabbing. Officers arrived on scene to find multiple victims with stab wounds. Six individuals sustained stab wounds of varying severity and one woman in her late twenties succumbed to her injuries and died. The remaining victims were transported to hospital for non-life threatening emergency medical care. One man was arrested by police at scene and he remains in police custody.

On March 28, 2021, 28-year-old Yannick Bandaogo was charged with second-degree murder. His background, history in BC and relationship to the victims, if any, is still being determined.


Last name indicates it is possible he may be a native of Burkina Faso, a country roiled by Islamist insurrection and whose population is 61% Muslim and 28% Christian, the rest being Animist, according to the CIA World Fact Book.

No word yet on a motive.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s condemnation of China a long time coming

It’s good that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally moving away from his government’s previous policy of appeasing China’s communist dictators.

But what took him so long?


Canada’s China Class was made rich at our expense through their treachery.

They are well connected and influential within our northern Banana Republic.

They don’t want the spigot turned off. That’s why.

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