-- "A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for federal offender Latef Tag El Din, 30, who is wanted for breaching their statutory release. He was serving a two-year sentence for various firearms offences." --

-- "The House Oversight Committee vote for the former President to face a potential criminal misdemeanor for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was 34-8.   Another vote for his wife, the former first lady and Secretary of State, failing to testify was 28-15." --

-- "Another appointee in Zohran Mamdani’s administration is under scrutiny after deleted X posts resurfaced showing the city’s chief equity officer, Afua Atta-Mensah, attacking white women, casually using the term 'comrade,' and amplifying radical rhetoric, including retweeting the phrase, 'there’s NO moderate way to black liberation.'" --

-- "US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it should be known within three weeks whether Hamas will agree to give up its weapons, and threatened action if the group does not." --

-- "The Palestinian-Mexican American running for Congress is the grandson of Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, mastermind of Black September terrorists who murdered and mutilated 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972." --

-- "Sen. Mike Lee has demanded that Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin be publicly executed over the conservative activist’s death. ‘Tyler Robinson publicly executed Charlie Kirk, Lee wrote in a similar X post on Friday. ‘Tyler Robinson should be publicly executed.’" --

-- "Peel Regional Police say Abdifatah Ahmed, 25, has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 25-year-old man who was assaulted in a parking lot in Brampton earlier this month." --

-- "A 22-year-old man is in hospital following a shooting outside a home in Vaughan in the early hours of Wednesday morning." --

-- "The Toronto Police Service's cold case unit is tasked with investigating about 800 murders that have gone unsolved over the years." --

-- "Oshawa man Thomas Stavrou, 31, is facing multiple charges after an armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon at a Cannabis dispensary." --

-- "'Well, they shouldn’t be doing it,' Trump said of the disturbing death threats issued by Tehran, in an interview with NewsNation’s 'Katie Pavlich Tonight.'" --

Let's all remember, Iran doesn't have a history of making the wisest choices. 

And the USA is drawing a line in Davos.

-- "Tyrel Gibson, 40, the man charged with the first-degree murder of Osemwengie Irorere at Yorkdale mall was previously identified as a 'high-risk, high-needs offender with low reintegration potential,'  Parole Board of Canada documents reveal.  'There are no observable and measurable positive changes in your behaviour.'" --

NOTA BENE... Gibson was under a lifetime weapons ban. 

And CBC sucks more gangbanger dick...

-- “'Indigenous elders I’ve worked with would say every human being has a chance to work towards healing and to change their life,' she said.   'It’s always possible.'” --

Toronto Police have laid charges against 19-year-old Alaa Khaled and 18-year-old Matin Ahmad, and a 16-year-old accused of stealing licence plates and attaching them to their stolen vehicle. Police also located a car key programming device and a programmable master key.

-- "NYPD Sergeant Talha Ahmad, 28 was arrested for groping a domestic-violence victim in Brooklyn after boasting, ‘I am the police supervisor.’" --

-- "Ontario Superior Court judge Clayton Conlan has released 36-year-old Jermaine Neverson who was convicted of sex-trafficking eight vulnerable women over nearly a decade.   Neverson also killed one of his victim’s dogs." --

-- "Danish lawmaker and European Parliament Member Anders Vistisen was reprimanded after startlingly telling President Trump to 'fuck off' during a recent meeting to discuss the US’s campaign to buy Greenland." --

  --  "RCMP were called to a residence regarding a domestic disturbance and arrived to find a man 'in possession of a weapon.'   The release stated that a taser was used on the man with no effect, and another officer then shot the man."  --  

-- "What gives them the right to come onto our reservations, our communities, and shoot our people?” Paul said." --

Make sure you check out the obligatory CBC included baby picture. 

If feeling inspired, please let 'professional' journo Sam Farley know how you feel.  

No cops allowed on the Rez... right?

