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That is more promising than finding him guilty at least. This is New York and you are almost certainly going to have some woke left winger on that jury who sees a white man killing a black man and nothing else. The only downside is that they will almost certainly prosecute him again, because why not. They are the state and they have all the power and money to do it again just to punish him with the process. Meanwhile, the same prosecutor on this case sympathized with a ATM robber that killed an old man and help give him a reduced sentence... Tired of this left-wing backward madness.

It is starting to look like a hung jury will be the result. The jury has apparently told the judge they cant come to a unanimous decision and the judge is considering the next move.

Now what can you do about Russian propaganda? Be sure to fact check material online, and make sure to scrutinise any article one may come across. Research the background of the author. Personally, I believe @CdnFox is the worst offender for spreading Russian propaganda. Unfortunately I have no concrete evidence that he is a Russian shill, but my gut feeling tells me that he is. I have decided to place CdnFox on ignore. There is no point countering his multiple lies. aside from that, I am unsure if others have been brainwashed by Russian propaganda, or are working for Russian based misinformation companies. The posting history of some members of this forum suggests that they want to circumvent Canadian sovereignty, and are openly supporting US interference of our country. It would not be a stretch to say that if America ever occupied Canada, they would be collaborators. We have to take precautions, and counter Russian misinformation. They want us divided, and that is not the Canadian way.

Why do you lie when it is so easily debunked? Axios is reporting no cuts. Axios is as lwnj as it gets.

Moscow’s disinformation is often shared unwittingly by Canadians who don’t know its origin or purpose. Canada needs to fight it with stronger actions. The emerging breadth and depth of Russian disinformation tactics represent a clear and present danger to Canadian sovereignty and freedom. Just as troubling, some Canadians consider Canada immune to Russian propaganda. It’s a mistaken belief that only helps these disinformation campaigns spread and take root. Modern-day Russian propaganda is relentless, pernicious and is widespread globally. It aims to dull critical thinking, divide society and undermine democracy. It challenges our commitment to open debate by replacing informed critical conversations with paid lies. Media and social influencers, academics, journalists, community leaders, politicians and others are increasingly caught in the dragnet of these surreptitious tactics. The many faces of Russian propaganda Propaganda created or supported by the Kremlin and spread from within the West is a vital component of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It aims to sow confusion about who is to blame for the war and doubt about the effectiveness or desirability of western support for Ukraine. Recent high-level warnings of Russian’s malicious actions include: – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent statement under oath that Russia is directly funding the prominent American provocateur Tucker Carlson to promote disinformation. – U.S. justice department revelations of the use of a Canadian-owned media company to spread Kremlin-generated propaganda. – Witnesses appearing before a House of Commons committee to raise concern that some members of the Russian state-run Valdai Club might be working as Russian propagandists. Many other examples abound. Yet, it’s an open question of how well the Canadian public and some of the country’s political leadership understand what is happening. Some visible forms of disinformation include angry online rants filled with outrageous and obvious lies about Russia’s war against Ukraine and bot and troll campaigns on social media. But these are not the primary threat. Rather, the Kremlin promotes a softer, more insidious approach that moves away from the sledgehammer to one based on the scalpel, which seeks to split open divides in western societies. This is achieved by funding content that appears domestic while furthering Moscow’s agenda and is unwittingly spread by those who don’t realize its origin and purpose. A key issue we are facing in Canada is the difficulty distinguishing between Russian propaganda and well-informed, constructive debate. As propaganda gets absorbed into everyday discourse, our democratic debates are reframed and made increasingly inflammatory. Polarization occurs. Moscow relentlessly exploits western citizens’ right to freedom of speech by insidiously inserting paid propaganda — chiefly into online networks — into those dialogues. Even for cultural, opinion, and political leaders, telling fact from fiction and propaganda from legitimate speech is not easy. Unfortunately, pointing this out often raises angry and defensive responses among those who find meaning or belonging in online communities, and even from experts saturated with Russian misinformation. In turn, those who raise the issue can find themselves under attack and branded as opponents to free speech. Safeguarding freedom of speech requires simultaneously preventing the distortion of facts targeted by Russian state-propaganda while fostering broad, vibrant, open, well-informed public conversation. War on Ukraine: conflicting narratives In the context of the Russian war on Ukraine, it is critical to remember that Russia does not hope to rally the West behind its illegal invasion. It uses its propaganda machine not to build Russia up but to tear Ukraine down. Taking its lead from Putin, Russian propaganda presents Ukraine’s continued resistance as futile or threatening escalation. Ukraine’s capitulation or acceptance of Russia’s partial conquest is framed as peacemaking. It presents western support for Ukraine as prolonging the war and obscures the obvious, that Russia can choose to halt its war and withdraw from Ukraine at any moment. And, right out of 1984, it blames Ukraine or NATO for the war that Russia started. Counteraction needed As the trickle of verifiable news of Russia’s interference in our democracy turns into a flood, and as Moscow continues its war against Ukraine, it is time for Canadians to act. Simply turning a blind eye to Russian propaganda will neither neutralize it nor make it go away. Canada is not waging an offensive information war against Russia, but we are most certainly a strategic target for Russian disinformation. Complacency will only invite an intensification of disinformation efforts and amplify the negative consequences. Fact-checking campaigns are worthy but reactive and do not stop the disinformation perpetrators. We know what Russia is doing with its disinformation campaign. There are numerous remedies that could be considered. These range from diplomatic expulsions to legislation to public-awareness building to supporting independent organizations in their pre-bunking interventions and more. Russia is actively attacking our democracy. Remaining on the current course is not an option. source; https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/russia-propaganda-canada/

