-- "The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi announced the Ukrainian military shot down two Russian planes over Kyiv on Monday, March 7, at 8:30pm and 9:10pm." --
-- "Russia has suffered 'heavy losses', including the deaths of two high ranking commanders, as Ukrainian forces recaptured a key city." --
HALIFAX — The girlfriend of a gunman who carried out a mass shooting in Nova Scotia has renounced any claim on his estate, initially valued at more than $1.2 million.
The woman — whom police have referred to as the gunman’s common law spouse — was named as the sole heir and executor of his estate.
PARIS — French 24-hour news channel BFM TV has apologised for playing the song "I Shot the Sheriff" after police shot dead Cherif Chekkat, the suspect behind an attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg that killed four people.**********
BERLIN (AP) – "German police say three women have been stabbed and wounded in the city of Nuremberg in a four hour period, and they are investigating whether the incidents are connected."
OTTAWA - Former Conservative MP Tony Clement says he has engaged in more than one inappropriate online exchange. In a letter to constituents posted on his website Clement says the exchanges led to multiple acts of infidelity.Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
Scheer said PC members hold each other to the highest standards but “these types of things” can happen.Really, Andy? Do tell.
"Authorities in southern Mexico disarmed and placed under investigation the entire police force in the once-glittering resort of Acapulco on Tuesday. Officials in Guerrero state issued arrest warrants for two top Acapulco police commanders, accusing them of homicide."It gets better... by which I mean worse...
"The rest of the police officers were stripped of their guns, radios and bullet-proof vests."
MEXICO CITY - Feb 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's armored-car makers predict 2007 will be a record year, their business boosted by reports of severed heads and heavily armed drug gangs murdering police.And...
MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors and soldiers raided a local police force in central Mexico and found a strange thing: 113 of the 185 officers weren't policemen at all.And again...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The top prosecutor in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz confirmed Tuesday that more than 250 skulls have been found in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.
Is it spelled "mumu" or "moo moo?" Seriously... is this who should be President of the United States?"The necklace looked very similar to the Life Alert emergency device made famous for the 'I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!' commercials."
Chief Manley said Conditt did not mention terrorism or hate, but described the recording as an "outcry of a very challenged young man."Well, then... the two dead and four maimed... I blame Donald Trump and the NRA.
"A 20-year-old man has been cleared of murdering a trespasser in his home by stabbing him with half a garden shears. It was the first murder case defended under the Defence and the Dwelling Act, a law that gave latitude to homeowners protecting their property."♫ "Gypsies, tramps and thieves..." ♫
Barrington Macpherson was the innocent victim of a drive by shooting in January 2017 and this past weekend, one of their neighbours was shot to death, just a few hundred metres from their back door of their home near Kipling and Finch Ave.You're wrong, Barrington... parts of Toronto are exactly that.
“We’re not in a third world country. To be living like this, we’re at siege, we can’t go outside.”
**********"But by acting so swiftly, a mere nine days after the New York Times first reported allegations of sexual assault against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences now finds itself facing a dilemma."Let's look at fighting injustice, Hollywood style...
"Put simply: What to do with the rest of them?"
“Wearing black on the runway is all well and good, but it will only make a difference when women stop dressing and showing themselves as chattel. We might as well still be wearing corsets.”**********
Rose McGowan has lashed out at the stars who wore black to the Golden Globes, accusing them of "Hollywood fakery" for failing to take a stand against the sex abuse claims sooner. She claims the famous females who united against the scandal "wouldn't have lifted a finger" to help if she hadn't gone public with allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
"Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, announced Sunday night that the federal government has reduced its contribution to the U.N.’s annual budget by 285 million dollars."**********
Now, is this cultural appropriation... a bastardization of aboriginal culture or simply shlock?
"It took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this."Didn't some Austrian dude once put I.G. Farben in charge of Germany's wartime industrial Human Resources challenges?
WUZHEN, China • Picture an internet where tech companies are deputized as crime-fighters, where censors keep radical views in check and where governments work together to achieve global order in cyberspace.Looks like Trump came along just in time.
