Toronto’s homicide rate is now higher than New York’s;

With just days to go before the halfway point of 2018, Toronto Police have confirmed at least 48 homicides within the city since January 1. That’s more than double the 23 we’d seen last year at this point.
 
Five people were killed last weekend alone — four of them by guns — prompting both Police Chief Mark Saunders and Mayor John Tory to express public concern over a recent spike in shooting deaths.

When the voters don’t like you, change the voters:

In California, what used to be a purple state, now out of 53 congressional seats, only seven are Republican … [Democrats] have seen how that strategy of importation of foreign voters has worked. They’re trying to do it in Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, in every state where they can possibly do it. They want to flood the voting booths with people who are dependent on welfare and who do not understand the principles that have made us a great nation. That’s how they change the voter pool and they’re doing it successfully.

If the voters don’t like your policies, change the voters: Dividing Canada into vote banks, one tribe at a time

Speaking to participants in a conference marking World Refugee Day on Thursday, Hussen acknowledged that Canada cannot resettle every refugee in the world.

But he’s going to give it his best shot.

The Eerily Accurate Predictions of Cyberpunk 2020

Curfew in Sri Lanka as anti-Muslim violence grows in response to the Easter bombings;

A Muslim man was stabbed to death while rioters torched Muslim-owned shops and vandalised mosques during Monday’s attacks. […]
 
– In the north-western town of Kiniyama, hundreds of people stormed a mosque, destroying windows and doors and burning Korans, according to witnesses
 
– In the Catholic-majority town of Chilaw, Muslim-owned shops and mosques were attacked after a dispute that started on Facebook, police said
 
– A man died from stab wounds after a mob attacked his business in Puttalam District, also in Sri Lanka’s north-west
 
– Incidents were reported in the town of Hettipola, where at least three shops were reportedly torched
 
– A large pasta factory was burned near Minuwangoda, with the owners accusing police of standing by while employees were trapped inside

The always helpful United Nations is calling for calm.