Police say a white van has struck numerous pedestrians in Toronto.
The incident happened at the busy intersection of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue, according to the Toronto Police Service. Initial estimates suggest eight to 10 people were struck.
Witness Alex Shaker, who was driving southbound at the time, says the van was travelling at high speed on the sidewalk.
Subway has been ordered shut down by police. Developing…
UPDATE: Driver of van that struck 8 to 10 people in Toronto has been found and is in custody, Canadian authorities say pic.twitter.com/4dwAbARuh5
— EAGLE WINGS (@RealEagleWings) April 23, 2018
Update: 9 dead, 16 injured
Mayor John Tory stresses “unity”, so take from that what you will.
Update: Driver identified as Alek Minassian.
Relax folks Rolf Goodyear is on this. He stepped up on the riser… (Rolf is a solid 5 footer) to address the press on the governments position.
We’re in good hands. These things don’t happen in Canada…..
PM 69IQ will don his pretty thokths and inthpeckt thith diverthity thoon. Don’t worry folks, thunny ways, were in good hands.
….IN CANADISTAN, YOU ARE INNOCENT EVEN IF PROVEN GUILTY…WHEN YOU ARE A MOOSLIM SCUM!
has the Turdough written out the 10.5 million dollar check yet????
Menassian sounds like an Armenian name, therefore probably a Christian.
However, I am sure there are muslim converts there, surrounded for a 1000 years by them.
Also, there is a lot going on in Armenia at the present. So, not yet willing to conclude anything but it is strange how all these perps happen to be “known to the authoritied”.
there are Armenian muslims, they need not be “converts”
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, who was at a gathering of G7 ministers in Toronto, said shortly after 4 p.m. that Toronto Police remained the lead investigators.
Goodale added that the National Terrorism Threat Level has not changed. It is currently “Muslim,” which means a violent act of terrorism could occur.
Sorry that should read “Medium”
If the perp was previously known to authorities as a terror risk there should be some background coming out. Any bets on what ideology contributed to his behaviour? Edmonton was pretty much ignored by the liberal media and now another vehicle attack at what’s pretty much ground zero for Canada’s progressives. Another attack’s coming – only a question of when. Will “Just-Not” ever be “Ready” to do the job of Canada’s top leader and keep us all safe?
I look forward to Justin Trudeau weeping emotionally as he presents a cheque for $10M to this poor misunderstood lad sorely mistreated by Canada and Canadians.
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apparently, ol’ alek was taking the
(thus far… 2011-2018)… 7 year
college degree at seneca college.
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“Minassian meaning”
“Origin: Iran
Meaning: Armenian name formed with the suffix -ian (marking the descent) on Minas, personal name that seems native of leads Greek (= moon).’
“Minassian is common in Iran country(ies).”
http://www.nameslist.org/surname/Minassian
With respect to the arresting officer.
I am in awe that the officer did blow the a holes head off when a hole motioned as if he had a gun. That cop didn’t give the tu@d the satisfaction or easy out and notoriety his death would have garnered. Any one of us would when confronting the tu@d would have pulled the trigger out of fear or rage. That officer had his sh1t wired so tight he stared the jackass down till he dropped his weapon.
Give that guy a medal for bravery.
There is that. In N.Ireland we were constantly reminded that although a dead terrorist was not a bad outcome, capturing them so they could be convicted of their criminal violence was believed to hurt their political cause more.
If I’d been facing Mr Minassian when he claimed to have a gun in his pocket I’d be tempted to take him at his word and without him having specified which, shoot him between the pockets.
We are right around the time frame of the Anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Could be a factor in sending this guy over the top:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/armenian-genocide-103-anniversary-1.4630937
I read somewhere that he is from Syria (Aleppo) — would have to verify. There are Armenians in Syria. I believe some fled to Syria at the time of the original genocide.
I think Aleppo was on the Turkish genocidal route-march.
So, he was a Syrian “refugee”? That will still the Boy Wonder
CBC a few minutes ago bravely confirmed the name of the perp, first identified about 2 hours ago by CBS. The ID was also on NBC, the UK press just about everywhere except home.
Why exactly with a $1.1 B subsidy, armies of reporters. technicians and other personnel, CBC can’t quite deliver current news in their on their own doorstep? For most of the time they were rebroadcasting comments from the hapless Goodale (lets not jump to call this terror), and other politicos. No investigating, no background story nothing really, Canadians are forced to get sound reporting from abroad, or from the net.
What had to be confirmed about the perp’s name? Police ID him why can’t viewers share that knowledge? All local media were reluctant to name a person who murdered 9 people? Sorry cannot say that either.
It is obvious there needs to be much tighter controls on vans – in particular white assault vans . As well any person owning a firearm should have strict restrictions or possibly jail time as he said he was carrying a gun ! It shouldn’t take much more than 6 months to determine the cause . Or Justin may enlighten us .
Someone said that the evil WHITE van was an automatic with a high capacity gas tank, apparently easily picked up at local auctions in Canada by ANYONE!
This is what our boy Trudeau calls diversity and “diversity is our strength”. He’s still letting in “irregulars”, we really have no clue who they really are. Another term of Trudeau Goodale and all the other twits of little or no competence comprising the government of Canada and we will be well on our way to shit hole status.
