- The Ontario government has added a provision to their anti-bike lane legislation that would grant the province and municipalities immunity from any civil lawsuits if deaths or injuries result from the legislation. The fact that they're taking the time and effort to do this strongly suggests that they expect that harm will occur from the policy.
- The guy who pulled a U-turn in front of an LRT train in Kitchener has been charged with careless driving, making an unsafe turn, and driving while using a hand-held communication device. This last charge, if nothing else, makes his actions a bit more explicable. He'd better hope he has enough liability insurance to cover the damage to the train; I could see that being fairly expensive.
- A jury in Fergus Falls, Minnesota has found two men guilty of human smuggling charges arising from the deaths of a family who attempted to cross the border from Manitoba in early 2022.
- Philippines vice-president Sara Duterte stated publicly that she has contracted an assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the event that she herself is killed. I daresay that this sort of thing is not a sign of a healthy political culture.
- A Winnipeg Transit supervisor called to eject a man from a city bus was attacked with an improvised flamethrower (a lighter and a can of hairspray). The supervisor escaped injury and the attacker was arrested.
- A semi truck fell off an overpass onto a train on the tracks below, derailing the train and injuring the truck driver.
- A woman in Blandford, Nova Scotia was shocked to find that the dogsitter she'd hired to take care of her pets used her home to make dirty videos for the OnlyFans website.
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