Well, sure, consumers could do things to avoid becoming victims, but if they knew better they wouldn't in that situation in the first place. An elderly woman I know recently lost about $400 to a fake bank scam. There's a pretty long list of red flags that could have alerted her to the fact of the scam. But it's hard to blame the victim for not being smart or savvy enough to defend themselves. Tucker wasn't lying to people to take money directly from them, but he was lying to them for his own financial gain. There are a lot of dumb people out there. And there are ignorant people out there. Gullible people. -- A lot of them from a generation when those faces on the TV had a business model based on being trusted and reliable. Before the cable news infotainment wave. People who grew up with Walter Cronkite or Tom Brokaw just aren't prepared to vet and filter. They have no natural immunity. At any rate, yes, people who exploit others are victimizing the exploited. They are scamming them. Conning them. Those perpetrators are to blame for their actions and any damage the victims suffer.

It could very well be all but one thinks he is innocent and that one is DUI_Offender. Just there pissing everyone off like he does here.

This is something you see in both Canada and America, it's known as punishment by process. Police and prosecutors proceed with charges even if they know that the person will not be found guilty in the end because making them go through the effort of defending themselves is so horrific that even if they get off it will deter other people from the same behavior. And the lefts love of weaponizing the courts continues apace

Hers is the thing DUI, i really don't give a rats ass what you or others think about me...I know what i did do or did not do...........you can continue to lie as you normally do, which is very much on the record.... Most vets have issues of PTSD , seeing and doing what we had to you'd have to be a psycho not to have something....the fact i've already said that here in this forum is not new NEWS....

Penny restrained the man for as long as it took police to arrive, which was not excessive force. Those are the facts of the case.

I think ad hominems are a sign of bad debating, and generalizing any subgroup (including priests by the way) as being child molestors is akin to posting that you have no argument, only an opinion based on nothing. That said, people do get especially angry at hypocrites. So priests, moral majority types, and gold pulpit Christians will be metaphorically crucified with sharper nails than your run-of-the-mill mall pedo.

I really hope he gets off, but even if he does this is still terrible. Why would anyone want to protect innocent people ever again?

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm in the audience that's getting a free comedy show.

For being a smart guy, Elon Musk is pretty dumb about people. Chalk it up to neurodiversity if you like, but his gross mismanagement of Twitter/X is ample evidence of his unfitness to run the human side of of an enterprise. Right after the acquisition, before he understood the company at all, he started cutting "unnecessary" roles and functions to disastrous results. Now we're going to replay that horror show on a national scale. Nobody likes waste and fraud. We just acknowledge that Musk is demonstrably unfit to make such judgments.

