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A police officer in Edmonton was run down with a van and repeatedly stabbed by someone dubbed a "lone wolf", just as was Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, Martin Couture-Rouleau, Aaron Driver, Rehab Dugmosh, Ismael Habib, Chiheb Esseghaier, the Toronto Eighteen and another resident of Edmonton, Omar Khadr:

Canadian police charged a Somali refugee with five counts of attempted murder on Sunday after they said he stabbed a police officer and ran down several pedestrians with a car in Edmonton, Alberta, in what officials called an act of terrorism. 

The suspect, a 30-year-old man whom police did not identify, had been investigated two years ago for promoting extremist ideology but not deemed a threat, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. 

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand said an “exhaustive investigation” into the man in 2015 did not uncover sufficient evidence to pursue charges. ...

The attacks in the western Canadian city began when a Chevy Malibu hit a police officer standing in front of a football stadium at about 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, sending him flying into the air. The driver got out of the car and stabbed the officer multiple times before fleeing, according to police accounts and surveillance footage of the incident. 

Police identified the suspect when he was stopped at a checkpoint and his license showed that he was the owner of the Malibu. He fled the checkpoint and was apprehended after a police chase across a downtown street, during which he hit four pedestrians. 

A flag of the Islamic State militant group was found inside the Malibu, said Rod Knecht, police chief of Edmonton, Alberta’s provincial capital.

While it is incredibly "Islamophobic" to bring this up (hence this act will go down the memory hole faster than the authorities can screw up a terrorist bombing that killed a total of three hundred and twenty-nine people, two hundred and eighty of whom where Canadian) but this is the direct result of not only Trudeau pere's failed vision of political multiculturalism that holds every culture, no matter how backward, is just as valid as cultures that aren't (his unabiding love for totalitarianism notwithstanding) but Trudeau fils' weakness, idiocy, craven desire to sit in the seat of power even with various hands up his pampered posterior and lack of empathy for the average Canadian, even the empty-skulls who voted for him. So, yes, Justin, people will be mad that your government handed a convicted terrorist $10.5 million and tried to both hide and then justify it just as they will remember how you opened the floodgates to God knows who for an ugly election win in 2019 and all the other stupid things you've supported.


Now it's time to get used to the new normal.




Speaking of the new normal:

A man with a knife attacked people at the main train station in the southeastern French city of Marseille on Sunday, killing two women before soldiers fatally shot the assailant, officials said.

It looks like Spain is coming apart:

Catalonia’s regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on Sunday after voters defied a violent police crackdown and, according to regional officials, voted 90 percent in favor of breaking away. 

Despite Spanish police using batons and rubber bullets to disrupt the banned referendum, which was declared unconstitutional by Madrid, the Catalan government said 2.26 million people had cast ballots, a turnout of about 42 percent. 

The trial for those accused of assassinating Kim Jong-Un's brother will start shortly: 

Two women go on trial for the killing on Monday.

•What happened?

On Feb. 13, two women walked up to the half brother of the tubby tyrant, Kim Jong-nam, in the airport at Kuala Lumpur and soaked him with deadly poison, the VX nerve agent. In minutes he was dead.

•The suspects

It’s widely believed North Korean agents orchestrated the hit through two party girls that the Malaysian media has described as hookers. Divorced mother of one, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, giggled and partied away the hours before the murder. She hoped to be a singing star and celebrity and says she believed the airport gig was for a reality show.

Vietnamese woman Doan Thi Huong, 29, worked the trade in southeast Asia, trolling for wealthy men. Thi Huong posted photos of herself in slinky bathing suits, enjoying parties and travelling.
Both have pleaded not guilty. They will be hanged if found guilty.

•The victim

Kim Jon-nam, 45, was the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, “Supreme Leader,” and for many years was considered the diminutive despot’s heir apparent. But he fell out of favour when he attempted to visit Tokyo Disneyland on a false passport. He also was vocal in believing that North Korea should be reformed. Whoops. He was exiled in 2003 and from the moment his father died, his half-brother, Kim Jong-un had a target painted on his back. A Playboy, he had two wives, a mistress and numerous children.

•The villian

Tyrant Kim Jong un wanted to “horrify the rest of the world” with the brazen assassination of his half-brother, South Korean intelligence sources said last week. The murder had less to do with sibling rivalry than setting an example of what happens to those who run afoul of North Korea. The scheme had been in the works for at least five years.

•The trial

The prosecution is expected to call 30 to 40 witnesses — including an expert on VX nerve agent — and a number of “foreigners,” ...

Also:

China has ordered North Korean companies in the country to close down within 120 days of the United Nations Security Council's passage of the latest of sanctions on Sept. 12, according to China's commerce ministry on Thursday.

A smoke and mirrors gesture, I'm sure.




We don't have a justice system, only a legal one:

Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children's 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, died after the van they were in was hit by a speeding SUV driven by Marco Muzzo.

The children's grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously hurt in the Vaughan, Ont., collision.

Muzzo was sentenced in March 2016 to 10 years in prison after a judge said he must be held accountable for the irreversible suffering he'd caused in the September 2015 crash north of Toronto.

Superior Court Justice Michelle Fuerst noted Muzzo had already accrued a lengthy record of driving infractions — many of them for speeding — when he made the fateful decision to drink and drive after returning home from a trip to Miami.

Muzzo pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two of impaired driving causing bodily harm and was to serve nine years and four months after credit for time served.

Correctional Service Canada says Muzzo will be eligible for day parole in November 2018, full parole in May 2019 and statutory release on June 18, 2022, and faces a 12-year driving ban, which will take effect on his release from custody.

Remember - farmers and waitresses are "big fish", not like Trudeau and Morneau who are scraping to get by:

Not only is the Prime Minister’s “family fortune” the focus of opposition attacks over the government’s proposed tax reforms, but the finance minister’s wealth is also being contrasted with the struggles faced by mom-and-pop business-owners and farmers, who fear they will be side-swiped by the proposed changes to private corporations.

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If the federal government brings in their proposed tax changes, led by Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, incorporated small businesses across Canada will be forced to close their holdings companies and opt instead for other retirement savings strategies... like the private pension plans offered by Morneau Shepell.

So who really stands to benefit from the legislation that's being positioned as changes to make the tax system fairer?

That's right: Bill Morneau, major shareholder in Canada's largest pension corporation. Bill Morneau, Canada's Federal Finance Minister. 

(Merci)