Nova Scotia has the highest rate of shoplifting in Canada, according to a National Post analysis of Statistics Canada crime data. British Columbia has the second-highest rate.
In late July, StatCan released its Canadian crime data for 2023. In recent years, as the cost of living has soared, retailers and business organizations have complained about increasingly brazen and damaging bouts of shoplifting.
It could not be more obvious what the judge should do here.
Former president Donald Trump’s defense team has written a letter to Judge Juan Merchan seeking postponement of the scheduled September 18, 2024, sentencing date.
As I’ve explained in recent posts (here and here, and at Fox News here), Judge Merchan has signaled his intention to deny Trump’s pending motion, principally based on the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump v. United States, to vacate the guilty verdicts and dismiss the indictment. On July 1, about a month after the jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of business-records falsification, the Court held in Trump that presidents have at least presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official presidential acts, and absolute immunity for official acts within the president’s core constitutional authorities.
One of the things most associated with Great Britain is the pub culture. Seemingly, every novel has a scene in a pub or tavern where the locals gather, not to carouse or drink themselves into a silent, depressed stupor, but, instead, to come together as a community. It is a watering hole offering beer and whiskey—or, as some might say, the very water of life itself. But the UK’s new Labour government is not on board with this ancient culture. And importantly, it’s not waging a war to fight alcohol abuse; rather, it wants to keep Muslims happy.
ESPN has fired a host who recently voiced opposition to female-identifying men competing in women’s sports.
On Thursday, The Athletic reported that ESPN has terminated the contract of “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Samantha Ponder, a longtime reporter for the network who previously covered college football. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III was also fired by the Disney-owned outlet.
“Pressure is building in Congress for Biden to do more to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza,” he was asked in a 2021 interview as fighting raged to stop Hamas assaults on Israel .
“Hopefully he can use it as leverage to get the Israelis to stop,” Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala’s future Middle East advisor and new ‘liaison’ to the Jewish community, answered.
Could a Kamala administration be any worse for the Jews than the Obama administration?
Not so long ago, I left my phone behind in a taxi late one night. Drink had been taken and it took me a while to notice my loss, by which time the cab in question was many miles away. I phoned my phone more out of form than hope that it wouldn’t already have been re-SIMmed and heading to an exciting new life. To my surprise and delight, a very well-spoken young man picked it up, and invited me to come to collect it the next morning from Walthamstow in east London.
Far-Right thugs weren’t the sole perpetrators
Since the first spark was lit in Southport, condemnation of the rioters has largely centred on their identity as “far-Right thugs”. Indeed, some experts, including the former head of British counter-terrorism policing, have gone as far as to call the rioters terrorists. The headlines wrote themselves. For an outraged-fuelled media, Christmas had come early.
Yet dig a little deeper and things become a tad more nuanced. For all the caustic characterisations thrown the rioters’ way, their motives were far more complex and varied.
Montréal : Bris de conduite majeur dans l’arr Ville Marie. secteur à éviter René-Lévesque et De Lorimier. pic.twitter.com/yYs7yO5Z1o
— Mathieu Wagner (@MWagnerRC) August 16, 2024
Petit glissement de terrain causé par Le Bris d’aqueduc. Photo de mon cell#Montreal pic.twitter.com/Np6T2LqCfN
— Procyon MTL (@olivierfer25801) August 16, 2024
The phrase ‘without fear or favour’ has been much in the news of late. Whether the maxim is still applicable to the British constabulary is a matter of conjecture. Some, like the ex-policeman Harry Miller, have been saying for years that the police ‘have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups’. Miller was visited by Humberside police in January 2020 after he expressed gender-critical views in an online poem. He later won a legal challenge against the police.
Mass immigration has become problematic in every developed nation on earth. Migrants from Islamic nations have been flooding en masse into European and North American countries and they are integrating poorly to say the least. As migrant-based disorder spreads and riots break out, defenders of the status quo are trying to quell all debate by labelling people as “far right” and of course as racists.
Pranjal Singh was looking forward to a summer in Canada to hang out with his older sister, whom he had not seen since she left India to study in Toronto in April 2021.
The last thing the 18-year-old from Delhi had anticipated was being made to file a refugee claim in Canada when he landed in Montreal en route to Toronto on June 23.
“My brother comes from a wealthy family in India. He faces no danger in India,” said his sister Priyanshu Singh, 22, adding that their father owns several shoe factories and multiple properties in India.
Say what? h/t DS
A police sniper potentially saved lives by shooting the rifle of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin and knocking him down, an investigation says.
According to a report by Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins, the sniper’s bullet damaged Thomas Matthew Crooks’s gun and disrupted his aim after he took his first shots in Butler, Pennsylvania. Moments later, a Secret Service sniper killed him.
The report comes as the Secret Service temporarily reassigns some bodyguards from President Joe Biden to Trump, according to US media.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/9WSg58CER8
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 16, 2024
The Canadian government is still calling for an investigation into Israel’s destruction nearly a month ago of a large water facility in an area of the Gaza Strip where Ottawa is known for supporting Palestinians.
The office of the International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says the incident adds to a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation.
“Canada has contacted the Israeli government for more information on this incident and we call for an investigation,” said spokeswoman Olivia Batten.
Hilarious 🤣. Matt Walsh went undercover to an anti-racist support group. They kicked him out and called the police because his presence made them feel unsafe 😂.
Absolutely can’t wait to watch this!
Support the DW. Let’s help make this movie a massive success nationwide!
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 16, 2024
As the Canadian Future Party officially introduced its candidate for the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection on Thursday — a day after the party’s formal launch — questions lingered about voters’ appetite for a new option on the ballot.
Mark Khoury will run for the party in the Montreal riding, while Zbig Strycharzy was added to the ballot Thursday for the Elmwood-Transcona byelection.
Neither of the candidates’ biographies on the Canadian Future Party website mention them having run in any previous election or having any prior political affiliations.
