The Montreal Shooting: Another Flashpoint in a Country That Pretends It’s Immune

• Officer and civilian killed
• Suspect dead
• Alberta origin
• long gun used
• Côte‑des‑Neiges location

 Emerging reporting is that he was an 'incel'‑aligned extremist with a manifesto

Montreal woke up Monday expecting another humid June afternoon. Instead, the city absorbed one of its most jarring public‑safety shocks in decades: a police officer, a civilian, and the gunman himself dead after a rapid, violent confrontation in Côte‑des‑Neiges, near De Courtrai and Trans‑Island avenues . It unfolded in daylight, in a dense neighbourhood, and with a level of intent that police sources immediately described as targeted.

The Mystery of William Colby: A Life Lived in the Shadows

How a master of secrecy became an unlikely reformer

He left behind a death as enigmatic as his career. The life of William Colby was mystery, a life lived in the shadows, an ending lost in them too.

William E. Colby remains one of the most paradoxical figures in American intelligence history — a man who spent decades mastering secrecy, only to become, in his final years, a surprising apostle of transparency. His life reads like a Cold War novel: clandestine operations, moral ambiguities, bureaucratic battles, and a death that still invites speculation

Now For Something Completely Insane

RIP 

Things are a little strange in Canada when it comes to killers, and it gets stranger when you turn to psychopathic killers who are practically bestial in their carnage only to walk away with barely a wink of an eye in the way of retribution. Pickton confessed on the sly to killing 50 but gets convicted of six, gets lots of encouragement to appeal, and why not? He's got nothing but time (you might wish).