July 2020

2020-07-31

Portland man charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to downtown courthouse

Article Link: https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-man-charged-with-arson-after-setting-fire-to-downtown-courthouse

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

A Portland, Ore., man was charged in a criminal complaint Friday with allegedly throwing an explosive device at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Authorities say security cameras caught 18-year-old Gabriel Agard-Berryhill throwing an “incendiary object” into the entrance of the building near midnight on July 28, causing an explosion inside the downtown courthouse. “No legitimate protest message is advanced by throwing a large explosive device against a government building,” U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said Friday. “Mr. Agard-Berryhill’s actions could have gravely injured law enforcement officers positioned near the courthouse, other protesters standing nearby, or himself.”

2020-07-31

WARMINGTON: Was Nelly Furtado donation to Kielburger charity blood money?

IRWeasel Canada, Politics & Economics 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-was-nelly-furtado-donation-to-kielburger-charity-blood-money/wcm/1584dde8-7f7f-4944-9ba8-bb475ce0124b/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

Blood money from dictator Col. Muammer Gaddafi or unethical cash appropriately scrubbed to help impoverished children? Old questions linger about $1 million We Charity’s Free the Children received indirectly from the now deceased Libyan president. The money originally was paid by the $200-billion net worth Gaddafi family to Canadian singing sensation Nelly Furtado who was compensated for doing a show for the strongman’s family 13 years ago.

2020-07-31

LILLEY: Ontario government bows out of relationship with WE

IRWeasel Canada, Politics & Economics 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-ontario-government-bows-out-of-relationship-with-we/wcm/dadd8981-9de6-4089-9cf7-c3eb1726a144/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

The Ontario government is dropping WE Charity like a hot potato. The organization, which as recently as June 18 was heralded as part of the province’s response to COVID-19 and student well-being, will not see their contract with the province renewed. “The Ministry of Education’s relationship with WE is ending. I am encouraging school boards across the province to halt all contracts and investigate existing contracts,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce told me exclusively.

2020-07-31

Jukebox – July 31, 2020

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Welcome to The Weekend

2020-07-31

Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

IRWeasel History, Strange & Weird 0

Article Link: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-was-fake-but-her-wealth?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

Ida Wood never had any intention of renewing contact with the outside world, but on March 5, 1931, death made it necessary. At four o’clock that afternoon, the 93-year-old did something she hadn’t done in 24 years of living at the Herald Square Hotel: she voluntarily opened the door, craned her neck down the corridor, and called for help. “Maid, come here!” she shouted. “My sister is sick. Get a doctor. I think she’s going to die.”

2020-07-31

Knife-wielding man shot after charging cop outside Arizona supermarket

IRWeasel Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/knife-wielding-man-shot-after-charging-cop-outside-arizona-supermarket/wcm/05bc6d0f-7d83-4f94-9714-f07ed75c5826/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

An allegedly drunken man wielding a knife was shot as he accosted a Phoenix police officer while threatening to “slice” her throat in a supermarket’s parking lot, wild video shows. In footage released by Phoenix police, the man repeatedly threatens to stab a female cop during an encounter that shows the man charging at the officer.

2020-07-31

GOLDSTEIN: Conflicted Trudeau doesn’t know who his friends are

IRWeasel Canada, Politics & Economics 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-conflicted-trudeau-doesnt-know-who-his-friends-are/wcm/975b6fec-e165-48c6-8dd5-25aee1e86e2f/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

One reason Prime Minister Justin Trudeau keeps getting in trouble with federal conflict-of-interest legislation is that he does not know who his friends are. In his testimony to the House of Commons finance committee on Thursday regarding the WE Charity controversy, Trudeau said: “I’m not friends with the Kielburgers. I know them but I don’t have close ties.”

2020-07-31

Hospital technician faces multiple sex assault charges

IRWeasel Canada, Health & Living, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/hospital-technician-faces-multiple-sex-assault-charges/wcm/64b9593d-8cce-4e34-b0c9-8945b45266a6/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

A man who was working as a healthcare technician faces charges after several patients at two Toronto hospitals reported they were sexually assaulted. Toronto Police allege a 46-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a man on Jan. 22, 2018 while she was a patient at Toronto Western Hospital at Bathurst and Dundas Sts.

2020-07-31

Carpenters’ union removes new member after noose found at LRT construction site

IRWeasel Business, Culture & Race, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/carpenters-union-removes-new-member-after-noose-found-at-lrt-construction-site/wcm/c6c4e66b-c8d2-48c5-badc-8b475efc25b5/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

The Carpenters’ District Council of Ontario says it has “requested and received” the resignation from one of its members after a noose was found hanging at an Eglinton Crosstown LRT construction site. In a press release issued Tuesday, CDCO said in “response to a racist and hateful act” at the jobsite near Eglinton Ave. W. and Dufferin St., Carpenters Local 27 removed the member, who had recently joined the union.

2020-07-31

Ontario government introducing fall cormorant hunt

IRWeasel Canada, Nature & Environment 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ontario-government-introducing-fall-cormorant-hunt/wcm/e97a9e04-f4e3-4b48-8f63-d8aaf4077fbe/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

In an effort to control growing numbers of double-crested cormorants in the province, the Ontario government is introducing a fall harvest of the potentially damaging bird species, the Toronto Sun has learned. Natural Resources and Forestry Minister John Yakabuski will announce the harvest Friday in Fenelon Falls, responding to concerns from both anglers and homeowners about the threat posed by the birds.

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