Which is a huge reason why I like this forum so much.

And he hasn't even been here a month.

I shake the hands of those who acknowledge that cold blooded murder is a terrible thing. If the system allowed a greedy organization, headed by a bad person, to hurt disadvantaged people and help the powerful then the system is bad. And maybe the person leading the CEO is bad. But if the system is bad, we have ways to fix it. We do.

Interesting. Are a lifetime supply of Depends and Kleenex Democrat requirements?

I thought we said that Poilievre could fix things easily?

She admits that the CBC was only allowing people to promote certain "experts" while demonizing others, regardless of their level of expertise.

Canada has succumb to Marxist Leninist tyranny imposed by the lunatic Liberal Party of Canada

Your gun laws are garbage. Your health insurance regulations are garbage. The results speak for themselves. Your post-secondary education system is a joke. So much of it is for profit charging kids/families out the nose and they're in debt for decades. Nobody in Canada has to worry much about college debt. The best universities in the country have sub-10k annual tuition. You've never experienced anything else so its normal to you. Your country's laws are highly controlled by wealthy corporation donors who just want to make money.

The voices of home grown Quislings get louder and louder. Canada no good anymore. It used to be We must obey the Yankee complete with the usual reasoning of I know you are but what am I?

Nice spin, but no sale. The bots are bad--and only more visible as the mass exodus of users continues. It's become even more of a cesspool of hate and disinformation. That's what has driven people out. It's what's driven the value into the toilet. This is is like a Brewster's Millions scheme where somebody dared Elon Musk to burn $40 billion dollars as fast as he could. Good news for Threads and Bluesky though.

I just listen to what they say. Given his stated goal of shutting down the iRS I think he would make cuts that would impair it's ability to carry out it's core functions. What evidence do you have that these agents are accountants? I didn't call "people that disagree with me" bots and Nazis. I called the bots and Nazis bots and Nazis.

ROFLMAO!!! Says the guy who thinks repeating "guffaw guffaw" 1000 times is deep thinking Ohhh look!! You've learned to mimick your betters !! You're almost as smart as a bird now 🍿🍿🍿 [munch munch] 🍿🍿🍿

Not my country, i spilled blood for this country, i love what Canada use to be....what i hate are just the people like you in it...

Thankfully no, but I've been on the other end and I'll tell you I'd rather get laid off than be denied life saving medical treatment and it's not particularly close. Yeah all the good sucking dick in the truck stop bathroom jobs were taken by you.

A tale of two cases. In this other one, a man felt threatened on the subway and stabbed another person to death.

SS/Medicare simply need a different funding formula. Demand> supply due to an aging population. Benefits paid need to decrease. On the supply side, they could use some automation as a way of cost savings.

I get it you think America is screwed up ...so what is it you love about Canada that is not available in the US. What makes Canada so much better that you don't want to leave it...

I wouldn't be terribly worried about whether he's going to be offered a management position. I rather doubt anyone's even going to give him a job

Right no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid planned except for the planned cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid: "Right now, there are hundreds of billions of dollars flowing out the door of all of those programs ending up in the hands of people who, even under the statute, should not be receiving those payments," Ramaswamy contended.

Yes. I used to work with one. We were lunch buddies. She declared herself liberal, but she ended up agreeing with me most of the time. lol

You have every right to be sceptical, Michael. Knowing the history of Musk and Ramaswarmy, who became rich by either playing the system, or in Ramaswarmy's case, borderline criminal activities. Here's a spoiler. It's not going to work. All it will do, is accelerate the gap between rich and poor. America is moving towards a trajectory, that will see the nation mimic what it was like living in Russia, before the Bolshevik revolution. People eventually rose up, and took over the government.

