Four criminal organizations based in Western Canada are considered high-level threats to the security of the country, according to a new report by Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.
The federal agency, which is responsible for collecting information from police across the country, said that “organized crime remains a preeminent threat to Canada’s security, contributing to thousands of deaths annually from overdoses due to illicit drugs, as well as firearms and gang violence.”
I never use the word based, but if I did, I would use it to describe this clip of Tucker Carlson food shopping at a Russian supermarket, wow. pic.twitter.com/weuMOYpzYj
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The Daniel Penny jury has announced it cannot reach a unanimous verdict on the most significant charge he is facing.
The jury today told the judge that they cannot reach agree on whether Penny is guilty of second degree manslaughter.
They are yet to reveal where they stand on the second charge – criminally negligent homicide.
Penny faces 15 years if convicted of the most serious count.
The judge ordered them to return to deliberations, ruling they cannot move on to the second charge of criminally negligent homicide until they have acquitted Penny of manslaughter.
Tens of thousands of people have fled Homs as the Syrian city looks set to become the third to be captured by Islamist-led rebels in another blow for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The rebels, led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), yesterday stormed the nearby city of Hama after fierce fighting, and claimed to have seized its prison and released inmates.
There is a tiny rural township in Ontario, Canada, just over the border from the US state of Minnesota, that glories in the name of Emo. Emo has a population of just 1,300, and until fairly recently was known (though not by many) for its picturesque waterfront park, its annual Rainy River Agricultural Fair and its catch-and-release fishing tournament, the Emo Walleye Classic. It looks idyllic, with simple straggles of wooden houses and vivid verdure bordering the enormous Clearwater Lake.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld on Friday that the US could ban TikTok over concerns with National Security. The law forces the divestment of Chinese company ByteDance from the social media platform.
A healthcare session in honour of Trans Awareness Week was cancelled recently following threats of protests and disruption. Halifax’s local queer co-op, The Glitter Bean Café, says they’re disheartened by the hatred spread online. As Ella MacDonald reports, they’re now brainstorming safety measures for future events.
The assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson has triggered tasteless celebrations and bad taste support for the gunman who killed him.
Mr Thompson was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning by a masked assassin, who remains on the run and whose motive has not been disclosed.
As news of the cold-blooded killing spread, thousands declared they were happy at news of the horrific killing of the 50 year-old father of two and even cooed over the murderer’s apparent good looks.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump.
Seriously, can someone explain to me why everyone is so adverse to protecting the US-Canadian border and is focused on combating tariffs?
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) visited the U.S.-Mexico border to announce plans to create a new port of entry, emphasizing the importance of U.S. trade relations with Mexico.
While funding for the Otay Mesa East Port of Entry, an estimated $798 million project, has yet to be finalized, Newsom said that contractors have already been selected with the plan to break ground in January.
More than a dozen transgender activists, including notorious military intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning, were arrested Thursday after storming a women’s restroom inside the US Capitol complex.
The activists were protesting a new rule unveiled by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) last month requiring individuals to use single-sex facilities that correspond with their biological sex.
A witness who was inside the Melbourne synagogue firebombed before dawn on Friday has recounted fleeing the building to raise the alarm.
Yumi Friedman, founder of business Yumi’s dips, told this masthead he was inside Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, in Melbourne’s inner south-east, with one other person at the time of the attack about 4.10am.
The failed pillow salesman, who has made a name for himself by aggressively calling for taking away American’s Second Amendment rights, appeared on CNN Thursday morning where he addressed the report.
“Well, honestly, I’m considering it because I think that, one, obviously, I think we need a new generation in the DNC, if this election has taught us nothing else,” Hogg said. “I think we need an intergenerational coalition as a party.”
A 10-year-old boy who identifies as a transgender girl expressed that the child’s greatest worry about the public debate over sex changes for minors: being killed. The child made the comments to CNN’s Lucy Kafanov on Wednesday while discussing the US Supreme Court hearing on the validity of a Tennessee statute that bans sex changes for minors.
