Assault-style firearm definition draws applause from gun-control group, ire of Conservatives

OTTAWA – The Liberal government prompted applause and anger on Tuesday by proposing an evergreen definition of a prohibited assault-style firearm for inclusion in gun-control legislation being studied by a House of Commons committee.

The measure, introduced during clause-by-clause review of the bill, responds to pleas from advocates of tougher gun laws who want a definition enshrined in law. It would build on a federal regulatory ban of many types of firearms two years ago.


More… C-21 amended to include semi auto ban

Today the Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition government broke the glass on a typical Liberal distraction tool – gun bans. With Canadians reeling from a failed economy, tripling of taxes looming, 1.5M Canadians using foodbanks, hospitals overwhelmed with sick children who can’t even get Tylenol, Chinese interference in elections and of course a terrible showing at the Public Order Emergency Commission, the Liberals needed the media and Canadians in general talking about something other than their failures.

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Oops … There goes the narrative: Colorado Club Q shooting suspect is non-binary, uses ‘they/them’ pronouns: attorneys

Attorneys for Anderson Lee Aldrich, the individual charged with 5 counts of murder and 5 hate crimes, have said that Aldrich is “non-binary” and uses “they/them” pronouns.

Aldrich is accused of engaging in a mass shooting at Colorado Springs nightclub Club Q, killing 5 and wounding more than 17. Aldrich is being represented by public defenders.

 

But he internalized the white man’s racism and transphobia or something so it’s still your fault.

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Suspect held after 4 Chinese nationals killed at US cannabis farm

A suspect has been held in the killings of four Chinese nationals on Sunday at a rural marijuana farm in the US state of Oklahoma, investigators say.

Wu Chen, 45, was arrested on Tuesday 1,500 miles (2,400km) away in Florida, said law enforcement officials.

The bodies were found after police received a call of a hostage situation near the town of Hennessey, 55 miles north of Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma allows medical cannabis. It is unclear if the farm was licensed.

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Elections Canada chief not aware of Chinese election interference allegations

Canada’s top elections officer says he wasn’t aware of allegations of Chinese interference in the 2019 election prior to seeing reports about it on the news.

Testifying before the standing committee on procedure and house affairs on Tuesday, Elections Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault told committee members he wasn’t aware of the allegations — made last month in a report by Global News — until reading about it.

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‘Irresponsible populist nonsense’: Addictions minister calls out Poilievre over drug policy

OTTAWA – Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments about safe drug consumptions sites are “irresponsible” and “misguided.”

Her comments come after Poilievre released a video Sunday titled “Everything feels broken,” in which he says safe consumptions programs need to be defunded, because they lead to “massive” increases in overdoses and crimes.


Looks like BC has had enough Carolyn.

B.C. pushes back against ‘failed’ homeless and addiction policies

Even left-wing politicians are breaking with strategies that prioritized harm reduction above all else

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York Police Say All Seizures of Guns Used in Violent Crime Whose Origins Were Traced Came From US

According to “Guns, Gangs, and Violence,” a new police report by York Regional Police in Ontario, 100 percent of seized guns whose origin could be traced were found to be illegally smuggled into Canada from the United States.

In presenting the report to the York Regional Police Services Board on Nov. 7, Inspector Ahmad Salhia said that the Liberal government’s handgun freeze with Bill C-21 is not targeting the smuggling of illegal weapons into the country.

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Workers at Canadian Tire factories overseas paid poverty wages, labour groups allege

Canadian labour groups have filed a complaint with a federal corporate watchdog saying Canadian Tire failed to ensure workers in its South Asian supplier factories are paid a living wage.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the United Steelworkers Union filed the complaint with the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise on Monday.

They allege that workers in Bangladeshi garment factories that supply Canadian Tire subsidiary Mark’s with clothing sold under brand names like Wind River, Denver Hayes, Dakota and Helly Hansen are paid poverty-level wages.

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At least seven dead after ‘manager’ opens fire in Virginia Walmart

Seven people were killed at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday night in a shooting rampage that an employee claimed was carried out by a store manager who then turned the gun on himself.

Officers responded about 10:15 p.m. to a report of a shooting at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake, where they found multiple dead people and injured, police said.

The city said in a tweet at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday that there were seven fatalities, including the shooter.

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Ukraine’s security service raids Russian-backed monastery in Kyiv

Ukraine’s SBU security service and police have raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”.

Located south of the city centre, the sprawling Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex – or Kyiv Monastery of the Caves – is the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox church that falls under the Moscow patriarchate, as well as being a Ukrainian cultural treasure and a Unesco World Heritage site.

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Meanwhile in Mexico …

Dog carrying severed hand leads to discovery of 53 bags of human remains in Mexico’s most violent state

The sight of a dog running through town with a severed hand in its mouth led to a gruesome discovery in Mexico — 53 buried bags filled with human remains.

The sickening cache of decaying bodies was found in late October during a festival called El Cervantino in Guanajato, a violent state ravaged by drug cartel murders, according to Agence French-Presse.

Desperate people rushed to the burial site in the town of Irapuato after seeing the dog with the exhumed hand, and started looking for signs of their lost loved one — even as music from the nearby celebration could be heard in the background.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, senior staff, parents bought Bahamas property worth $300 mln

NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought at least 19 properties worth nearly $121 million in the Bahamas over the past two years, official property records show.

Separately, attorneys for FTX said on Tuesday that one of the company’s units spent $300 million in the Bahamas buying homes and vacation properties for its senior staff, and that FTX was run as a “personal fiefdom” of Bankman-Fried. No further details were given.

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Woke University of Chicago professor postpones class called ‘The Problem of WHITENESS’ after it was branded racist by conservative critics

A University of Chicago teacher has been forced to postpone a class called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ after she received death threats.

Rebecca Journey was set to teach the woke class, where students would ‘analyze whiteness as a social construct.’

She dismissed claims that the session would stoke ‘anti-white hatred’ calling the criticism ‘disingenuous’.

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Fauci’s final press briefing devolves into chaos as he’s pressed on COVID record

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force head, ignored numerous questions from reporters Tuesday about his personal role in investigating the origins of COVID-19.

Fauci and Dr. Ashish Jha, Biden’s current top COVID-19 adviser, joined White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Tuesday’s briefing, Fauci’s final appearance in the briefing room before retiring next month.

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