The irony here is that this country just elected a regime that ran heavily on the idea of deregulating business--of removing legal standards that protect the general public interest (the "little guy") from powerful, monied interests. We're not going to fix the system. The same voters who are desperately sick of this situation--to the point of tolerating retaliatory murder--are the same voters who checked the box for unregulated crony capitalism. 🤷‍♂️

My gosh you’re coming late to the party. I know quite a lot about this going back to Lovelock’s book Gaia which talked about climate change in the 70’s. I don’t dispute that climate change is real and humans are influencing it. What is highly contestable is the extent of human influence on natural warming and cooling cycles, as well as the degree to which we can mitigate our influence through policy in relation to cost. To be honest these ideas were heavily discussed years ago. Also, you complained about Musk, whose EV technology and battery technology has probably made the single biggest impact on the switch away from combustion engines. These are complex issues without easy answers. Note that Canada has carbon taxes and the US doesn’t, yet their emissions have declined and ours are rising. You need to study energy. I have a $33000 solar power system on my roof that produces little power. I bought into the myth that we could power our energy grid through solar and wind, which are completely inadequate to the task. They actually require the backstopping of oil and gas when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, because you can’t dial up or down nuclear and hydro on demand. There’s a lot of shallow ignorance on these topics I don’t have time to explain why DEI is extremely problematic, particularly the diversity ideological take on equity. I’ve done years of reading on the topic Of course equality and making people feel included are important What I’m criticizing has zero to do with that. I want to reduce the rate of human made global warming too. LGBTQ2S+ are welcome to my social circle too. Most people agree about these things in a general sense, but you have to dig into the particulars of these topics to discern the consequences of potential policies and approaches. On some of these issues I’ve revised my views because I’ve seen the unintended consequences or ideological creep, etc

He's not going to do that, especially after my response that destroyed his attempt at discrediting the data.

I'll take any allegations against Mr Watters with a grain of salt. The woke's go to appears to be allegations of sex perversions. All because they want to mutilate children. Sad There are legitimate perverts out there. It's just too bad that woke folks have decided to levy multiple fake allegations against conservatives making any legitimate allegations tough to decipher

There's a huge demographic of seniors they can inheritance tax away instead of stealing Elon's billions.

It was obviously a joke, because Canada would never join as a single state. If Canada ceased to exist as we currently do there's too much dividing us for western and eastern Canada to remain linked together. Quebec and Alberta both have a large share of separatists as it stands right now. It's almost 50% in Que and has been for a long time, if elections are to be believed. It would be more logical for NA to divide into separate northeast coast, east-coast, central, west coast, and northern nations. Alberta and NY have nothing in common. Nfld and California would hate each other. Texas and Quebec would hate each other more. Just imagine Quebec in a country where they can't take what they want from the other states/provinces.... They'd be miserable. I could see the GTA as part of an east coast country. Quebec alone. The Maritimes and Nfld maybe joining with Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, NH, etc. The prairies and central USA together. BC with Oregon and Cali. I can't imagine it all as one big country. I think it would start to fracture almost instantly, into the groups I mentioned.

The CBC should just buy stories from the Canadian Press and leave it at that. Just report the news. The 2 top stories on CBC News at this very moment are 2 articles critical of Israel written by an Arab CBC reporter, one of the article calling what's happening in Gaza "genocide". https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amnesty-international-report-israel-genocide-1.7401842 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-mawasi-tent-camp-strike-israel-1.7402036 Uhh maybe it would be a good idea to have your reporters on the Israel/Palestine conflict not Jewish or Arab? Ya think???

Then what a great opportunity to step in and shed some light on that link.

So what you're saying is you prefer corruption to competence. Trudeau has literally destroyed this country. Double the debt, none of our government departments are working properly, turn people against each other, and even managed to start turning people off of climate change initiatives and against immigrants and all the while stealing massive amounts of taxpayer money and funneling it into friendly organizations along with many of his ministers. What could you possibly imagine Poilievre is going to do that is somehow worse than this?

Oh FFS Herbie shows his TDS is alive and well.

