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Bout time if you don't have insurance going to the dentist is
and considering those on odsp and refugees get free dental, it was absurd that john doe making 50k without dental would be out of luck
Durham police say six kids ranging in age from 12 to 16 are facing charges after allegedly forcing someone into the trunk of a stolen Subaru.
Investigators say someone reported seeing a person being stuffed into the trunk of the vehicle in north Whitby, Ont., on Tuesday night.
Police say they were able to locate the vehicle, and it stopped after a short chase.
They say they arrested four young people at the scene, and two others who ran away were arrested soon after.
All six face charges related to the allegedly stolen vehicle.
A 16-year-old from Toronto and a 15-year-old from Hamilton are also charged with two counts of forcible confinement, assault, pointing a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon.
If they actually do it. Liberals have been talking about universal dental and pharma since the 1960s. The fine print in the agreement is already pretty suspect. Lots of "will commit to exploring" and "continue to discuss"
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Foot on his neck
Glad they’re calling this piece of shyt out. I didn’t agree with the protestors and thought they were clowns but implementing federal emergency measures, beating up protestors, freezing accounts and labelling them “terrorists” while using the media to brand them that way is a classic dictatorship move.
I don’t think Canada is moving towards a dictatorship at all but it is a slippery slope when the government can pick and choose who they label as “terrorist” and can use the full wrath of the state to destroy them. Trudeau did this as a warning to anyone who thinks of protesting any of his measures in the future. It’s extremely undemocratic but Canadians are too soft and docile to do anything about it. Glad European leaders are pressing him and the world saw thr fukked up shyt he did for what it was
Foot on his neck
Glad they’re calling this piece of shyt out. I didn’t agree with the protestors and thought they were clowns but implementing federal emergency measures, beating up protestors, freezing accounts and labelling them “terrorists” while using the media to brand them that way is a classic dictatorship move.
I don’t think Canada is moving towards a dictatorship at all but it is a slippery slope when the government can pick and choose who they label as “terrorist” and can use the full wrath of the state to destroy them. Trudeau did this as a warning to anyone who thinks of protesting any of his measures in the future. It’s extremely undemocratic but Canadians are too soft and docile to do anything about it. Glad European leaders are pressing him and the world saw thr fukked up shyt he did for what it was
Most places in the world where a leader locks up protestors, freezes accounts and is in power for this long and makes side deals to keep his power would be called a dictator
no trigger discipline...glocks don't go off even when you drop them.
look at these POS
NEEDLE
Adil Zeno left the College Park courthouse and hit a windfall — after filling out a marketing survey offered by a young woman on the busy downtown street corner, he won $250 to use at a casino.
At the casino and over dinner and several drinks afterwards with other contest winners, he bonded with two guys: Omar and Jermaine, who gave him a ride back to a group of Dixon Road highrises on Dec. 12, 2018.
When they picked him up a week later to head back to the casino, Zeno couldn’t wait to tell them what had happened the night after they dropped him off: his two friends Samir Adem and Salman Ahmed had shot and killed a young man, Jonathan Gayle-West, in a car, and he’d made sure they safely got out of the neighbourhood as the police investigated.
“I was tripping that day, I’ll be real,” he said. “The whole hood’s famous ... so, yo, a body just dropped right there.”
He told them “two youths” — Adem and Ahmed — had got into Gayle-West’s car as a carjacking.
Acting it out, he said the man in the passenger seat pointed a loaded gun at Gayle-West’s head.
“Everything went south. My n---- put the ting on his head like this,” he said.
Gayle-West wrestled the man for the gun and “de-cocked” it so that an unfired bullet fell out. But Gayle-West didn’t realize, Zeno said with a laugh, that the man in the backseat had a gun, too. That man then shot Gayle-West three times in the ribs, “boom, boom, boom,” he said. And once the other man was able to fix his gun, he shot Gayle-West as well, putting “four in his face,” Zeno said, and the car crashed into a tree on Islington Avenue.
Zeno said he told Ahmed and Adem they were looking at life sentences and that they were “f---ing crazy.” He said they laughed in response. “They think it’s a joke,” he said, adding that they dismissed his suggestion that they could have left fingerprints or DNA in the car.
Zeno said he arranged a motel for Ahmed and Adem to get them out of the area, bought them a bottle of Hennessy and went there with them.
