I guess the guy just ran out of stuff to climb.
At the age of five, little Steven Guilbeault was obstinate. He climbed a tree to prevent it from being felled and he refused to come down. Eventually, he returned to earth and the tree met its inevitable fate.
From NBC
“Providence police released a brief description of a gunman.
“Preliminarily, all we have is a suspect that was a male dressed in black,” Providence Police Commander Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of the department, said at a news conference.”
2 dead, 8 critical, Providence mayor says https://t.co/NR1jTEpNAv via @nbcnews
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 13, 2025
An alleged gunman remains on the loose in an active shooter situation on the campus of Brown University, school officials said after retracting an announcement that they had arrested a suspect.
The Rhode Island Ivy League school sent out a first alert to students on campus shortly after 4:20 p.m. of an active shooter near the Barus & Holley Engineering school building.
Shooting at Brown University sparks panic with ‘multiple victims’ as students are told to ‘RUN’ or ‘FIGHT’
An active shooter has left ‘multiple casualties’ at Brown University campus as students were urged to ‘run, hide and fight.’
The Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island has been shutdown following reports of a shooting on Saturday evening.
The terrifying incident unfolded near the Barus and Holley Engineering building, according to an alert sent out by the university at 4:22pm local time.
NBC Live updates: Brown University warns of active shooter on campus
BBC Live Feed: Search for suspect under way after shooting on campus, Brown University says
🚨 BREAKING: Officials confirm 2 deceased, 8 in critical condition following mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, RI
Shelter in place is STILL in effect, as police hunt for the “shooter or shooters”
Pray for the victims and their families tonight 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/5tZQoTuoxT
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025
Twitter –Brown University
🚨 BREAKING: MASS CASUALTY event declared at Brown University as now a possible 20 VICTIMS reported following an active shooter situation
Several reports that a masked suspect is now IN CUSTODY, thankfully
Say a prayer for these victims. The exact number of deceased versus… pic.twitter.com/6FetYiAHU5
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: Police respond to an active shooter situation at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Multiple people have been confirmed shot at the university after at least one gunman opened fire. The suspect is still at large.
Situation developing. pic.twitter.com/TuIs0lzkl3
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 13, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: Heart-wrenching moment as mother of a student at Brown University’s mass shooting recalls her text exchange with her son
“The first text I get – ‘mom, there’s a live shooting on campus, I’m going to run, I love you.'”
“We’ve only been texting, I’m getting live… pic.twitter.com/gA59fub8rB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 13, 2025
h/t PA Cat
Iranian security forces have “violently arrested” Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi, her foundation has said.
The Narges Foundation said Ms Mohammadi, 53, was detained in the eastern city of Mashhad, along with other activists.
The Nobel Committee said it was “deeply concerned by today’s brutal arrest of Narges Mohammadi” and called on the authorities “to immediately clarify Mohammadi’s whereabouts, ensure her safety and integrity, and to release her without conditions”. Iran does not appear to have commented.
She says — as Canadians face rising living costs, ongoing challenges in finding affordable housing, and increasing pressure on public services — refugees and newcomers have too often been unfairly cast as scapegoats for deeper systemic issues.
“We often focus on the demand side … and we don’t look enough at the supply side,” said Clark-Kazak. “People who are coming to this country are also trained as doctors, engineers and construction workers who could build housing.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not be the subject of a criminal investigation in Britain over allegations he had sex in London with a teenager who was trafficked, and then put pressure on his police protection officer to dig up dirt on her.
The Metropolitan police on Saturday said after weeks of review, it would not launch any formal criminal investigation into King Charles’s brother. Mountbatten-Windsor’s ties to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein led to the stripping of his royal status.
An Ontario Superior Court justice repeatedly questioned the strength of evidence Friday against a Toronto-area lawyer facing extradition to the United States on charges tied to fugitive and alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding.
During a bail hearing for Deepak Paradkar, Justice Peter Bawden pushed back on Crown submissions that if the suspended lawyer were released pending the outcome of his extradition hearing, he would be a flight risk.
Controversial Hollywood comic Kathy Griffin is once again attacking President Donald Trump and hoping for his death.
KATHY GRIFFIN: "I'm just waiting for [TRUMP] to die. He will die sooner than later. He's in terrible shape. He is disgusting to look at. Like, disgusting… I can't even, like, stand to look at him." pic.twitter.com/do8dmuPzLA
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) December 13, 2025
h/t Hermes
The plan isn’t designed to succeed
Playing politics with pipelines is a time-honored Canadian tradition. Tuesday’s events in the House of Commons offered a delightful twist on the genre.
The Conservatives introduced a motion quoting the Liberals’ own pipeline promises laid out in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alberta, nearly verbatim. The Liberals, true to form, killed it 196–139 with enthusiastic help from the NDP, Bloc, and Greens.
Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State gunman, the US Central Command has said.
Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was “engaged and killed”.
In a post on X, the US Central Command said the attack was “the result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman”, while a Pentagon official said initial assessments showed the attack was likely to be carried out by the Islamic State group.
h/t Everyone who sent this in
Planned changes to Canada’s hate speech law would criminalise biblical passages, critics have claimed.
Under Canada’s criminal code, anyone found guilty of “wilful promotion of hatred” faces up to two years in jail.
But it also says that prosecution should not apply to a statement made in “good faith” and “based on belief in a religious text”.
Carney’s kid is a tranny so you know where his sympathies lie.
Yup. 🫣😆@fancypants_s https://t.co/6bfGK6HAcK
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 13, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Mass migration risks making the UK and its neighbours ‘unrecognisable’. America could one day cut them loose
Donald Trump’s description of Europe, offered in an interview with Politico last week, was characteristically blunt: “What they’re doing with immigration is a disaster.” Unless this changes, some nations “will not be viable countries any longer”, with politicians like Sadiq Khan “elected because so many people have come in. They vote for him now”.
It was an assessment that came hard on the heels of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, which warned that Europe would be “unrecognisable in 20 years” and risked “civilisational erasure”.
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 😆👍@fancypants_s https://t.co/Emu6ZJ0QnD
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 13, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
The promise of a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming
OTTAWA — The promise, yet again, that Canada will soon produce a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming, a perennial work in progress, not to mention fairly relevant right now.
The latest word is that sometime in the new year, weeks after the U.S. threw down its own aggressive America First plan on the desks of global leaders, the Liberal government will present Canada’s vision of the main threats to national sovereignty and security, and how best to tackle them.
