Pittsburgh synagogue gunman found eligible for death penalty

A jury has found a gunman who murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue is eligible for the death penalty.

Robert Bowers, 50, was found guilty last month for the October 2018 attack.

This was the second stage of the trial. It now moves on to its final phase, sentencing selection.

The same jury will have to decide if Bowers should receive life in prison or be sentenced to death for carrying out the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

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Pakistan: Kidnapping, Forced Marriages, Forced Conversion

Muslims burn churches in Pakistan

Imagine if you are a child from a persecuted religious minority living in one of the world’s most oppressive countries. The country’s majority culture and institutions are largely shaped by a religious ideology that has no regard for anything outside that system, as well as a record of mistreating women and girls.

Every day you run the risk of being kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, raped, and coerced into a “marriage” with an older or elderly man. This is what takes place often in Islamic Pakistan. The victims are Christian and Hindu women and children.

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Tackling refugee crisis in Toronto on the agenda as Mayor Olivia Chow begins first full day in office


“I’ll be meeting my chief of staff of course and getting a briefing on TTC, meeting some councillors, doing some paperwork, and really looking at the crisis that we’re facing right now in the streets, these refugees having no place,” Chow told CP24 in an interview early Thursday. “And as you know, it was pouring rain out there last night and this morning. If you have no shelter, no roof over your head with a soaking wet cardboard, oh my god it’s a miserable life. So it’s tough. So that is a crisis that I want to deal with today.”

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Biden Trashes The Constitution To Muzzle His Critics

Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty calls “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense. Count on it to go nowhere. Biden’s been caught red-handed violating the U.S. Constitution.

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CBC paints ‘Sound of Freedom’ as “a dog-whistle for Xenophobic, Pro-Life types”

In a recent interview on CBC Radio, pop culture columnist Radheyan Simonpillai described the success of the new hit film “Sound of Freedom” can be attributed to “Xenophobic, Pro-Trump, Pro-Life types.”

The film, which has sold-out shows across the United States and Canada, is about former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard who founded Operation Underground Railroad in order to take down child trafficking rings in South America.

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‘Is This War?’ France Reaches a Turning Point, as Polls Show Marine Le Pen More Likely To Be Trusted Than Other Leaders, Right or Left

Montargis, 15,000 inhabitants, 68 miles south of Paris, will refuse on Friday to celebrate the National Holiday of France, Bastille Day — no fireworks, no street balls. Instead, a brief ceremony will take place to thank the police forces and the fire brigade who rescued the town two weeks ago.

“Three hundred thugs, coming out of nowhere, stormed the inner city. They burned several houses to the ground,” Mayor Benoît Digeon said. “The population had to be evacuated to safer areas.”

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Liberals ‘resettling’ asylum seekers by dumping them on the pavement

Just a few weeks ago, on World Refugee Day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trumpeted his government’s commitment to refugees. In a statement , he said, “Everyone deserves a safe place to call home … And Canada is stepping up: In 2022, for the fourth year in a row, we were the top country in the world to resettle refugees.”

He concluded it with, “Today, we come together as Canadians to keep our country a welcoming place and help build a safer world for everyone.”

Chow and Trudeau seem made for each other.

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