A recording of Zeno’s conversation about Gayle-West’s killing was played in court Wednesday, taken by the undercover officers posing as Omar and Jermaine in a police operation related to a different and unrelated homicide.
Testifying in court, Zeno admitted that this is what he told the officers, but said it was all a lie: “things that I made up and hearsay evidence through the grapevine.”
The two men never confessed to the shooting to him, Zeno testified. They told him nothing about the shooting at all. When he met up with them at the Dixon Road building on the evening of Dec. 12, 2018, he had won some money at the casino and asked them if they wanted to party — it was a totally normal night. He agreed that surveillance video shows him buying the Hennessy and the three men taking a taxi across town to a motel in Scarborough where they spent the night at a motel.
Adem and Ahmed have both pleaded not guilty to murdering Jonathan Gayle-West — a 29-year-old story editor at TSN who had been visiting his pastor at around 6 p.m. the night of his killing. The jury has heard Gayle-West was shot three times in the torso, including one shot that pierced his heart. The Crown alleges DNA, fingerprints, surveillance video and the murder weapon connect the two men, who were strangers to Gayle-West, to the killing.
There is no evidence Gayle-West was shot in the head, as Zeno told the undercover officers.
It is agreed by the Crown and defence that some of the key details in Zeno’s story had not been published in any news outlet or released by police at the time, including that Gayle-West was shot three times in the torso, that unfired bullets were found in the car or that Ahmed or Adem were suspects.
Zeno’s assertion that he made all of this up or relied on the “word on the street,” is “preposterous,” Crown prosecutor Paul Zambonini said, noting that it can’t be “pure coincidence” that details in his version closely match what happened.
“I’d suggest you are telling lies today,” Zambonini said to Zeno.
“No, I’m under oath today,” Zeno replied.
“If there is any time, ever, to tell the truth, this is it,” Zambonini said. “The truth is, sir, these two men here murdered Jonathan Gayle and bragged about it to you and by pure, actual coincidence … you were actually under investigation by Toronto police officers and you stupidly and foolishly told them everything these two men told you. That’s what actually happened.”
“No, sir,” Zeno said.
In cross-examination, defence lawyer Craig Bottomley suggested Zeno did have a motive to manufacture the story about the shooting.
Bottomley said Zeno had a drinking problem, grew up in poverty, dropped out of school and was hoping to have a better life — and he thought he could get that by portraying himself to the undercover officers as a “hard-core gangster surrounded by other hard-core gangsters.”
Zeno agreed, adding that the two undercover officers had the “vibe” or “aura” of gangsters.
Zeno also lied to them that he’d served time in prison and that he’d stabbed someone in prison.
Bottomley said the police recordings show that Zeno gave four different versions of what happened on Dec. 12, 2018, over the course of the five months the undercover operation went on.
In the early stages, Zeno showed the officers a photo of a gun he had on his phone and they offered to buy it, court heard. Later there was a staged car chase and he was asked to help dispose of evidence including a gun, prior to Zeno meeting the “boss” of the fake criminal organization.
The trial continues.
Police used a fake casino contest to set up a sting for one Toronto murder. The target told them about a different one
NEEDLE
Adil Zeno left the College Park courthouse and hit a windfall — after filling out a marketing survey offered by a young woman on the busy downtown street corner, he won $250 to use at a casino.
At the casino and over dinner and several drinks afterwards with other contest winners, he bonded with two guys: Omar and Jermaine, who gave him a ride back to a group of Dixon Road highrises on Dec. 12, 2018.
When they picked him up a week later to head back to the casino, Zeno couldn’t wait to tell them what had happened the night after they dropped him off: his two friends Samir Adem and Salman Ahmed had shot and killed a young man, Jonathan Gayle-West, in a car, and he’d made sure they safely got out of the neighbourhood as the police investigated.
“I was tripping that day, I’ll be real,” he said. “The whole hood’s famous ... so, yo, a body just dropped right there.”
He told them “two youths” — Adem and Ahmed — had got into Gayle-West’s car as a carjacking.
Acting it out, he said the man in the passenger seat pointed a loaded gun at Gayle-West’s head.
“Everything went south. My n---- put the ting on his head like this,” he said.
