Canadian Hells Angels members implicated in U.S. case against Iran for assassination attempts on U.S. soil

U.S. prosecutors allege that the government of Iran recruited two Canadian men associated with the Hells Angels to assassinate Iranian defectors in Maryland as part of an international scheme meant to silence dissidents abroad.

A federal indictment unsealed on Monday says that Naji Sharifi Zindashti, an Iranian drug trafficker operating under the orders of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, recruited Damion Patrick John Ryan, 43, a Canadian full-patch member of the Hells Angels, to carry out a hit on two Iranians in Maryland in December of 2020. Mr. Ryan in turn hired Adam Richard Pearson, 29, a Canadian Hells Angels affiliate then living illegally in Minnesota, to carry out the plot, prosecutors say.

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Alzheimer’s passed to patients from corpses

Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time.

Five people are believed to have developed Alzheimer’s after they were treated with a human growth hormone which inadvertently contained the seeds of dementia.

The tainted hormone was given to more than 1,800 children of short stature in the UK between 1959 and 1995 before being withdrawn when it was shown to trigger Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

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Brampton man caught driving beer in hand 20 minutes after earning license

The “dumb criminals” phenomenon has surely crossed the computer or phone screen of anyone who has spent even a scintilla of time on the internet — but we think this story out of the Brampton, Ontario area, north of Toronto, takes the concept to a different plane altogether. According to Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers in the Caledon area, early January a 25-year-old motorist allegedly opened a beer in-car to commemorate having just passed his G2 license exam 20 minutes prior.

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There’s no formal mechanism to make Trudeau face a leadership review — even if MPs wanted one

Last week, Liberal MP Ken McDonald walked back comments suggesting he would like to see the Liberal Party consider a leadership review of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

But even if a substantial number of Liberal MPs wanted such a review, there’s no formal way to make it happen — not while Trudeau is prime minister.

The Liberal Party doesn’t have a leadership review mechanism built into its constitution. It does allow for “leadership endorsement” ballots, which allow registered Liberals to vote on whether they still support the current leader.

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Kate Middleton returns home after 14 day hospital stay

Kate Middleton returned home today after a two-week stay in hospital following abdominal surgery – with flowers and a gift bag left by wellwishers driven back to Windsor by a royal aide.

The Princess of Wales, 42, is not expected to carry out official engagements until after Easter, with her husband Prince William clearing his diary of official duties as she recovers at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Great Park.

Kate went into The London Clinic 14 days ago on Tuesday, January 16 – with royal sources saying she was ‘making good progress’ and would now continue her recovery from home.

This sounds much more serious than we know.

h/t Mauser

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Humiliation: SNL Writers Don‘t Know What ‘De-Banking‘ Is — Weekend Update Mocks Trump‘s Vow to Fight It

Dumb.

NBC’s Saturday Night Live ended up with egg on its face when “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost attempted to make fun of former President Donald Trump for using the word “de-bank” — a well-known financial term used to describe the denial of financial services to political dissidents, frequently at the behest of the government.

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B.C. premier apologizes after social media mistake on Holocaust Remembrance Day

British Columbia’s premier has apologized after he says a member of his staff posted an incorrect message in social media posts linking to his statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday.

David Eby says on the social media platform X that the mistake was noticed immediately and removed, “but it should not have occurred.”

h/t Sweetpea

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Jack Mintz: Canada’s EV strategy has cost $4 million a job

With Canadian GDP per capita dropping like a stone, what would you expect our minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, to say last week at the elite Davos confab? “Come to Canada! We have $135 billion to give you!” is what she did say. Given our poor investment performance, it seems the only way to attract capital is to offer billions of tax dollars to foreign multinationals.

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