The diary of a teenage sicario: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’

Twelve-year-old Andrés Camilo Romaña had spent most of his young life collecting rubbish in the poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of Quibdó in Colombia’s Pacific coastal region of Chocó.

He did not like school because he was frequently bullied. Instead, he preferred to endure the unrelenting humidity of the city, roaming its streets and sifting through bins for anything of value.

“He was a good boy. He worked hard,” his mother, Jacinta Romaña, told The Telegraph. “He was never tempted by the easy money of gangs and violence.”

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Defense Secretary Austin Scandal Is Even Worse Than We Thought

When it was first reported on Saturday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been in the hospital since January 1, it was natural to assume that key figures in the Pentagon and the White House, for whatever reason, chose to keep his hospitalization a secret. What possible motive could there be for doing this? Who knows? It didn’t make a lot of sense, but the Biden administration has an extensive record of covering up scandals, so it wasn’t exactly out of character for the Biden administration to cover something up.

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Wall Street-backed landlord buys 264 Las Vegas homes in $98M deal – even though Sin City has nation’s worst housing shortage – as study shows corporate sharks could own FORTY percent of all US homes by 2030

Levittown – Vintage photos that show what life was like in America’s first suburb in the ’50s

A Wall Street-backed corporate landlord snapped up hundreds of homes in Las Vegas in a mammoth one-off residential sale last summer.

Dallas-based Invitation Homes shelled out $98 million to buy 264 homes in Clark County, property records show.

The deal forms part of a $650 million swap of a portfolio of close to 1,900 single-family rental homes between billionaire Barry Sternlicht’s private equity fund Starwood Capital and Invitation Homes.

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Video of Toronto cops delivering coffee to anti-Israel protestors sparks outrage

Facing mounting criticism for an alleged tolerance of a series of road-closing anti-Israel protests, Toronto police members have sparked renewed outrage thanks to a video showing them delivering coffee to said protestors.

Posted to social media platform ‘X’ at 2 p.m. on Saturday by Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d, the video shows a Toronto police constable — his face concealed behind a black neck gaiter — delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee and a stack of cups — to anti-Israel protestors occupying the closed Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401.

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FOURNIER: Canadian pathologists stumped by explosive growth in deaths from unknown causes

Statistics Canada has a talent for reporting deaths with numbing precision, but in such a way that makes it hard to know what’s really going on. Perhaps it’s just me but for example, if 16,043 people out of 334,623 are recorded as having died of unspecified ‘unknown causes,’ I’m sure they’re right. But take a look at the chart below.

H/T XC

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Michel Maisonneuve: Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world — and it’s our own fault

The relative peace we have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War has never been as challenged as it is today, and Canada, once a reasonably formidable player on the international stage, has no role in shaping the world’s uncertain future. Our military and diplomatic capabilities have been permitted to diminish, and major voices in both defence and business have taken to warning the rest of us of the consequences.

Perrin Beatty, former minister of national defence and current CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, decried the woeful state of Canada’s presence on the world stage last weekend in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This was not Beatty’s first public plea to end the government’s complacency and take defence seriously. In 1987, as minister of defence, he tabled a white paper proposing to rearm the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), increase funding and add nuclear submarines to the fleet. His idea was good then and it is good now.

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Time to rid the city of the Hamas supporters on the Toronto Police Force

This is a sick joke.

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TPS delivers coffee to Hamas supporters

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Canada betrays US by failing to list the IRGC as terrorist group

Friendship between nations is based on shared values and mutual interests. But a friend that fails to show up when it matters is no friend at all.

This is the situation that the United States finds itself in with the Trudeau government in Canada. In March 2023, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Ottawa and issued a joint statement in which they stated that both leaders’ “highest priority is to protect our citizens and our sovereign territory.” They named specific areas of cooperation, such as in combating violent extremism and cybersecurity.

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