Poilievre calls for U.S. trade results, not concessions; the disturbing trends behind Not Criminally Responsible rulings; and more
- Poilievre criticizes a strategy of making multiple concessions before entering negotiations.
- Investigative Journalism Bureau analysis highlights healthcare system failures, the role of cannabis in mental health crises, and the disproportionate targeting of women, especially mothers, in NCR cases.
- Hamm was barred from attending an event meant for open and honest Q&A, raising concerns about cancel culture and truth suppression.
- A judge acknowledged harsh conditions at Maplehurst Detention Centre, granting sentence mitigation for the inmate’s difficult incarceration experience.
It’s Thursday, August 6. Here are the top stories we’re following today.
“I don’t understand the strategy of making concession after concession after concession before even getting to the negotiating table,” Poilievre said.
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An analysis of NCR cases by the Investigative Journalism Bureau reveals three major themes: repeated failures by the health-care system to act in the face of persistent red flags before the killings took place; the conspicuous role of cannabis as a unique driver of the mental-health crises that result in fatal violence; and the disproportionate targeting of women — especially mothers — who are killed after making repeated pleas to health-care workers to help their mentally ill child.
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“This is your chance to get your questions answered — yes, even the tough ones. We won’t cancel you. Instead, we’ll give you our honest takes,” read a description of the event. But Hamm’s ticket was revoked and she was barred from entering. “(The organizers) can turn all their critics away at the door,” she writes. “They’re not doing themselves any favours, though, because the truth itself can never be cancelled.”
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“He served 44 days of his sentence in lockdown at the Maplehurst Detention Centre. He was also triple bunked for 49 days. He is entitled to mitigation of his sentence for that fact. The terrible conditions of incarceration which persist at that institution are all too well known,” the judge wrote in his decision.
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The woman was charged with the fraudulent use of personal information, giving a false name to deputies and not having a valid driver’s licence. Police say of the dozen fake IDs, 11 were Pennsylvania driver’s licences, one was from Georgia and all of them “contained the same photograph of the defendant, but each with different names and birthdays.”
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When it comes to its forests, Canada has a scale problem: it has far more forest, fewer people, and remote boreal areas where lightning-started fires can be nearly impossible to reach. But the experts say that even if Canada is able to start managing its forests properly, with rising temperatures “we are going to be living with more and more fire.”
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