That is China’s vision.
"She wanted to curl up and never leave the house again..."
"TRANSLATION: HILLARY NEGOTIATING WITH TRUMP FOR ANKLE BRACELET!"
Dunham expressed love for her fans and described how she had “whispered some wishes for you into the big red rock” after asking “the Canyon for some guidance.”How about you give me a shout when even one of these spoiled, millionaire self-referential celebrities crosses the border and runs headlong into Canada's incredibly punitive tax code.
Sources have told The American Spectator that on Tuesday night, after Hillary realized she had lost, she went into a rage.And, apparently... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
Secret Service officers told at least one source that she began yelling, screaming obscenities, and pounding furniture. She picked up objects and threw them at attendants and staff. She was in an uncontrollable rage.
Her aides could not allow her to come out in public. It would take her hours to calm down.
"She’s fired many people. Many people have left the organization because of her. She is not a likable human being," Klein said.Yeah, I'm shocked.
"She is widely despised in the Clinton campaign in Brooklyn and at the Clinton Foundation because whatever little subtlety Hillary might have, Chelsea has none whatsoever."
"The suspect subsequently abandoned the weapons and began making his way to the exit. He grabbed hold of a customer, an 82 year old man, and held him hostage.This officer, for whatever reason, instead of taking the shot, was physically close enough for this homicidal thug to get a petty good piece of him. This was the wrong tactical decision.
As he came out the doors to the rooftop parking lot of the Canadian Tire holding this hostage at knife point, he was confronted by responding police officers."
Palmer says one of those officers was stabbed in the abdomen and the neck, before police fatally shot the suspect.
“We tried to use the least amount of force possible to take him into custody,” said Police Chief Adam Palmer**********
Toronto Police say the victim was stabbed inside a dance studio around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.In other "dindu nuffin" news...
A person got out of the sedan, opened fire, then got back in and then sped off, Toronto Police Const. David Hopkinson said. No description of a suspect has yet been released and the name of the victim has not been released.Those darned "unknown assailants"... and victims.
A 21-year-old man was dropped off at the Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus after Ottawa's 60th shooting of 2016, police say.And...
Officers were called to the hospital at around 5:45 p.m.
Police are searching for suspects after a robbery Friday morning at a Centretown marijuana dispensary —the sixth Ottawa dispensary to be targeted by robbers in the last three months.Ah yes... cutting crime, Liberal style.
Robbers have allegedly threatened — and in some cases assaulted — workers at a handful of marijuana dispensaries with knives and guns.
**********“For months, we’ve been warning the minister about the staffing policies at ORNGE that leave bases understaffed and incapable of responding to emergency calls,” Klees said, citing investigations into 13 such incidents."That's funny... there doesn't seem to be a shortage of taxpayer cash...
"Matthews said she has asked ORNGE to “look closely” at what happened Wednesday but added she is aware there is a shortage of pilots trained to fly the helicopters.
"The incident put Health Minister Deb Matthews on the defensive yet again over ORNGE, where new leadership is in place since the departure of former chief executive Dr. Chris Mazza over his $1.4 million salary."**********
"As soon as McGuinty got wind of this Conservative fiasco, he called in the Auditor General"No, Ted... more like, as soon as this started to get traction in the media...
-- TORONTO -- "Reports suggested the driver was going through red lights with his headlights off. Police reportedly set up a roadblock and opened fire when the driver steered his car at them." --Hey, Gomer... you call the tune... ...don't be too surprised somebody punches your dance card.
"Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is continuing to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of 50-year-old Wieslaw Duda of Mississauga."**********
-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he’ll require his caucus to oppose the next vote to scrap the controversial long-gun registry.Uh, Michael... does this mean we get our "two billion dollars" back?
He says a new Liberal government would also eliminate fees for new licences, renewals and upgrades.
On wiretap audio recorded by federal investigators in October, Burris is heard jockeying for the seat with Robert Blagojevich, the former governor’s brother and top fundraiser, and promising to send a personal check by the end of the month.[*]
“Tell Rod to keep me in mind for that seat, would you?” Burris is heard saying.
