Cocaine trafficking sentence cut in half for Jamaican facing deportation from Canada

An Ontario judge cut the sentence in half for a Black cocaine trafficker from Jamaica facing “a significant likelihood of deportation” because he’s already serving a six-year prison sentence in Canada for trafficking in fentanyl and gun-related offences.

Police caught Roosevelt Rush, a 32-year-old who was living in Brampton, with 55 grams of cocaine after he was released from custody on bail in December 2022 before sentencing took place for his fentanyl trafficking and gun convictions. The Ontario Court of Justice heard Rush was wearing a GPS monitoring device when authorities tracked him to Belleville, where he was caught with the cocaine.

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Why are so many US States banning cloud seeding?

THE first few months of the year saw a sharp rise in the number of US states considering proposals to ban solar geoengineering, including cloud seeding as well as solar radiation management. As we’ve previously reported, Tennessee was the first state to adopt a ban (in April 2024), signed into law by Republican Governor Bill Lee. The legislation ‘prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight‘.

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He Shot the Man Who Raped His Teenage Daughter – Now He’s Facing a Murder Charge

Aaron and Heather Spencer’s nightmare began in the Spring of 2024 in Lonoke County, Arkansas, when they learned that a 67-year-old man had been sexually abusing their 13-year-old daughter.

At the time, the child had “spent more days than not helping care for her dying grandpa,” according to a Facebook post Heather wrote. The parents had decided to give her some free time. She was targeted by a man “old enough to be my father” who began grooming the daughter through text messages.

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Doug Ford says he threatened Home Depot shoplifter with ‘a beating’

Premier Doug Ford said he personally stopped a shoplifter at a Home Depot in July and warned him he would “kick your ass all over the parking lot” if he tried to flee.

Speaking to more than 1,000 people at an Empire Club of Canada luncheon Tuesday, Ford startled his audience by recounting the incident when he went to buy plants to prepare his Muskoka cottage for a visit from Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“I escape from my (OPP security) detail at 8 a.m. … before they come — it ticks them off. I hop in my pickup and I want to go to Home Depot, it was on a Saturday and I wanted to get some plants … it was the weekend before the prime minister came,” the premier told broadcaster Ben Mulroney.

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No planes available: PM Carney charters private jet to Egypt for historic Mideast peace summit

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was forced to take a charter flight to Egypt for the historic signing of an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war because there were no air crews available to fly a Canadian Armed Forces jet.

The trip to Sharm-el-Sheikh was planned on short notice and the CAF members who usually crew flights on the Airbus passenger jets or smaller Challenger jets were deployed elsewhere, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.


It was cheaper than flying a Forces Airbus so there’s that, but Carney had no business there anyway other than as a prop for Trump.

h/t Mauser and Patti Jo

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