Hate to break it to you Liz J, but today’s tragedy is not the first step “on our way to shit hole status” we passed that marker years ago when they pushed the “multiculturalism” and “diversity is our strength”. It was only a matter of time till this happened and as we have seen all over the globe it will not be the last or the most horrific. Until we deal in a significant manner with terrorism we are going to be on the receiving end of untold more attacks.
The newscasts are reading out literal Chad/Stacy 4chan post from his faceberg account. FML.
yup. Every few years the main stream media rediscovers that 4chan or 8chan exists and freaks out.
That is the thing about it; when your group is responsible for like 90% of all terror worldwide, people gonna start making assumptions as soon as they hear any bad news. If you don’t like that, then you fix your group.
Damn Lutherans. What, not Lutherans? Damn Quakers. What? Damn Hindus. Not them either?
Why is nobody asking important questions, like what kind of filter are we supposed to put on our avatars?
Je suis Moronto!
I watched a Canadian news broadcast at 6 and they were not saying anything about the killer’s identity, although they did have footage of Ralph Goodale reassuring everyone that the attack was not terror-related. I switched over to NBC news at 6:30 and they not only identified the perp – giving his name and age – but also saying they got the information from US law enforcement. Now why would a Canadian college student be on US law enforcement’s radar?
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“LinkedIn shows this to be Alek Manassian but it is apparently NOT the van driver.
A different Minassian is fighting back on his Facebook page and saying that he is not the same Minassian who is responsible for the attack.”
http://jewishbreakingnews.com/2018/04/23/watch-alek-minassian-identified-man-killed-9-van-toronto/
Poor guy. What an awful situation! He’ll be wanting to change his name.
Unme hasn’t commented all day?
hope he wasn’t arrested or anything today… sayin’
Sounds like he was just mad at the world because he couldn’t get laid. Sorry guys, I know how you all wanted it to be an Islamic act.
Sorry guys, I know how you all wanted it to be an Islamic act.
Sorry guy, you’re on the wrong blog site.
Heh, and now we know how easily duped you are and how much you want to virtue signal.
This post has aged well.
A couple of interviews from bystanders, at The Rebel:
https://www.therebel.media/eyewitnesses_describe_toronto_van_attack_it_was_crazy
CBC are connecting this guy with a group, self named, ” incel “. Stands for ” involuntarily celibate ” .
Which, by this groups own definition, can’t pickup women and aren’t getting any SEX.
Never heard of this before today, special group for everybody,,,I guess.
“Stacys” is the name given to women that won’t have sex with the incels.
“Chads” is the name given to the men that get to have sex with the women that the incels can’t.
Hate to link the cbc, but if you want to read about this here it is;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-van-attack-driver-profile-alek-minassian-1.4632435
I’m thinking they possibly got trolled by 4chan. It’s exactly the kind of narrative they could run with….lone misogynist etc…
there’s no doubt about it!
So CBC is blaming blue balls for his rage….
Think again CBC. Quit trying to dig so deep that you miss the truth.
This is labelled as a terrorist attack. Known to LE. Why was the subway shut down??
Defund the CBC. They are decades past the best before date.
So glad you have restrictive gun control, so no mass murders.
So, why, exactly, do the people of Saskatchewan continue to send Mr. Goodale to Parliament?
He had one job, in the current administration, and he failed at it.
With great certainty, I can say that folks in Ontario have doubted their safety for some time now.
What to wear to the Virtue Vigil?
Tim’s wearing a burka, just in case you’re worried about wearing the same outfit.
At times of such a massacre, such an atrocity, such malevolence, such evil, my emotive response to recall a time when Western Civilization rose up in righteous defence, inspired by the relevant beatitude:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God- sermon on the mount, Matthew 5:9
When the Winged Hussars Arrived -Sabaton, and do we ever need them now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ
Canadians, have to realize that “We stand on guard for thee.” is a responsibility, an oath of allegiance.
Make it so.
Love that tune, also this is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U9lVjZg-Kg (vid not mathing the text but came out quite goo).
When will the Alek Minassian receive his $10 million from Justin Trudeau? Or does Trudeau only reward terrorists who kill Americans?
I have a new theory. I wonder if there is a possibility that the guy is using a phony name. How do the police know who he is? Driver’s license, I would guess. What if the licence was stolen or otherwise is fake? We need to know more, but I suspect they will bury this as much as possible. He will disappear and we will hear again from him 18 months down the line when the incident is largely forgotten and eye-witness memories have faded.
Crude inappropriate joke alert.
Imagine if you will and, as happened in PQ, the scumbag was shot down by the cops.
Investigator: Constable Bloggins, I understand this violent psycohpath was a lethal threat to the public and you, given he said he had a gun and had already committed murder, so you are cleared on shooting him.
We note also you shot him three times, but again we understand lethal force was required in this instance.
Just one question though, why did you shoot him three times in the n**s?
Worst vehicular mass assault in Canadian history, and the moment y’all determine that it was committed by someone who WASN’T Muslim, y’all lose interest.
Shame on the lot of you.
I jumped to that conclusion( which is understandable) but I am still interested on the final details of why and confirmation
that it was just a mentally ill person.