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You're engaging in the same "confirmation bias" that you accuse others of. This CBS report uses the term "Law enforcement sources". Please don't run off and move the goalposts by splitting hairs on something else. Until we get the full story, we can only try and put the pieces together - because that's what us amateur sleuths do! The fact that there is a reasonable chance that this is a terrorism related crime doesn't make us all racists. Contrast the recent "walk on eggshells" reporting on Faisal Hussain with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and all the questionably biased reporting (to put it mildly)......... Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/faisal-hussain-toronto-shooting-rampage-new-details-emerge-about-gunman-2018-07-24/?setDevice=amp

Sure...and the Wall Street Journal reports EU concessions to Trump...this is a fun game to play:

I'm surprised at Tory. He's considering legal challenge! Tory's proving to be a grand a**hole. I'm glad Ford didn't become mayor of Toronto........and Tory didn't end up Premier of Ontario!

So now the Liberals are once again planning to further curtail the rights of law-abiding citizens even as they are getting softer on criminals and on potential terrorists, arm smugglers and gang members who don't gIve a fig abot the law. A total ban on handguns will not reduce crime. Cracking down on criminals will. meanwhile our illustrious pm is still surfing but I bet if this had been an attack on a mosque we would hear from him. Actually this is an abdication of leadership but I bet he shows at the funerals for photo ops

My oh my...things are getting testy in Canada over illegals irregular border crossings:

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released in the spring I believe 48% of respondents favored immediate deportation of the illegal/irregular migrants and 36% favored permitting them to stay. When Doug Ford demanded that the federal government pick up all the cost for this fiasco I believe polling indicated overwhelming support among Ontarians for Ford's position. And that view is probably echoed across the country. There is an elite political consensus on immigration-related issues at the federal level - well, with reservations expressed by some Conservatives - but there's a lot more skepticism in the broader population. At some point, one has to believe, voters will get to express their displeasure and hopefully our feckless federal politicians will hear the message loudly and clearly.

Fox news says your Canadian tax dollar is paying for a nice hotel for illegal immigrants.

Love hearing the wailing and crying from Toronto city councillors on the news today. Doug Ford is a tyrant, a threat to democracy, the next Trump... the next Hitler! Their whining is like music, their tears, like drops of gold.

I suggest that they are reacting to the same thing that gets the ire of many ordinary folks. We know was BS looks like and smells like. We don't need to taste it, to figure it out. IE. The thing that causes such wild speculation, that leads to inflammatory comments is because liberals speak out of both sides of their mouths. The guy was a deranged person, that's clear. The guy expressed his desire to kill someone, anyone. The guy went to ISIS web sites. I'm no Einstein but I can figure out that he did it "in the name of" something. We've seen this before... disconnected terrorist sympathiser gets a bad idea. The authorities need to control the message, to prevent people from associating any such crackpot with Muslims at large. But leaving an information vacuum does not do the trick. People seek to fill in the blanks. In that regard, the government does ordinary Muslims a disservice.

Downsizing the government is always a dam good thing to be doing for the over burdened taxpayer's of Ontario and Canada. You know the ones that are being forced to pay for the rest of the world while some Canadians sleep on streets. You liberals are all alike. Deplorable.

You're a curmudgeon - absolutely no fun at all.....and perhaps just a wee bit pompous.

1.) No, that is up to you to do. You've made a statement which you refuse to substantiate. It's not up to me to prove it's incorrect if you can't even prove the veracity of your own claim. 2.) The truth should have come out by now. Didn't you read Ms. Malcolm's column in the Toronto Sun on the abysmal fashion in which this incident is being handled? Anybody concerned about a free and objective press should be concerned about what's going on. We're becoming a banana republic, apparently.

Huh? What does that even mean? He went to self-help groups, maybe? I've read anecdotal accounts indicating that he appeared quite happy and well adjusted. I also watched an interview on a TV news item with a woman who taught or coached him in a community-based program, who indicated that he exhibited pretty garden-variety emotional problems similar to others from broken families and difficult backgrounds. I've seen and read absolutely nothing to substantiate the notion that he was ever diagnosed with a serious mental illness. Personally, I think the official narrative is being manipulated, as the journalist Candice Malcolm has argued to be the case. Why public officials aren't being open about what they know of the shooter's background and motives is both puzzling and troubling. It's especially problematic that information that is coming to light is from leaks, which suggests that some (many?) involved in the investigation are becoming frustrated by the lack of transparency.

I believe I have been doing so, and so have most people. A few have merely voiced suspicions that the facts are being withheld for progressive ideology. If he's a terrorist we look at what caused his beliefs, and perhaps we look again at the advisability of importing tens of thousands of people every year from places where social values and views are what we would call "extremist' were they owned by a Canadian.

The actual family or an unsigned media piece crafted by a professional spin doctor.