Gayle-West wrestled the man for the gun and “de-cocked” it so that an unfired bullet fell out. But Gayle-West didn’t realize, Zeno said with a laugh, that the man in the backseat had a gun, too. That man then shot Gayle-West three times in the ribs, “boom, boom, boom,” he said. And once the other man was able to fix his gun, he shot Gayle-West as well, putting “four in his face,” Zeno said, and the car crashed into a tree on Islington Avenue.
Zeno said he told Ahmed and Adem they were looking at life sentences and that they were “f---ing crazy.” He said they laughed in response. “They think it’s a joke,” he said, adding that they dismissed his suggestion that they could have left fingerprints or DNA in the car.
Zeno said he arranged a motel for Ahmed and Adem to get them out of the area, bought them a bottle of Hennessy and went there with them.
A recording of Zeno’s conversation about Gayle-West’s killing was played in court Wednesday, taken by the undercover officers posing as Omar and Jermaine in a police operation related to a different and unrelated homicide.
Testifying in court, Zeno admitted that this is what he told the officers, but said it was all a lie: “things that I made up and hearsay evidence through the grapevine.”
The two men never confessed to the shooting to him, Zeno testified. They told him nothing about the shooting at all. When he met up with them at the Dixon Road building on the evening of Dec. 12, 2018, he had won some money at the casino and asked them if they wanted to party — it was a totally normal night. He agreed that surveillance video shows him buying the Hennessy and the three men taking a taxi across town to a motel in Scarborough where they spent the night at a motel.
Adem and Ahmed have both pleaded not guilty to murdering Jonathan Gayle-West — a 29-year-old story editor at TSN who had been visiting his pastor at around 6 p.m. the night of his killing. The jury has heard Gayle-West was shot three times in the torso, including one shot that pierced his heart. The Crown alleges DNA, fingerprints, surveillance video and the murder weapon connect the two men, who were strangers to Gayle-West, to the killing.
There is no evidence Gayle-West was shot in the head, as Zeno told the undercover officers.
It is agreed by the Crown and defence that some of the key details in Zeno’s story had not been published in any news outlet or released by police at the time, including that Gayle-West was shot three times in the torso, that unfired bullets were found in the car or that Ahmed or Adem were suspects.
Zeno’s assertion that he made all of this up or relied on the “word on the street,” is “preposterous,” Crown prosecutor Paul Zambonini said, noting that it can’t be “pure coincidence” that details in his version closely match what happened.
“I’d suggest you are telling lies today,” Zambonini said to Zeno.
“No, I’m under oath today,” Zeno replied.
“If there is any time, ever, to tell the truth, this is it,” Zambonini said. “The truth is, sir, these two men here murdered Jonathan Gayle and bragged about it to you and by pure, actual coincidence … you were actually under investigation by Toronto police officers and you stupidly and foolishly told them everything these two men told you. That’s what actually happened.”
“No, sir,” Zeno said.
In cross-examination, defence lawyer Craig Bottomley suggested Zeno did have a motive to manufacture the story about the shooting.
Bottomley said Zeno had a drinking problem, grew up in poverty, dropped out of school and was hoping to have a better life — and he thought he could get that by portraying himself to the undercover officers as a “hard-core gangster surrounded by other hard-core gangsters.”
Zeno agreed, adding that the two undercover officers had the “vibe” or “aura” of gangsters.
Zeno also lied to them that he’d served time in prison and that he’d stabbed someone in prison.
Bottomley said the police recordings show that Zeno gave four different versions of what happened on Dec. 12, 2018, over the course of the five months the undercover operation went on.
In the early stages, Zeno showed the officers a photo of a gun he had on his phone and they offered to buy it, court heard. Later there was a staged car chase and he was asked to help dispose of evidence including a gun, prior to Zeno meeting the “boss” of the fake criminal organization.
The trial continues.
Police used a fake casino contest to set up a sting for one Toronto murder. The target told them about a different one
makes a man queasy that there's guys walking around viewing life so cheaply...absolutely disgusting. A law abiding man can't legally tote a gun into certain neighbourhoods but can be victimized with no recourse year after year. we always hear about innocent brehs dying in bad neighbourhoods. law abiding black men need a way to legally fight back. then people wonder why some decent brehs in bad hoods tote illegal straps. stuck between a rock and a fukking impossibly hard place. smh.
Toronto couple finds Confederate flag in Airbnb rental, company admits it 'mishandled' the situation
A Toronto couple is looking to raise awareness and seek accountability after they found a Confederate flag hanging inside their booked Airbnb rental.
