#REPORT: Two men have been charged in Woodstock, Ontario:
- A 35-year-old living in London, Ontario for sexual and aggravated assault against a woman
-A 27-year-old local for "assault with a weapon" while intervening to protect the woman from the alleged rapist
GameStop $GME is looking good. Right down the line.
Tomorrow is going to be very interesting to see if it follows this May 2024 pattern or if it continues gradually ramping like August 2020 instead.
I'll keep you updated.
Judge gives drunk driver lenient sentence despite killing 12-year-old girl ⚖️
Ontario Justice Gethin Edward handed out a two-year house arrest sentence to Darris Wilson, citing the man's Indigenous background as the rationale, despite Wilson killing a 12-year-old girl and severely injuring her mother in the February 2022 crash.
On February 11, 2022, Darris Wilson's Dodge Ram pickup — strewn with empty and partially consumed beer cans — slammed head-on into a Mitsubishi carrying Naomi Beverly and her daughter, Sierra.
Wilson was driving 90 km/h in a 50 km zone and made no attempt to brake. Sierra, just 12-years-old at the time, was killed at the scene. Her mother Naomi suffered debilitating brain injuries for which she still requires 24-hour care.
But the judge in Wilson's case citied "colonialism" while handing the man a very lenient sentence. @SheilaGunnReid and @DreaHumphrey broke down the sentencing on Tuesday's Rebel Roundup.
Dangerous driving causing death carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. The Crown requested four years in prison, itself a number Sheila described as already light given the facts.
Justice Gethin Edward gave Wilson two years of house arrest. His sentencing decision focused predominantly on how Canada's colonial past had turned Wilson into a drunk driver, ruling that Wilson "suffered from cultural disconnection as a result of colonization, which crystallized into the tragic events of February 11th, 2022."
The judge framed the four-year sentence requested by the Crown as a government effort to rob Wilson of his heritage, writing that "Mr. Wilson's efforts to regain his culture, that which was taken from him and his family in a systemic fashion by the government of Canada, will once again be taken by the state if the court imposes a four-year penitentiary sentence."
He described the light sentence as "a small but necessary gesture" to help erase Canada's colonial past.
The hosts also dug into the judge's history, drawing on reporting by the National Post's @TristanHopper.
In 2024, Edward was named a visiting Indigenous scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University, with school officials praising his work to "decolonize Canada's legal system." The justice has previously removed Canadian and Ontario flags from his courtroom to accommodate an Indigenous witness.
Also in 2024, he ruled in favour of a Six Nations mother who wished to stop chemotherapy for her 11-year-old daughter suffering from leukemia in order to pursue traditional remedies, finding that McMaster Children's Hospital's effort to ensure the child received potentially life-saving care violated the family's constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights.
Drea connected the ruling to a broader pattern, noting Gladue principles — the legal requirement that courts consider an Indigenous offender's background and systemic factors when sentencing — are baked into Canadian law regardless of the individual judge.
"Even if you don't have an activist judge," she said, "you have an actual law that must be applied." She also referenced the ongoing case of Taig Savage, a BC victim whose mother Tracey Savage has been publicly asking where the justice is for her daughter, with plea deals reportedly in play and publication bans limiting what can be reported.
Sheila said the Edward decision is a strong argument for keeping the notwithstanding clause in the Constitution. "You need to be able to override activist judges in the interest of protecting justice," she said. "This is insane."
💥NEW REPORT: The Canadian Armed Forces write diversity and inclusion into their housing plan but deny putting diversity first—while Canadian troops live in their cars.
🧵Full story in the thread:
@CanadianForces knew. They knew they would kill & maim their people for a pathogen with ZERO deaths in the ranks. Eyre and Carignan ordered a massacre of their own troops. There is no justification for what they did as CDS & VCDS. Anand was MND.
@McnabbRick79393@LichTamara I agree we aren't at war. But if we were I think we'd do fine. Look at the size of Iraq and Afghanistan and they couldn't hold that ground. Just leave the cities and wait for them to get tired.
@Edgar_Robierets@LichTamara It's such a divided country. You talk to people who don't watch CBC and ask them if we are at war with a certain country and they won't even know what you are talking about.
September is shaping up to be a huge month for our J208 program and the future of autonomous flight.
Former fighter pilot @maxabusa spent his career flying with a stick and a rudder.
The pilot commanding the J208 uses a keyboard, a mouse, and a microphone.
New Joby Recon loading... ⏳
What They’re NOT Telling You About Canadian Campuses -
‼️Incoming Arts & Science students at Concordia University are being welcomed to campus with a frosh program featuring workshops on
“Palestinian Liberation”,
“Anti-Colonial Harm Reduction”,
"Sex Work",
and “Grassroots Militancy,”
alongside programming connected to QPIRG Concordia’s “DisOrientation”.
This is my first video report on @RebelNewsOnline!!
What do you think- should this be what orientation for first-year university students look like?
https://t.co/2jondGi51F
Toronto homeowner charged after opening fire on car thieves as suspects escape
Authorities say the suspects who attempted to steal the homeowner's vehicle remain outstanding.
https://t.co/K11oSpBPXT
BREAKING: Toronto Police just fined our billboard truck driver outside WNBA game for displaying a pro-women message
Toronto police have just hit our billboard truck with two fines totalling $1,230 for playing a video defending women’s sports.
Our driver Mark was parked right outside the WNBA game in downtown Toronto. The truck’s massive screens were running a public service announcement featuring Serena Williams and Martina Navratilova explaining a simple biological fact: no matter how talented a female athlete is, men are stronger.
Police swarmed the truck, ordered Mark to turn the video off, and claimed it was illegal for him to play that ad. They issued a $615 ticket on the spot. Not for any traffic offence, but purely for the content. When Mark put one of the officers on the phone with me, the cop repeated the same absurd claim: that it’s illegal to show a video on a truck.
That’s not the law. That’s censorship. And it’s a clear vendetta against Rebel News driven by an extremist pro-transgender ideology that prioritises men over women and girls in sport.
Minutes later police issued a second $615 fine, bringing the total to $1,230, and threatened more tickets if the video stayed on. This follows an earlier incident just weeks ago when police stopped the same truck and investigated it for “hate speech” over a similar message.
We are covering every cent of these fines. Mark will not pay a dollar. We will fight both tickets in court to defend our freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
I'm heading down there right now to stand with Mark. If necessary, I will take over the truck myself so our driver does not have to face further harassment.
This has to stop.
If you believe police should not be fining independent media for telling the truth about sex and sport, please stand with us and help defend the truck at https://t.co/JvxjQgJXeU.
REPORT by @ezralevant:
- How many names?
- Who are the names?
- What was the criteria to be placed on the list?
- Which federal agency ordered and illegally compiled it?
- Which federal agency illegally shared it?
- Which organizations received it?
- What was the criteria in order to be a recipient of the list?
- What was the desired outcome vs end result of sharing the list?
- Which organizations still have access to it?