- A man opened fire on parishioners at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan on Sunday, and set fire to the building. Four people were killed before the suspect was shot to death by police. He was a veteran of the Iraq war, and social media pictures show him wearing a "Trump 2020" shirt, something that will doubtless be downplayed by the authorities.
- Russia launched a barrage of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people. The attack on Kyiv was one of the one of the biggest since the full-scale invasion began. Among the buildings hit was a cardiology clinic; one could be forgiven for questioning whether that constitutes a legitimate military target.
- Winnipeg mayor Scott Gillingham is asking Transit to look into the cost of extending late night bus service. Of the numerous complaints about the changes to Transit's network, many relate to reductions in service towards the end of the day, when some people still have to get home from work.
- US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is musing about doing away with preclearance at Canadian airports. Hoekstra says that the decline in tourism from Canada calls into question whether it's worth the expense; Canadian airlines and airport authorities are wondering what will happen to cross-border ticket sales if preclearance is eliminated. Some folks in this Reddit thread think that the real motivation is to boost the number of immigration-related detentions, either for propaganda purposes or to funnel money to the private companies who run the detention facilities. Viewed that way it kind of makes sense; if someone is deemed inadmissable during preclearance, they're still in Canada and can't be hauled off to Alligator Alcatraz or similar facilities.
- Several FBI agents who were photographed kneeling at a protest about the murder of George Floyd in 2020 have been fired by the agency. They say they did this as a deescalation tactic, but photos of this naturally drew the ire of the far right at the time. Their conduct had been reviewed by the agency and they had been cleared, but the new regime was evidently not satisfied with this and wanted them gone.
- Proposals for bail reform in Manitoba are running up against an awkward reality - the fact that the province's jails are already overcrowded and understaffed, and that about 75% of the people incarcerated in these institutions are on remand. Presumably what's really needed is to speed up the court process so people aren't on remand for so long, but that's easier said than done, given that the slow pace of justice in this country has been the subject of discussion for decades with no signs of progress. I'd think hiring more prosecutors would be a start, though.
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