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ShatsBassoon

Throwing bombs & banging moms
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Jan 14, 2015
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Yeah fuck those immigrants!!!

Btw… how is the new life in New Zeland treating you?
Problem isn't immigration, the problem is housing. But that's the elephant in the room, isn't it?

New Zealand is great, reminds me a lot of growing upon the island.
 

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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Five men attacked in drive-by shooting outside Scarborough mosque during Ramadan: police

Toronto police say a group of men who had just finished midnight prayers were “randomly attacked” in a drive-by shooting in Scarborough early Saturday morning.

At around 1 a.m., a group of individuals celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan gathered in a parking lot to discuss where to eat after they had just finished praying, in the area of Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue East, police said.

“While they were here and just getting ready to leave, shots rang out. And unfortunately five individuals were struck by those bullets from what we believe came from perhaps a vehicle on Markham Road that was traveling by,” Acting Staff Supt. David Rydzik said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.

Four men were found at the scene with gunshot wounds and transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

A fifth victim, who also sustained non-life-threatening injuries, made his own way to hospital.

Police said the victims are between 28 and 35 years old, and some are married with children.

“Three of those five have been released from hospital right now and the other two are expected to make a very good recovery,” Rydzik said.

At least six shots were fired at the men but it’s unknown how many suspects were involved in the shooting, according to Rydzik.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Jan 11, 2016
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Man arrested and charged for Inciting Hatred

On April 14th, 2022, Ottawa Police Service Hate Crime Unit charged a man with Inciting Hatred in a public place, pertaining to events that took place on March 12th, 2022 in the 100 block of Wellington Street.

At approximately 5:20pm, a man was seen waving a known racist hateful flag, making heinous gestures, and shouting hateful slurs. No one was injured in this incident.

Amine BATBOUTI, 34 years old of Montreal was charged with Inciting Hatred in a public place.

He is to appear in court at a later date.
 

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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Poilievre defends investments in rental properties while campaigning to address housing affordability
While the Ottawa-area MP and his family live in a $550,000 lakeside home in Greely, Ont., south of Ottawa, his wife, Anaida Poilievre, owns a rental property in a semi-detached home in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans.


She paid $238,000 for the home in 2012, before they were married, but last June took out a $250,000 mortgage on it from Tangerine Bank, which registered a $425,000 charge against the property.


With interest rates climbing, economists have cautioned Canadians against using their homes as “ATMs” – borrowing against their rising equity. But Poilievre defended his wife’s decision to leverage the value of the property.


“She followed all of the rules and used the equity that she has built up through a very responsible and intelligent investment, to maximize the best interests of her financial position,” the MP said Thursday.


After the press conference, Anaida Poilievre approached a CTV News journalist to say she was proud of her investment and that, next time, the reporter should ask her to her face.


Pierre Poilievre also followed up with CTV News after the event to say, “My wife started off with humble beginnings and she invested in a rental property to protect her financial independence.”


He said he was proud of her investment savvy.


Poilievre controls 50 per cent of the voting shares in Liberty West Properties Inc., an Alberta corporation that owns a unit in a townhouse complex on 90th Ave. S.E. in Calgary.


The remainder of the shares in the firm are controlled by his friend, former Alberta justice minister Jonathan Denis, and Denis’s mother, Marguerite, according to corporate records.


The company bought the home in 2006 for $249,000.
A Statistics Canada report last week said that Canadians who buy second homes as investments contribute to rising prices.