What in the unchecked mental illness pic.twitter.com/AUglQWApMg
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 28, 2022
Amir Abdulrahman sentenced to five years for death of Calgary police officer
The passenger in the SUV which dragged Calgary police Sgt. Andrew Harnett to his death during a routine New Year’s Eve traffic stop in 2020 was handed a five-year prison term Friday.
Amir Abdulrahman, 20, pleaded guilty in December to a reduced charge of manslaughter in connection with the New Year’s Eve death of Harnett, who was dragged more than 400 metres along the side of a vehicle he’d pulled over for inadequate headlights. Abdulrahman had been charged with first-degree murder.
Halyna Hutchins’ estate edges closer to filing wrongful death lawsuit in ‘Rust’ shooting
Halyna Hutchins’ family is one step closer to filing a wrongful death lawsuit after the cinematographer was shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” last October, court records show.
A Sante Fe, New Mexico, attorney filed a petition Wednesday asking the court to appoint her as the personal representative of Hutchins’ estate “solely for the purpose of investigating and pursuing a lawsuit under the New Mexico Wrongful Death Act,” the records show.
British ‘hitman’ found guilty of plotting to kill Pakistani activist
A British “hitman” has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands.
A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year.
However he failed to track his target down, and was arrested on his return to the UK.
Now a jury has given a unanimous guilty verdict of conspiracy to murder and he is set be sentenced in March.
The Houthis Belong on the Terrorist List: The ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Manipulation
The U.S. and the international community can no longer ignore or reward the malign behavior of Iran or the Houthis.
International pressure is growing to redesignate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), but pushback is emerging from humanitarian groups who fear it could exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The concerns of these groups are not unfounded, but failure to relist the Houthis will not address the underlying, root cause of the issue — Iran’s destabilizing effects on the Middle East executed in concert with its terrorist proxies, which include the Houthis.
There’s a New Omicron Subvariant. Denmark Explains Its Experience with the Mutation So Far.
“There is some indication that it is more contagious, especially for the unvaccinated, but that it can also infect people who have been vaccinated to a greater extent,” said SSI’s technical director, Tyra Grove Krause, according to Reuters.
Omicron subvariant BA.2 being watched ‘very closely’ in Canada: Tam
Canada’s top doctor says the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has detected more than 100 cases of a new Omicron subvariant known as BA.2, doubling the number of infections from the virus lineage that were reported earlier this week.
Dr. Theresa Tam said during Friday’s federal COVID-19 update that the BA.2 subvariant was first detected in Canada in November 2021, and has since been “closely” monitored by experts.
CBC style.Police on guard against ‘lone wolf individuals’ as protest convoy arrives in Ottawa
Ottawa’s police chief says officials are on guard against “social media actors” and “lone wolf individuals” who might try to infiltrate this weekend’s convoy protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Members of a protest organizers call the Freedom Convoy steadily streamed into the nation’s capital Friday as various groups from across the country prepared to rally against the federal government’s vaccination mandate for all cross-border drivers, which came into effect earlier this month.
At least hundreds more were expected throughout the day and over the weekend, and Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly says authorities weren’t sure how large the rally would be.
Microaggression: ‘Lia Thomas’ lets it all hang out in locker room
‘We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room.’ Lia Thomas’ UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn’t always cover up her male genitals when changing and their concerns go ignored by their coach
Sharing a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has become a point of contention for some of her University of Pennsylvania teammates, who feel uncomfortable changing in the private space with someone undergoing gender transition, the DailyMail.com can reveal.
‘It’s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,’ one swimmer on the team told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.
h/t RM
Palestinians vent against Hamas in rare online event
Hundreds of Palestinian activists have been taking part in a rare online event strongly criticising Hamas governance of the Gaza Strip.
They Kidnapped Gaza began as an audio discussion on Twitter on Thursday.
“Imagine your one-month-old son dies because of the cold. Imagine your son dying because there is no electricity, no money, no wages and no home,” said Mahmoud Nashwan.
“Injustice will fall and every oppressor will fall,” added the 32-year-old engineer from Gaza, who now lives in Belgium.
Convoy Coverage
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— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) January 28, 2022
Breathless Guardianistas Warn Truckers Seek Government Overthrow!
Canada truckers’ vaccine protest spirals into calls to repeal all public health rules
A convoy of truckers and their supporters is set to converge on the Canadian capital in a protest which has spiralled from frustrations over vaccine mandates into calls for the repeal of all public health measures – and even the overthrow of the federal government.
Police arrest women’s rights activist on suspicion of ‘hate crimes’ after she put up posters about protecting single-sex prisons
A women’s rights campaigner who put up stickers and posters in Newport, Wales, has been arrested by police for ‘criminal damage’ and ‘abusive writing’ after people allegedly complained that her posters carried an ‘anti-transgender message’.
Jennifer Swayne, 53, was arrested on Sunday afternoon and detained until the early hours of the morning, while police officers executed a search warrant on her property and confiscated women’s rights stickers and a book containing a collection of critical essays about the theory and practice of transgendering children.
GG’s office paid $277,000 in secret settlements the year Julie Payette resigned
OTTAWA – Rideau Hall paid out $277,592 in confidential settlements as well as running up legal bills of nearly $170,000 in the same year former governor general Julie Payette resigned for presiding over a “toxic” workplace.
Zelensky rebukes Western ‘panic’ over Russia invasion fear after Biden call
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed concerns of the US and its NATO allies about a Russian invasion Friday, accusing them of creating a “panic” and insisting that he knows the situation in his own country.
“Do we have tanks on the streets?” Zelensky asked reporters during a news conference. “No. When you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city, people fleeing … That’s not the case.”
Joe ain’t in charge.
CNN Tries to Memory-Hole Ukraine President Telling Biden to ‘Calm Down’
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly told President Joe Biden to “calm down” and corrected him about Russian forces Biden believed were ready to “sack” Kyiv, according to a report CNN apparently tried to hide.
German intelligence chief: Russia has not decided whether to attack Ukraine
Russia has not yet decided whether to attack Ukraine but is prepared to do so, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has said, amid soaring tensions about the Kremlin-ordered military buildup.
“I believe that the decision to attack has not yet been made,” Bruno Kahl told Reuters.
The German assessment comes after the US president, Joe Biden, told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on Thursday there was “a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February”, according to a national security council spokesperson.