The mass shooter who murdered seven people at a July 4 parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park pleaded guilty to the killings on Monday.
Robert Crimo, 23, withdrew his earlier not-guilty plea in a Lake County circuit courtroom; he admitted to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb.
It was a stunning development moments before opening arguments in his trial on charges of murder and attempted murder.
With campaign volunteer numbers declining in each successive election and the next election fast approaching, some Conservative and Liberal candidates and MPs are currently in the process of hiring paid canvassers.
“It’s been proven time and time again…,” reads one recruitment email sent out recently to potential paid election canvassers by political strategy firm Right Recruiter, which is owned by veteran Conservative insider Steve Outhouse. “Knocking on doors and speaking to voters face to face wins campaigns. That’s why, with the federal election just around the corner, we are in need of committed campaigners to help support Conservative candidates!”
Here’s your hat and what’s your hurry?
KJ Smith: Due to the political climate, blacks as a whole should consider moving back to Africa pic.twitter.com/Zssgkmwt2i
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 2, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has a talent for stirring the pot, and he’s done so in two countries with repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st American state. Of course, making Canada one state is hardly fair — each province should get its own star on the flag if we’re going to move in that direction. But there’s no good reason to go down that path at all, given most Canadians’ rejection of the idea, and the havoc it would play with the fraught political balance in the United States. Besides, it’s likely that both Canada and the U.S are too big and too centralized as it is.
KYIV, Ukraine — WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday for suggesting that the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine is still likely “very, very far away.”
“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
BREAKING: President Trump just went NUCLEAR on Zelensky and Europe on Truth Social.
“This guy doesn’t want Peace and America will NOT put up with it for much longer!”
— Cillian (@CilComLFC) March 3, 2025
Stephen Harper is lashing out at Mark Carney saying the Liberal leadership hopeful is taking credit for work he didn’t do. In a fundraising letter to Conservative Party members, Harper writes that Carney’s “experience” isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
Swedish police are investigating a suspected sabotage incident on a water pump on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Police told the BBC that the local government’s water unit received an alarm for a water pump on Sunday at 17:30 local time (16:30 GMT).
“Technicians found that someone has opened an electrical cabinet, pulled out a cable and thereby cut off the power to the pump,” police said. The technician put the cable back and reset the alarm at 21:30 local time, and the pump is now working.
Looks like Dahlia has overturned another rock to reveal the slithering beneath. @fancypants_s https://t.co/S8TtvDqL8n
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 3, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Municipalities, rights groups concerned about Quebec bill on integrating immigrants
MONTREAL — Quebec municipalities and human rights groups are voicing concerns about proposed legislation that would require newcomers to abide by a set of common values.
They say the new bill on cultural integration could foster anti-immigrant sentiment and impose a heavy administrative burden on communities.
The bill, tabled in January by Quebec’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec government, would have immigrants adhere to shared values including gender equality, secularism and protection of the French language. The legislation is the latest in a series of bills that aim to reinforce Quebec identity, following the province’s secularism law and its overhaul of the language law.
Donald Trump could cut off the taps to Ukraine as he discusses cancelling military aid to the war-torn country during a meeting with his key advisers.
The president will meet with senior advisers, including Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, to consider a range of options, including cancelling aid that has already been approved and funded by the Biden administration, the New York Times reported.
The meeting follows a shouting match between Volodymyr Zelensky and Mr Trump in the Oval Office on Friday.
Poilievre …
Poilievre breaks his silence on Trump & Zelenskyy
Poilievre: If had sold our natural resources to we would have:
Defunded Putin’s war machine
Lowered energy costs for
Created thousands of jobs forInstead, Trudeau & Carney killed pipelines & helped Putin get richer pic.twitter.com/0VTi3Aym58
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) March 2, 2025
As Donald Trump has raged, Canada has reacted.
In December, the federal government pledged an additional $1.3-billion to combat fentanyl trafficking, with increased border security measures that include drones, Black Hawk helicopters and mobile surveillance towers.
