And the Rest of It

ISIS thugs are rapists and murderers. Surely even the Liberals are willing to limit their numbers in Canada:

Professor Amarnath Amarasingam said he had been in contact with the families of Canadian women who had been through the registration process, which also involved having iris scans.

“Everyone in the camp, Canadians included, are now being fingerprinted and scanned,” the Queen’s University terrorism expert said on Monday. ...

Global Affairs Canada said it was aware of reports about the registration drive. The government has so far taken no steps to bring captured ISIS members back to Canada.

Yet.


Also:

Alleged ISIS recruiter Awso Peshdary has become the “Don” of his Ottawa jail and was behind the assault of another inmate, according to allegations contained in court records obtained by Global News.

The allegations surfaced in court after Peshdary, arrested in 2015 following an RCMP counter-terrorism operation, applied to be released from custody to await the remainder of his trial.

According to the court documents, inmate Darren Pearce made “serious allegations” about the influence wielded by Peshdary at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, where both are held.

Being a Liberal means never having the obliging press reveal your (alleged) stalking:

As Marwan Tabbara sat in jail on Easter weekend after his arrest on allegations he broke into a home he had stalked for months and assaulted a man and woman inside, the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament may have thought his world was about to explode.

Instead, he slipped out the next day, after a bail hearing held via video with a court official 120 kilometres away from his Ontario riding, and with local police not saying a word.

RE - smoldering exclamation point:

The Canadian military knew in 2016 the ejection seat on Snowbirds aircraft needed to be upgraded but it is still only in the early stages of modernizing that system.

The Royal Canadian Air Force has now started a project to upgrade the parachutes on the ejection seats, the Canadian military confirmed to this newspaper.

Hasn't the coronavirus killed enough elderly people?:

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has cancelled a pivotal meeting on Monday for a hospice society in Delta, B.C., that does not allow medical assistance in dying.

One of three former board members of the Irene Thomas Hospice who petitioned the court to stop the meeting says the judge gave them a “complete victory.”

Chris Pettypiece said Sunday the judge also ruled that the current board acted in bad faith to manipulate a vote by rejecting applications for those who wanted to be members of the Delta Hospice Society.

Pettypiece said Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick ordered on Friday that the current board provide a list of rejected memberships and ruled it must accept memberships for those who were turned away.

“We’re delighted with the outcome,” Pettypiece said. “I think while it’s a complete victory in the context of our petition, it’s the start of a longer journey, or it’s the next important step and milestone in a longer journey. ...

B.C.’s Health Ministry announced last year that it was withdrawing $1.5 million in annual funding, covering about 94 per cent of the cost to run the facility, because the society won’t comply with provincial policies on medical assistance in dying.

Pettypiece, who sat on the society’s board from 2011 to 2019, said the dispute goes back to 2016 when the federal government introduced the law for medically assisted death.

Those opposed became dominate on the board and ousted anyone who didn’t align with their ideals, he said.

“There was a stacking of membership that caused a balance of opinion in the membership that isn’t representative of the community.

Oh, North Korea!:

North Korea's military said Tuesday it is reviewing plans to reenter border areas disarmed under inter-Korean agreements, days after the North threatened to take military action over the sending of leaflets by activists from South Korea. 

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) also revealed that the North would send its own propaganda leaflets into the South, saying it is considering opening front-line areas and waters off the southwest coast to cooperate for a "large-scale leaflet scattering struggle against the enemy."

"Our army is keeping a close watch on the current situation in which the north-south relations are turning worse and worse, and getting itself fully ready for providing a sure military guarantee to any external measures to be taken by the Party and government," the General Staff said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

The KPA is studying "an action plan for taking measures to make the army advance again into the zones that had been demilitarized under the north-south agreement, turn the front line into a fortress and further heighten the military vigilance against the south," it said.

What some people will do for their pets:

Trent Tweddale says he was walking his dog, Loki, on Monday morning on his farm in Pasco County, Fla., where the river had swelled after recent torrential rains.

As the six-year-old rescue dog was walking through the water, Tweddale says, a 13-foot alligator attacked him. ...

Tweddale, a 32-year-old former Army staff sergeant, did what any dog lover would do: he punched the alligator in the face.

“I grabbed the dog’s collar to try to pull him back and I ended up in a tug-of-war match with this gator, and the gator was not letting go,” he said. “So I let go of the collar, and I got about knee-deep into the water and started pounding on the gator’s head until he eventually let go.”

Wow.