This is how Canada should deal with Donald Trump, irrational actor ANDREW COYNE PUBLISHED 29 MINUTES Good to see no one is panicking. The president-elect of the United States, in a late-night social-media outburst, has declared he would impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico – on his first day in office, yet. He does not necessarily have that authority – constitutionally, tariffs are Congress’s responsibility – but would have to rely on untested emergency powers, exposing him to legal challenges. If implemented, the tariffs would cause immense havoc, not least for Americans, raising prices for consumers and blowing up integrated continental supply chains, exposing him to political blowback. They are also, needless to say, explicitly prohibited under the trilateral free trade agreement to which he is a signatory. The whole idea is so insane that everyone assumes it must be a negotiating tactic – that when Donald Trump ties the tariffs to the two countries’ alleged failure to stem the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens into the United States, he means he would lift the tariffs if they somehow achieved this. Or if they did something else, or something in addition. But no one knows. He also likes tariffs for their own sake. For that matter, he likes issuing threats for their own sake. And he’s not even president yet. Nevertheless, hardly had the post left his fingertips when prominent voices in this country were heard demanding – well, demanding all sorts of things, none of them sensible. Even in advance of Mr. Trump’s latest threat, the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, had called for Mexico to be thrown out of NAFTA. Now he wants to blow up bilateral trade, demanding that Canada retaliate against Mr. Trump’s insane and self-destructive tariffs with insane and self-destructive tariffs of its own. Other voices urged a more – what shall we call it? – conciliatory line. Or perhaps “servile” would be better: what the historian and political theorist Timothy Snyder has called “anticipatory obedience.” The Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, not content with urging the Canadian government to negotiate at the point of a metaphoric gun, actively took Mr. Trump’s side, noting his “valid concerns” about “illegal activities at our shared border.” The Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe, agreed, noting “we can all benefit from additional border security stopping the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across our borders.” The Premier of Quebec, François Legault, took to social media to fret about the “enormous risk” to Quebec’s economy from Mr. Trump’s tariff threat and demand that “everything possible” be done to avoid it. He offered Justin Trudeau “the full co-operation of the Quebec government” in this regard, by which he meant, as he later clarified, that Quebec must have a place at the negotiating table. As for the federal opposition leaders, they ranged from belligerent (Jagmeet Singh wants a “war room” to “fight like hell”) to irrelevant (Pierre Poilievre says the tariffs are an occasion to axe the carbon tax, as if this had anything to do with anything). Various others could be heard insisting that the Trump tariff threat was proof that it was now time to do whatever they had always advocated doing. All of which is not to endorse the Trudeau government’s approach, so far as it has one. But if the government seems uncertain about how to proceed, it is at least not taking out a billboard to advertise how panicked and compliant it is. It has at least not seized the opportunity, in the early days of what looks to be a lengthy crisis, to say something provably stupid, or appallingly self-serving. It has at least not turned its guns inward, or deserted the country in the face of the enemy. Let’s all take a deep breath, shall we? And after we have, let us agree that there is no practical benefit in attempting to meet Mr. Trump’s demands: because it is wrong to appease a bully, for starters; because to do so can only invite further demands, and further threats; because his “concerns” are not, in fact, “valid” – the amount of fentanyl entering the U.S. from Canada is trivial (U.S. customs agents seized a grand total of 43 pounds of it in the last fiscal year), the number of illegal migrants scarcely less so (U.S. border patrol officers stopped fewer than 24,000 people last year, compared to more than 1.5 million crossing from Mexico); because it is each country’s responsibility to control its own borders, that is, to police the entry of people and goods, not to demand that others police their exit; because if it were such an “easily solvable” matter as Mr. Trump, in his endless devotion to easy solutions, pretends, it would have been done long ago. There is not, in short, a great deal we can do to satisfy Mr. Trump, and if there were, we would have no assurance that he would remain satisfied for long. There is no point in negotiating with terrorists. As Trump threatens tariffs, here are five things we know so far (It’s not even a negotiation. A negotiation is when each side comes to the table, not only with demands, but with something to offer in return. Just threatening