Patricia Joong and Justin Ford are still processing the incident which took place near Belleville, Ont. on March 4.
“It just made us sort of sick to our stomachs, that it was in our Airbnb, that we would be sleeping with that, a symbol of hate,” Joong told CTV News Toronto.
The flag is a symbol associated with slavery, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy.
“[We were] feeling a little bit uncomfortable, more uncomfortable, and actually thinking, possibly, that our safety could be compromised,” said Ford.
Shocked and hurt, the couple said they left within 30 minutes of arriving and drove home.
Joong and Ford said they called the company and were told by a representative to contact the host to request a refund -- which they said also made them uncomfortable.
Moreover, Airbnb said it could not control a host’s "decor."
“We were appalled by that response because we didn’t understand how you could equate a Confederate flag to ‘decor’ at an Airbnb,” Joong said.
When CTV News Toronto contacted Airbnb, we were directed to its community policy, which states that the business doesn’t allow “hateful, discriminatory or offensive images, symbols or objects” in properties listed on their platform.
“Airbnb does not tolerate discrimination and our policies ban hateful and discriminatory objects -- which specifically includes the Confederate flag,” said a spokesperson in a statement.
“We deeply apologize to Ms. Joong and Mr. Ford that our community support team member appears to have mishandled this case and gave them an incorrect account of our policy -- we never want our guests to have this type of experience, especially when they've brought us such a serious claim.”
Joong and Ford said since they called the company about the flag on the night they arrived at the rental, they both exchanged messages with Airbnb about their concerns -- but no one has called to followed up.
Meanwhile, the couple has set up an online petition, saying ‘Airbnb guests have the right to feel welcome and safe in their accommodations’.
“We pressed on this, ‘Someone would call you tomorrow’, and we haven’t heard from someone and this has been almost a month,” said Ford.
“We want people to understand that, you know, that this could happen, and that Airbnb will do nothing and the listing will stay active,” added Joong.
The host replied online to the couple and apologized for making them feel uncomfortable and issued a refund.
Airbnb tells CTV News Toronto it has now suspended the listing indefinitely as it investigates the incident further.
A Toronto couple is looking to raise awareness and seek accountability after they found a Confederate flag hanging inside their booked Airbnb rental.
Patricia Joong and Justin Ford are still processing the incident which took place near Belleville, Ont. on March 4.
“It just made us sort of sick to our stomachs, that it was in our Airbnb, that we would be sleeping with that, a symbol of hate,” Joong told CTV News Toronto.
The flag is a symbol associated with slavery, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy.
“[We were] feeling a little bit uncomfortable, more uncomfortable, and actually thinking, possibly, that our safety could be compromised,” said Ford.
Shocked and hurt, the couple said they left within 30 minutes of arriving and drove home.
Joong and Ford said they called the company and were told by a representative to contact the host to request a refund -- which they said also made them uncomfortable.
Moreover, Airbnb said it could not control a host’s "decor."
“We were appalled by that response because we didn’t understand how you could equate a Confederate flag to ‘decor’ at an Airbnb,” Joong said.
When CTV News Toronto contacted Airbnb, we were directed to its community policy, which states that the business doesn’t allow “hateful, discriminatory or offensive images, symbols or objects” in properties listed on their platform.
“Airbnb does not tolerate discrimination and our policies ban hateful and discriminatory objects -- which specifically includes the Confederate flag,” said a spokesperson in a statement.
“We deeply apologize to Ms. Joong and Mr. Ford that our community support team member appears to have mishandled this case and gave them an incorrect account of our policy -- we never want our guests to have this type of experience, especially when they've brought us such a serious claim.”
Joong and Ford said since they called the company about the flag on the night they arrived at the rental, they both exchanged messages with Airbnb about their concerns -- but no one has called to followed up.
Meanwhile, the couple has set up an online petition, saying ‘Airbnb guests have the right to feel welcome and safe in their accommodations’.
“We pressed on this, ‘Someone would call you tomorrow’, and we haven’t heard from someone and this has been almost a month,” said Ford.
“We want people to understand that, you know, that this could happen, and that Airbnb will do nothing and the listing will stay active,” added Joong.
The host replied online to the couple and apologized for making them feel uncomfortable and issued a refund.
Airbnb tells CTV News Toronto it has now suspended the listing indefinitely as it investigates the incident further.