In February, Ottawa appointed its first ever “fentanyl czar,” longtime senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau, to oversee our fight against the deadly synthetic opioid.
If so he’s done something that will make junior’s Beijing bosses happy.
They must need mops to clean up the mouth froth from the floor at the Star.
Anybody who watched the entire Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would know that it was not an “ambush” or a “setup” by Trump, as characterized by Democrats and malign media entities.
It was the opposite. If anyone came to that meeting in bad faith, it was clearly Zelensky, whose body language and attitude was negative from the start. Trump could not have been more cordial, having steered the complex negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to a first step where he believed peace was a real possibility.
Karoline Leavitt just SCORCHED Zelensky
“What happened in the Oval Office… was, unfortunately, President Zelenskyy came in with a mindset not wanting to negotiate peace. Zelenskyy was also antagonistic, and frankly, he was rude…”pic.twitter.com/rvmg7IgxaU
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 2, 2025
Did Zelensky already have a deal with Starmer for Ukraine’s minerals?
You are saying Zelensky had already signed 100 year deal with Starmer for minerals before going to Washington to sign the same deal with Trump and the USA. This is would be why he was being so cagey with American representatives abt the agreement.
It was a set up on the UK EU… pic.twitter.com/Hjs0lzfc5V— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) March 3, 2025
There is a battle of two narratives – one, false, that Donald J. Trump set up Zelenskyy for the confrontation and we should be outraged. The other, true, that Zelenskyy, the UK and EU were playing the US because the British had already signed a deal that provided Ukraine…
— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) March 2, 2025
The Government of Canada is funding a Somali Center in Toronto to the tune of 20 MILLION dollars.
Meanwhile 80,000 people are homeless in the freezing cold in Ontario.
How do you feel about this? https://t.co/GfTbrEtUoC
— Bruce (@bruce_barrett) March 2, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
King Charles has met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under the shadow of inflammatory statements made about Canada by US President Donald Trump.
Trump has repeatedly spoken of making the neighbouring country the 51st state of America. He has also vowed to impose new import taxes on Canada, which is one of his top trading partners.
Speaking ahead of his meeting with the King at Sandringham, outgoing PM Trudeau said he would discuss issues of importance to Canadians, including “standing up for our sovereignty and our independence as a nation”.
The King has also extended an invitation to Trump to visit him in what will be an unprecedented second state visit.
Charles won’t even stand up for his own people, then again neither does Trudeau. They have their submission to Islam in common.
Mannheim – Another attack in Germany? As BILD learned from security circles, two people were killed and several others were seriously injured in an incident in Mannheim.
Viele schwer verletzte Menschen nach Amokfahrt Anschlag in der Innenstadt von #Mannheim.
Ein Auto ist durch die Stadt gerast und hat mehrere Menschen überfahren.
Es werden Menschen reanimiert.
Eine Schande.
Wann wachen die Menschen auf?#Terror pic.twitter.com/kZUpkzoVOT— Mahnender Bär (@mahnenderbaer) March 3, 2025
⚠️A potential terror attack⚠️ has occurred in #Mannheim, #Germany, where a man drove a car into a crowd at Paradeplatz.
Police are actively chasing the suspect, and special forces have been deployed. Multiple police squads are responding to the situation in the city centre. pic.twitter.com/pqQ4p889aG
— Saikiran Kannan | 赛基兰坎南 (@saikirankannan) March 3, 2025
Details are sketchy, perp arrested no ID provided.
From the Daily Mail … Car smashes into crowd of pedestrians in Mannheim leaving ‘two dead and 25 injured’
A car has driven into a crowd of people in the western German city of Mannheim, leaving two dead and at least 25 injured, local media reports.
Police confirmed that a suspect had been identified and arrested this afternoon, but added that ‘no further, reliable information can currently be released’.
Update: Perpetrator is being described as “German” and having Dark skin. Bear in mind we have little to go on at this time.
