How an undercover Toronto cop secured a murder confession from an 18-year-old — over ‘chit chat’ about makeup, nails and boys

While talking about nails — by way of eye shadow, boys and her frustrating mother — Brianna Warner confessed to murder.

It was a huge get for Toronto police, one that was months in the making.

While the 18-year-old Warner had emerged as a person of interest in the December 2022 shooting of 20-year-old Jai Parker-Ford, investigators weren’t quite ready to charge her.


She seems all too common a monster.

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Where is the money to replace Canada’s aging submarines? It wasn’t in the 2025 federal budget

Prime Minister Mark Carney has now climbed into two submarines on two continents – one on a production line in Germany, the other in the water in South Korea – yet the 2025 federal budget, which allocated more than $80 billion toward defence, made no mention of funding towards the much-needed vessels.

The Royal Canadian Navy is in the market to buy 12 conventional diesel-electric powered submarines and the federal government has narrowed the competition to two companies: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and Hanwha Ocean.

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Ostriches Executed for No Good Reason

On Friday, “professional marksmen” in Canada gunned down almost 400 ostriches. Birds that were clearly disease free; just more victims of the Canadian government’s totalitarian overreach. Deja vu- “the truckers rally.”

As most of you know, Robert and I have a soft spot for ratites, which is the family of flightless birds that lack a sternal keel (as did dinosaurs) that ostriches belong to. In fact, our pet emu is another member of that ancient lineage of birds. There are only five groups of ratites left in the world (ostriches, emus, kiwis, cassowaries, and Rheas). They have a special place in the animal kingdom. Ratites may be the closest living relatives to the dinosaurs and truly are fascinating.

h/t SC and Auntie Polly

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WTF?

Hmmm …

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Chicago Mayor Urges UN To Investigate What He Says Are Human Rights Violations in America

Brandon Johnson – Loves Looting

Chicago’s mayor is urging the U.N. Human Rights Council – a body whose members include notorious abusers such as China, Cuba, Russia, and Qatar – to investigate what he describes as a “worsening human rights crisis” in America under the Trump administration.

The United States, meanwhile, on Friday became only the second country ever to refuse to cooperate with a routine review of its rights record by the council, which the Trump administration has accused of a “deep anti-American bias” and a disproportionate focus on Israel.

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Drug User Liberation Front founders convicted of drug trafficking

The two founders of a Vancouver “compassion club,” that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to drug users in the Downtown Eastside, have been convicted of drug trafficking charges.

Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx founded the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in 2022 to provide uncontaminated drugs to people who would otherwise be at the mercy of an illicit supply tainted with potentially deadly fentanyl and benzodiazepines.

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Canadians feel optimistic about their personal lives, but pessimistic about the country, poll finds

WTF?

Canadians have a quite glum view of the near future for Canada’s social and economic situation, with only one person in four expressing optimism and significantly more expressing pessimism, but Canadians’ views of their own personal fortunes are much rosier, according to a new polling project.

This strange divergence of attitudes — happy about home, gloomy about country — is also driven by geographical differences, and by a clear partisan split between pessimistic Conservative supporters and optimistic Liberals.

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