-- "Toronto Police say a woman wanted in connection with a hate-motivated assault made anti-Egyptian and anti-immigration utterances before pouring water over a person’s head in East York.   She was last seen walking east on Overlea Boulevard." --

-- "York Regional Police have charged 66‑year‑old Toronto man Vahid Hossein‑Nia after he was allegedly seen hiding behind garbage cans inside a Markham community centre while committing an indecent act." --

-- "Halton Regional Police say Amin Hadj Kaddour, 24, and Joshua Twa’colagiacomo, 24, are facing charges following a break-in at an Oakville car dealership, where a group of masked individuals made off with roughly $2-million worth of luxury automobiles. Both were granted bail and released." --

-- "This video documents the emotional truth behind leaving the UK and starting over in Sicily,  from safety concerns and political frustrations to rebuilding an abandoned villa. This video is the reality of starting again." --

-- "Markham, Ont. man, 54-year-old Luigi Kong, has been charged with criminal harassment in a stalking investigation after police allege he repeatedly attended the swimming lessons of a victim over a period of several months." --

-- "One man suffered serious injuries after a stabbing at an airport hotel currently being used as part of its homeless shelter system early Monday morning, Toronto Police say." --

-- "Toronto Police say Christopher Casilla‑Pena, 27, has been arrested and charged with trafficking two teenage girls and assaulting one of the victims." --

-- "Florida man Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, is accused of shooting and killing three tourists stranded at a rental home on Saturday.    Osceola County Sheriff Christopher Blackmon described it as a 'horrific and senseless act of premeditated violence.’" --

-- "She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World.   'She could help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!'" --

-- "Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris' election team asked whether he was an 'agent of the Israeli government' while discussing his potential as a Vice Presidential candidate." --

-- "A New York Times opinion piece omitted several details while describing the fatal shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after claiming Good was 'summarily executed.'    The article did not include any additional context on the shooting, such as Good driving a Honda Pilot SUV in the direction of ICE officers after ignoring demands to step out of the vehicle." --

-- "A courtroom erupted in tears and applause after a jury found Toronto rapper Christopher Lucas, 27,  guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Christine Crooks, 18, of Toronto, and 20-year-old Juliana Pannunzio of Windsor at a Fort Erie Airbnb.   Lucas aka ‘El Plaga’, who did not testify at trial, showed no emotion when the verdicts were read." --

Hey... what's new with 'Scarborough Man'? 

DAILY GTA MAYHEM... TORONTO 'COMMUNITY HOUSING' EDITION

-- "A man in his 20s has been rushed to hospital in critical condition following a shooting at Jane Street and Steeles Avenue in North York early Monday morning, Toronto Police say.   Two males dressed in black were spotted leaving the area in a dark-coloured sedan." --

-- "In 2025, having officially renamed Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa — a Ghanaian word that means 'to go back and get it' — demand for the downtown public event space cratered." --

-- "Revenue from permits fell from $275,000 in 2024 to a projected $87,000 for 2025." --

-- "A Durham Regional Police officer and a suspect were both shot during a response to an 'armed person call.'    The shooting occurred at a home on Cedar Street in Oshawa." --

Turns out the cop was hit by 'friendly fire.'

UPDATE:   Officers were seen in and around 'All Spa & Hot Tub' at 744 Simcoe St. S.

-- "The mourners had gathered in the small village of Vero, a half-hour drive from Ajaccio, the capital of the picture-postcard Mediterranean island of Corsica. In their midst was former nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, 71, who had flown in from exile in Nicaragua to bury his mother. Suddenly, with the ceremony under way, a single shot was fired from nearby scrubland, killing Orsoni instantly." --

-- "Thirty-five people have been fatally shot on this island of 350,000 people in the past three years alone, giving it one of France's highest murder rates." --

-- "York Regional Police are investigating after a vehicle was shot at in a Vaughan neighbourhood overnight. Police say the shooting happened in the area of Madeira Avenue and Genoa Road, where a vehicle was parked in a residential driveway when it was struck by gunfire." --

Looks like the usual, well... you know.  

MORE...  And cosying up to mail-order China has consequences.