to do something horrible if your demands are not met is not negotiating. It’s blackmail. It’s the difference between offering to write a story in exchange for money and threatening to.) More than that, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of Mr. Trump – a trap that those of us in the reality-based world continue to fall into, which is to attribute to him a rationality he does not possess. It is irrational enough to threaten to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on your nearest neighbours and major trading partners, for problems they did not cause. It is doubly irrational as a response to problems that are, in fact, subsiding: The number of unauthorized crossings on the Mexican border is falling, not rising (monthly encounters in September, at 54,000, were down 75 per cent from the year previous; for the entire fiscal year, they were down 14 per cent), as are the number of fentanyl deaths (off 10 per cent this year). Nevertheless, there is at least in this a notional rationality, a potential for rationality, a theoretical connection between putative cause and putative effect, if not in this world then in some world it is possible to imagine. The idea, often expressed, that Mr. Trump is essentially “transactional” – that he may not be guided by the usual principles of statecraft, let alone any of the higher ideals, but is at least intelligible in purely “what’s in it for me” terms – is based on attributing to him a kind of grubby rationality, as if he were merely a debased version of ourselves. Except there’s no evidence that that’s how he actually thinks. He is not rational, and does not think far enough ahead to connect cause and effect in the usual ways. He is a narcissistic psychopath – a Neroist, as I have called him. His primary motive is not self-interest, as we might understand it, but self-aggrandizement, the constant nourishing and enlargement of his vision of himself, which in his case can only be achieved by destroying everything else. In every situation, then, he will do, not merely the wrong thing, but the worst possible thing; the worse it is, and the more damage it causes, the more the people he despises object, and the greater his feeling of triumph. How else to explain, for example, his choices for cabinet: an apparent Russian asset for Director of National Intelligence, a prophet of civil war for Defence Secretary, a vaccine-denier for Health Secretary, an alleged statutory rapist for Attorney-General and so on. I think we have to look at the current crisis, then, not through the lens of trade or diplomacy or even extortion, but through the psychology of a deeply disturbed man. Grovelling before him, for example, as some of our Premiers seem inclined to do, is unlikely to assuage him: It’s the sort of thing he lives for. Caving to his demands, likewise, is futile: not because he will rationally conclude that our willingness to accept a first demand suggests we might concede to others, but because the dopamine high he experiences from dominating others will take control of him, demanding to be supplied with further hits. What should we do instead? 1. Play for time. Whatever he might imagine, Mr. Trump was elected with the thinnest of mandates. He is, what is more, a lame duck: The clock began ticking on his presidency from the day he was elected, as it is ticking on his mental and physical health. His thirst for dictatorship is real, but is in competition with his emotional instability and sheer incompetence. The longer time goes on, the more mistakes he is likely to make, and the weaker he is likely to become, politically and otherwise. 2. Prey upon his weaknesses. Probe his psyche. Figure out his break points. Do not be afraid to annoy him. Most people do stupid things when they’re angry; multiply by 100 in the case of Mr. Trump. Tempt him to give into his demons; lead him onto the rocks of his own intemperance. His mistakes are your opportunities. 3. Stand together. Work with allies, in Canada – yes, that means getting the Premiers onside, if only to shut them up – in Washington and state capitals, around the world. We are dealing with a dangerous lunatic. That is inescapable, at least for the foreseeable future. As with the Soviet Union, we cannot defeat him. But we can contain him. 4. Stand up straight. Ultimately we can’t control what Mr. Trump does. We can, however, control what we do. Maybe we can’t prevent him from wrecking the North American economy, or whatever else he decides to do to us. But we can at least maintain our dignity, our composure and our self-respect. That’s not the only thing that matters, but it’s something. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-this-is-how-canada-should-deal-with-donald-trump-irrational-actor/?login=true

Nice try but, seriously? Did she present the emails and transcripts of meetings amongst CBC executives as evidence of this demonization that was being allowed? Of course she's not testifying in any sort of official inquiry so who needs evidence? This inquiry is just a right-wing whack-job witch-hunt started by Presto Manning. I guess the CBC's human resources department just fu cks up on occassion and hires a right-wing loon. Take Rex Murphy for example.