The point you make is essentially identical to that a friend discussed with me earlier today. He suspects a political agenda underlies the bizarrely secretie fashion in which the Danforth investigation has been handled. The most chilling aspect of the quotation you cite from my post is that it's from a column written by Candice Malcolm, a journalist who clearly seems to be frustrated by the extent to which information about the Danforth investigation is apparently being managed and media coverage is being manipulated. One has to be concerned about how and why this is happening in a democracy. I feel sorry for the shooter's victims and the fact that those deaths and injuries may have been eclipsed while the perpetrator is somehow morally absolved of his crimes on grounds of, as Malcolm puts it, "an unverified claim about mental illness." It sets up an outrageous equivalency, if you ask me.

Journalists may unwittingly be playing into the hands of the Liberal government who would like nothing more than to sweep this matter from the front pages and social media. Persuading the public that mental illness is at play and not terrorism is most probably a very good outcome for the Liberals.

Slimy, lyin' CBC and CTV are both reading from the same script. They make sure to point out that slashing city council wasn't a promise that Ford ran on during the election...... .....and yet they both say that there's hardly any details in his election platform. If there's hardly any detail, how did they know it wasn't part of it? Could it be it's part of his promise to cut the size of government??

Evidence of his being crazy would be at least some help. So far all we have is the family saying he was.

My point, of course, if you actually read my posts, is that at this point there's absolutely no officially confirmed evidence of ANYTHING to substantiate ANY narrative. So, why is the mental illness narrative assumed to be valid when emerging leaks suggest there may be a much more disturbing aspect to the story? Isn't your approach an example of wishful and uncritical thinking? My guess is that the alleged leaks suggest growing frustration on the part of some officials that important information is being withheld from the public. That's a pretty normal assumption when such leaks emerge. Why did the AP/CBS information get little play in Canadian media outlets? Why are more mainstream media investigators and reporters, who seem to be coming to realization that evidence is being withheld and/or manipulated, not speaking out in the fashion that an obviously frustrated Candice Malcolm of the Toronto Sun has? Are jobs on the line? Who knows, but this debacle appears to illustrate the sorry state of Canada's "free press" in the post-M-103 era. If this is the best our public officials and mainstream media can do, we no longer live in an actual democracy. The apparent political/media suppression to date of details about this event has become the emerging story, which unfortunately undermines the respect deserved by the true victims, those who were shot and killed on the Danforth.

Read my response to Michael Hardner's post before making up your mind. Leaks have emerged from inside the investigation suggesting that the situation may be much more complicated than the "mental illness" explanation accommodates. You and some other commenters on here seem to think that anybody who doesn't accept the mental illness explanation, which by the way has been confirmed by none of the relevant authorities, has an agenda and that those who accept the unconfirmed mental illness narrative are somehow more informed and enlightened than those who don't. Your "based on what I've read" rationale provides evidence of nothing in this case as it's been a largely speculative narrative from the get-go. Further, twenty percent of the population suffer mental illness at some point in their lives and there's anecdotal evidence that Mr. Hussain recently seemed quite stable. You seem to be operating on quite the double standard, if you ask me, where speculation about mental illness is portrayed as amounting to credible evidence and granting slowly emerging facts increasing weight is somehow construed as proof of discreditable motivation.

Pretty good french, Texan.

Giving farmers 12 billion kinda explains it all EU-1 TRUMP-0

This guy fled to Canada with his family from the U.S. but now wishes he hadn't.....damn immigration lawyer took all his money !

I love it.....Canadians are very generous and welcoming, and there is lots of room in Canada, but Canadians hate spending money !

Not a Trump hotel I hope, or is that what Fox is whining about?

Being mentally ill or mentally unstable is only one part of the puzzle and quite frankly, I don't care if he was - or wasn't. Sadly, there are too many people in Canada who are burdened with mental illness - but they don't go on killing sprees. So the other piece is why Faisal Hussain did so. His apparent advanced skills with the gun is also troubling - as is the possible targeting of white people - as is his visiting of ISIS sites - as is his possible/likely living in Afghanistan and/or Pakistan. And you can't discount the still-fresh impact of the Yonge street Jihadist episode. Even the Ottawa Parliament killing was "Isis inspired". People have the right to think "what now?". Of lesser concern at this time is the claim by ISIS that he was one of their "soldiers" - because they've been known for unproven bluster. In summary, there's lots more than idle speculation in play. To say there is "no story here" is an ostrich-worthy comment.

1. Nothing. What has Trudeau done to you ? Also when I search for stuff you hate I just get a lot of "I hate Jews" and "the Metric system" What did the Metric system ever do to you ? Make you divide by 10 ? 2. I have answered you. Trump doesn't bother me as much as the hypocrites and liars who support him do.

In way more important news, Mike Pompeo give testimony over Helsinki and other issue.

Surely by now everyone knows Trump didn't write it or anything else. The ghostwriter has been interviewed many times and he says Trump is an idiot and never read a book in the whole time he knew him, much less could write one. He had such a short attention span he couldn't even sit still for interviews so the guy had to kind of just hang around instead. Which makes me wonder why anyone would recommend it. The two possibilities are 1. complete ignorance about the man or 2. trolling.